MAY 2 2003
COMMITMENTS
Allie Kauffman, C/OF, Absolute Blast WA, signed Central
Washington Univ
Christine “Beanie” Wagner, C, Fairfax VA Firebirds,
signed Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
COLLEGE SCORES
Big 12 Tournament
Texas
Tech 5,
Kansas
1 (Thursday)
Baylor 3,
Iowa
State 0 (Thursday)
Texas
7,
Texas
Tech 1 (Thursday)
Oklahoma
State
8, Baylor 0 (Thursday)
Oklahoma
4,
Texas
A&M 0 (9)
Texas
A&M 2,
Texas
Tech 0
Nebraska
5,
Missouri
0
Texas
1,
Oklahoma
0
Baylor 5,
Missouri
0
Oklahoma
State
1,
Nebraska
0 (9)
Top 25 Teams
UCLA 4,
Oregon
3
Arizona
State
1, Stanford 0
Other College
Teams
Villanova 7-6; Notre Dame 3-0 (split)
Hawaii
def Louisiana Tech 6-3, 8-3 (Melissa
Coogan wins both games)
UC Davis def
San Francisco
State
1-0, 9-2
South Dakota
2,
Northern Colorado
1
Siena
def
Niagara
6-0, 7-2
New Mexico
def UNLV 3-2, 1-0
San Diego
State
2-1;
Colorado
State
1-0 (split) (
San Diego
wins Mountain West crown)
Yale def Brown 8-6, 4-2
Fordham def St Bonaventure 5-2, 11-5
Rhode Island
def George Washington 7-0, 8-1
Utah
4, UC Riverside 1 (Niki Hayhurst homer)
Sacred Heart def Fairleigh Dickinson 5-0, 5-1
Bowling Green 5,
Eastern Michigan
1
Georgia Tech 2, Auburn 0
Texas-Arlington 3, Sam Houston State 2 (opening round of Southland tournament)
Wisconsin 7-3;
Green Bay
4-3 (split Thursday)
Game Notes: Big
12 Tournament
Oklahoma
notched the 1,000th win in the program's history in dramatic fashion Friday
afternoon. OU ace Kami
Keiter blasted a grand slam over the right field wall in the bottom of the
ninth inning as the Sooners jolted No. 20 Texas A&M, 4-0, in the Big 12
Tournament at ASA Hall of Stadium in
Oklahoma City
.
Keiter also recorded the win from the mound with
seven strikeouts in a complete game for OU to improve to 27-5 on the season. The
Sooners (39-10) move on to play No. 1-seed
Texas
at
5:30 p.m.
Friday afternoon. Texas A&M fell to 34-19 as
Lindsey Wilhelmson dropped to 16-6. Wilhelmson pitched a complete game for the
Aggies despite absorbing two line drives back up the box.
The teams battled into extra innings before OU
finally took the game on Keiter's screamer. The Sooners had five hits in the
game with Kristin
Vesely (2-for-4) and Christina
Enea (2-for-3) accounting for the rest of the
Oklahoma
offense. Texas A&M scattered seven hits but
stranded nine runners on base in the loss. OU left six on base.
Christina
Enea hit her fifth double of the season to lead off the ninth inning for OU.
Pinch runner Lori
Shimasaki replaced Enea on second while Jennifer
Stump drew a walk and was replaced at first by pinch runner Tiffany
Weight. Erin
Evans grounded out to third base for OU's first out but pushed Shimasaki to
third and Weight to second. Sophomore catcher Heather
Scaglione then walked to load the bases for the Sooners and Keiter stepped
up to the plate. On a 2-1 count,
Keiter's grand slam beat the Aggies for the third time this season and moved
Oklahoma
to 30-19 all-time in the series. OU also improved to
21-9 all-time in the Big 12 Tournament.
The Sooners return to Hall of Fame Stadium at
5:30
Friday afternoon to spar with No. 1-seed
Texas
. The Longhorns won the 2003 Big 12 regular season
title and dismissed Texas Tech, 7-1, last night in the opening round of the
tournament.
Oklahoma
is 4-1 all-time against
Texas
in the Big 12 Tournament.
Nebraska
scored
three runs in the fifth inning and added two in the seventh to advance in the
Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Tournament with a 5-0 win over
Missouri
. The game started out as a pitcher's duel between
Nebraska
's Peaches James and
Missouri
's Erin Kalka. Both hurlers had no hitter's through
four innings.
