2-22-2013 Friday Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22 D1 SOFTBALL

ESPN USA Softball Poll Week 2

1.  Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. Arizona State
4. Tennessee
5. Florida
6. Texas
7. Missouri
8. California
9. Texas A&M
10. LSU
11. Oregon
12. Louisiana-Lafayette
13. UCLA
14. South Florida
15. Michigan
16. Georgia
17. Stanford
18. Louisville
19. Arizona
20. Kentucky
21. Hawaii
22. Washington
23. Florida State
24. Tulsa
25. Baylor

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Six teams ranked in the ESPN USA Softball poll were defeated Friday.  Fourth ranked Tennessee lost twice; 5th ranked Florida lost to 6th ranked Missouri, and 16th ranked Georgia fell twice.  Florida State (#23) lost to #22 Washington, and 19th ranked Arizona also lost.  Top ranked Oklahoma survived two close encounters. Last game of the night, #17 Stanford was upset by Oklahoma State.

Florida 5, Syracuse 1
WP Bache.  LP Kuwik.  Gators scored one in 1^st aided by an error, the added 2 in 4thon Stewart’s triple.  Two walks led to two runs in 5^th.  Syracuse scored on a sac fly in the 7^th.

Florida State 15, LIU 1 (5)
WP Perry. 2H, 8K.  LP Vondrak.  Seminoles scored 7 in 3^rd, 1 in 4^th, 7 more in 5^th. bFourteen hits included 5 rbi by Hensley on 3 hits inc homer, Senas 3 rbi inc homer.

Cal Poly 1, Georgia 0
WP Wurst.  LP Glasco.  In 5^th, Cal Poly loaded bases on single, walk, single; with 2 out, Gerhart drew the rbi walk.

Northwestern 3, Georgia Tech 2
WP Lamberth.  LP Rush.  All runs scored in 7^th.  Top: Rudnik and Rush had rbi’s.  Bottom: Scharkey knocked in a run, Bast drove in the tying and winning runs.

Northwestern 3, Georgia Tech 2
WP Lamberth.  LP Rush.  All runs scored in 7^th.  Top: Rudnik and Rush had rbi’s.  Bottom: Scharkey knocked in a run, Bast drove in the tying and winning runs.

Missouri 4, Florida 3 (12)
WP Thomas  LP Rogers.  Both teams scored single runs in the 11^th.  In the 12^th, bases loaded, 2 out, Hudson drove in the winning run for #7 to defeat #5.  Moore had a solo HR for the Tigers; Hudson drove in 2 runs; Crane one run.  Gator rbi’s included Gammel with 2.

Oregon State (6) Nevada 5 (11)
WP Demore.  LP Jones.  The Beavers scored 3 runs bottom 4^th; Nevada scored 4 in top 4^th for a lead, until OSU tied with a run bottom 6^th.  The teams traded runs in the 8^th.  Oregon State scored the winner  with two out, bottom 11^th.  Jones and Butera homered for Nevada; Cavestany was 2-3 with 2rbiand HR.Kutz had 3 rbi for OSU.

Utah 7, Colorado State 3
WP Amu.  LP McCarthy.  Leading 3-2 after 6, Utes scored 4 runs in 7^th.For Utah, Hoopiaaina had 2 rbi; Dickman 2, Mendenhall 1 (solo), Pacheco 1, Ramirez 1.  Wikre had a solo shot; Rodriguez had 2 rbi.

Northwestern 3, Tennessee 2
“WP Letourneau.  LP Tarango.Wildcats broke 2-2 tie with run bottom 6^th.  Letourneau held the #4 Vols to 4 hits.  Edwards led the victory drive in the 6^th with a double.  DiPrima singled, and runners moved on an error.  Blast drove in the first NU runs with a 2-run homer.  Gibson homered for Tennessee.

Washington 2, Florida State 0
WP Walker.  LP Waldrop.  The Huskies scored both runs bottom 2nd; Fagaly and Souza scoring.

Stanford 6, Georgia 0
WP Stevens.  LP Montemayor,  Stevens limited  the #16 Bulldogs to 4 hits in sending them down to their second defeat of the day.  The #17 Cardinal scored a single run in the 2^nd, then 5 runs in the 5^th.  Hassman hit a 3-run HR for Stanford; Winter also had an rbi.

