Saturday, April 26
Long Beach, CA
UC Riverside
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UCR Drops Two One-Run Games At Long Beach State University
12/17/2008 7:46:30 PM | Softball
The UC Riverside softball team (18-31, 4-10) traveled to 17th ranked Long Beach State University Saturday afternoon, dropping two tightly contested one-run decisions to the 49ers, 2-1 and 4-3.
Amanda Klimczak got the start in game one for the Highlanders drawing the unenviable assignment of going against Long Beach State's Brooke Turner – she of the 0.68 era and the 21-4 record. But Klimczak matched Turner pitch for pitch throughout much of the game giving up just one run on three hits through six innings. Turner also limited the Highlanders to three hits and one run – an RBI single off Cassie Greenawalt's bat that scored Veronica "Roni" Yee.
Turner continued to dominate the UC Riverside bats in the seventh retiring them in order. Kilmczak came out for her seventh inning of work trying to send the game into extra innings, but a single, and a walk put runners on first and second with one out. Brooke LeSage's single scored Jessica Beaver with the winning run.
Christin Songer took to the circle in game two and found herself down 2-1 after the first inning before finding her groove retiring the 49ers in order in the second and allowing a single baserunner in the third. In the meantime, Marissa Alvidrez, whose last homer came on April 6, drilled a Bridgette Pagano offering over the leftfield fence scoring Yee and giving the Highlanders a 3-2 advantage. The homerun was Alvidrez' 10th of the season tying the school record originally set by Melissa Sanchez in 2006.
Songer couldn't hold on to the lead, however, as Lacy Tyler led off the bottom of the fourth with a single and Pagano followed with a two-run homer to left. That score held up into the seventh as the Highlanders mounted a final rally in the top half of the inning. Alvidrez reached second with one out on a two-base error by 49ers leftfielder Tyler, but Pagano struck out Katie Curtis and Greenawalt to end the game.
UCR and Long Beach State square off again on Sunday, April 27 for a single game beginning at 1 p.m. PT.
Amanda Klimczak got the start in game one for the Highlanders drawing the unenviable assignment of going against Long Beach State's Brooke Turner – she of the 0.68 era and the 21-4 record. But Klimczak matched Turner pitch for pitch throughout much of the game giving up just one run on three hits through six innings. Turner also limited the Highlanders to three hits and one run – an RBI single off Cassie Greenawalt's bat that scored Veronica "Roni" Yee.
Turner continued to dominate the UC Riverside bats in the seventh retiring them in order. Kilmczak came out for her seventh inning of work trying to send the game into extra innings, but a single, and a walk put runners on first and second with one out. Brooke LeSage's single scored Jessica Beaver with the winning run.
Christin Songer took to the circle in game two and found herself down 2-1 after the first inning before finding her groove retiring the 49ers in order in the second and allowing a single baserunner in the third. In the meantime, Marissa Alvidrez, whose last homer came on April 6, drilled a Bridgette Pagano offering over the leftfield fence scoring Yee and giving the Highlanders a 3-2 advantage. The homerun was Alvidrez' 10th of the season tying the school record originally set by Melissa Sanchez in 2006.
Songer couldn't hold on to the lead, however, as Lacy Tyler led off the bottom of the fourth with a single and Pagano followed with a two-run homer to left. That score held up into the seventh as the Highlanders mounted a final rally in the top half of the inning. Alvidrez reached second with one out on a two-base error by 49ers leftfielder Tyler, but Pagano struck out Katie Curtis and Greenawalt to end the game.
UCR and Long Beach State square off again on Sunday, April 27 for a single game beginning at 1 p.m. PT.
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