NU's Sheena Lawrick started the fifth inning with a solo home run, her fourth of
the season. The Huskers then mounted a two-out rally when Nicole Trimboli hit a
two run triple scoring Anne Steffan and Kim Ogee who had walked earlier.
Nebraska
added two runs in the top of the seventh when Amanda
Buchholz hit a two-run home run off
Missouri
reliever Samantha Fleeman. Buchholz drove in Ogee who
walked to lead off the frame. James
went five innings, gave up two hits, and struck out five to improve to 21-9 on
the season. Kalka fell to 19-11, despite giving up just three hits.
Nebraska
will play No. 2 Oklahoma State Friday at
3 p.m.
Missouri
faces No. 10 Baylor in an elimination game Friday at
3 p.m.
Texas
defeated
Oklahoma
1-0
Friday evening in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Tournament at ASA Hall of Fame
Stadium in
Oklahoma City
on a solo home run by Chez Sievers in the fourth
inning and 15 Ks by Catherine Osterman. The
Sooners (39-11) suffered their first loss of the tournament and will move on to
play Baylor at 10 a.m. on Saturday in the elimination game.
Texas
improved to 41-7 on the season and won its third game
over the Sooners this season. The Longhorns swept OU in
Austin
during the regular season and moved to 2-4 against
the Sooners in Big 12 Tournament action with the win.
Longhorn pitcher Cat Osterman (24-4) fanned 15
batters without a walk and gave up just one hit. OU leftfielder Jessica
Leslie (1-for-3) singled through the left side in the seventh inning to ruin
the no-hitter for Osterman. All but two Sooner batters struck out at least once.
For
Oklahoma
, Kami
Keiter struck out three batters without issuing a walk but dropped to 27-6
with the loss. Keiter gave up just three hits and the home run.
Down 1-0,
Oklahoma
attempted a rally in the seventh. After Leslie's
single to lead off the inning, Leah
Gulla fouled out to
Texas
catcher Marlo Hanks. April
Valdez struck out swinging and Osterman appeared to have the Sooners' next
batter, Jennifer
Stump, in the same situation. But in Stump's final swing, the ball got away
from Hanks and Stump made it to first on the passed ball as Leslie dashed to
third. With runners on the wings, Cat Osterman struck out Kelli
Braitsch to seal the win for
Texas
.
Oklahoma
State
’s Megan Carey hit two
home runs on Thursday as
Oklahoma
State
's softball team defeated Baylor, 8-0, at Don Porter ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in
Oklahoma City
. Carey got the Cowgirls off to a quick start, going yard for the seventh time
this season in the bottom of the first. Calli Behmer doubled then rounded the
bases on Carey’s two-run bomb to left center.
Oklahoma
State
exploded for four runs in the fifth on four hits and
one Baylor error. Back-to-back doubles from Jade Lindly and Stephanie Nicholson
pushed the first run home. Calli Behmer then drew the walk and Ashleigh Tweed
entered as a courtesy runner.
Tweed
and Nicholson stole second and third to set up Ryan
Realmuto’s RBI single. Baylor then intentionally walked Bay and an error
allowed Siebel to reach first and Realmuto to score. Stephanie Hodges plated the
final run with a single to center field to bring Bay home. Carey
then ended the game just as she started, producing a two-run walk off home run
just inside foul territory down the left field line.
The homer gave the Cowgirls the mercy-rule win,
their first ever in the Big 12 Tournament and their largest margin of victory in
the tournament’s eight year history.
Lauren
Bay
picked up the win for OSU, improving to 23-7 on the
year. The lefty fanned eight, walked one and scattered three hits in the
shutout. Katie Decker took the loss for Baylor, falling to 8-7. She struck out
four and gave up eight runs on 11 hits.
Oklahoma
State
improves to 36-11 on the year and will face the
winner of the Nebraska-
Missouri
contest at
8 p.m.
on Friday. Baylor falls to 30-28 after the loss and
plays the loser of the NU-MU contest at
3 p.m.
on Friday.
Baylor upset
Missouri
5-4.
Stephanie
Pomes hit a leadoff home run in the top of the 11th inningThe Lady Bears
eliminated the Tigers, who earlier in the day lost 5-0 to sixth-seeded Nebraska.
Baylor will play
Oklahoma
on Saturday morning.
Texas A&M kept its hopes alive
by ousting Texas Tech 2-0. Lindsay
Wilhelmson homered and Jana James hit an rbi single.