 

Oklahoma 5, UCSB  2
WP Gasoigne.  LP Wisdom.  Keilani Ricketts relieved for 2+ innings after Gascoigne, who had 11 Ks to that point, had loaded the bases.  Chamberlain led off the game with her 37th career homer.  Williams was 3-3 with 2 rbi. Martinez and Turang also had rbi’s.  Wisdom drove in both UCSB runs.

 

LSU 7, Ohio State 0 (Fico no-hitter)
WP Rachele Fico no-hitter.  LP O’Reilly.  Fico walked two and hit one batter, three short of a perfect game.  LSU took charge witha 4-run 2nd.  In the game, Kloss had a solo HR; Bell had 2 rbi on 2 hits; Simmons and Andrews had rbi.

BYU 5, UNLV 3
WP Howell.  LP DePippo.  UNLV scored three runs off Almond.  UNLV held a 3-1 lead thru four innings but BYU tallied 3 top 6th and a final run in the 7th.  Bravo, Shamo-Hudson and Arnold had rbi hits for BYU.  Aleman, Harrison and Monreal drove in the UNLV runs.

 

UCL A 2,Tennessee 0
WP Carda. 2H,6K. LP Ellen Renfroe.  Stung earlier by Northwestern, the #4 Vols never got their offense untracked, racking just two hits off Carda.  One  would-be homer was snagged at the center field fence by Bennett.  UCLA scored both runs bottom 1st; Goulder walked and was doubled in by LaRosa, who then scored on an error.  As might be expected in a very close game, tensions ran high, and UT co-head coach Ralph Weekly was ejected. Rookie Paige MDuffie pitched the last 2 innings for the Bruins and gave up no hits.  Today was Olympian assistant coach Lisa Hernandez’ birthday.  Happy!

 

 

Washington 15,  Illinois 0 (5)
WP Inglesby.  LP Gay.  The Huskies put this game away with 9 runs bottom 1st.  They added 3 in the 3rd, 3 in the 4th.  Lahners had 5 rbi, including a homer; Inglesby had 4 rbi on 2 hits; Wright had 2 rbi; Hayward, Braun, Souza, and Jones one each.

Oklahoma 2, Nebraska 0
WP Ricketts  LP Edwards.  Unranked Nebraska’s Edwards held the vaunted Sooner machine hitless until the top 7^th.  OU had loaded the bases without a hit in the 5^th but, on a 3-2 count, Pendley looked at a third strike.  Meanwhile, Ricketts had limited Nebraska t 3 hits, surviving the Huskers biggest threat with a double play.  Top 7^th, Turang broke up the no-hit bid with a single.  Chamberlain and Casey walked, loading the bases.  Shults slashed a double past first base, driving in two runs.  Ricketts hit a fielder’s choice, putting Casey out.  Pendley hit into a 1-2-5-2-4 double play.  Nowit was up to Ricketts to preserve the Sooners unbeaten streak, and she set the Huskers down in order.

LSU 6, UNLV 1
WP Czechner, 4H, 8K.  LP Foti.  The Tigers had a 2-1 lead, going into the 6th, when LSU scored 4 runs.  Blades had 2 rbi on 3 for 4 hitting; Alcaraz had 2 rbi on 3 for 3 hitting; Falcon also had an rbi.

Cal 8, Georgia Tech 0 (6)
WP Jolene Henderson one-hitter.  LP Clifton.  Henderson faced the minimum 18 batters.Jones drove in 3 runs; Kostreba, Ziegenhirt, Danielle and Jolene Henderson 1 rbi each; Wallace one rbi.

Arizona 0, Ohio State 6
WP DiDomenico  LP Pinon.  The unranked Buckeyes scored twice top 1st, added a run in the 4th, and 3 in the 5th.  Watkins hit a solo for OSU.  Pranti drove in 2 runs; Coletta and Pickett one each.

Oregon State 5, Illinois 1
Unranked Beavers 10th consecutive win.

Oregon 13,  Virginia 0 (5)

SDSU 3, Syracuse 0

Nebraska 8,  Maryland 1

Arizona 5, Loyola Marymount 0

Oklahoma State 4, Stanford 1