James also took a potential home run away from Tech’s Kristi Robles
with a running catch and reaching over the fence.
Oklahoma
State
edged
Nebraska
3-2 in nine innings in a late game
Friday.
Nebraska
will now play Texas A&M Saturday, with the winner to face
Texas
.
Oklahoma
State
will await the winner of the morning game between
Oklahoma
and Baylor. The last game of the
night was one of the best of the tournament, a true pitchers’ shootout in
which winner
Lauren
Bay
fanned 15 Huskers and Peaches James struck out 17 Cowgirls.
The teams were tied 2-2 at the end of regulation: Brooke Seibel drove in
2 runs for OSU in the 4th and Sheena Lawrick singled in two runs for
Nebraska
in the 6th. The Huskers
had two on in the 7th but both runners were out on plays engineered
by Stephanie Nicholson, the OSU shortstop.
Nebraska
had two on again in the 9th, thanks to a walk and OSU’s third
error, but Bay retired the last two batters.
James got a K but walked Stephanie Hodges; then an out seemed to take the
pressure off, but Nicholson hit an rbi single to win the game.
Other
Game Notes
Oregon
State
upset
Washington
4-2.
Senior Clare
Burnum's fifth inning two-run home run over the left-center field fence
helped propel
Oregon
State
to a 4-2 upset victory against
No. 5 University of Washington in Friday's Pacific-10 Conference softball
action. The victory was just the
second ever for
Oregon
State
(31-25; 4-12 Pac-10) against
Washington
(40-11-1; 7-9 Pac-10) in
Seattle
, and the first since 1999. The
victory also secured a winning season for the Beavers and possible fifth
consecutive NCAA Regional Tournament berth.
The Beavers took a 1-0 lead
in the second inning. Lisa
Allen doubled off the left field wall to lead-off the frame and scored on Vanessa
Iapala's chopper up the middle.
Washington
evened things up in the bottom
half of the frame, capitalizing on a pair of hits with Kathy Fiske crossing the
plate on a single up the middle by Amanda Oleson. Beaver starter Amy
Klever got out of a jam when Aimee Minor grounded out to end the inning with
the bases loaded.
Oregon
State
's big fifth inning started when
Steph
Adams blasted her ninth double of the season with a shot off the wall in
left-center field.
Adams
' double just missed going out
of the park by a foot. Cara
Maxey followed with a sacrifice bunt, setting up Burnum's ninth home run of
the season.
The Huskies threatened in the
bottom half of the fifth inning after Minor reached on a lead-off error. Minor
became the first out when Jaime Clark reached on a fielder's choice, but moments
later Beaver catcher Shelly
Prochaska gunned down
Clark
attempting to steal second. Klever ended the frame by
freezing Husky leading batter Kristen Rivera at the plate for her fourth
strikeout of the contest.
OSU added to its lead with a
run in the sixth inning when Iapala belted a two-out double high off the wall in
right-center field and scored on chopper from
Adams
that bounced over the UW second
baseman's head.
Washington
pounded three hits in the sixth
inning but the Beavers turned their 21st double play of the season - just one
shy of the school record - and Klever fanned pinch hitter Courtney Jeffries to
end the frame. UW made the
score 4-2 in the bottom of the seventh with an unearned run, but stranded a pair
of runners on base when Dena Tyson popped up to end the game.
OSU tallied eight hits
against UW ace Tia Bollinger (22-8) while Klever (8-7) earned her third Pac-10
victory this season for the Beavers.
UCLA edged Oregon 4-3, capitalizing on home runs from Tairia
Mims, Claire
Sua and Stephanie
Ramos on Friday afternoon at Easton Stadium. The Bruins (41-5, 13-3 Pac-10)
will next face Oregon State on Saturday, in what will be the first night game in
the history of Easton Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for
7 pm
.
The Ducks scored first, capitalizing on a lead-off walk that was came in
to score on a ground-out by Andrea Vidlund when the fielders choice throw to the
plate did not get the out. UCLA countered in the bottom half of the frame when
Tairia
Mims hit her 16th home run of the season, a ball that looked to be a high
fly ball deep to center field, but landed just outside of the fence for the home
run, tying the game at 1-1.
Oregon
regained the lead in the top of
the fourth inning; Erin Goodell scored on a double by Breanne Sabol. The Bruins
took their first lead of the game in the 4th, as Caitlin
Benyi singled and scored when Claire
Sua hit a monstrous home run that cleared the lower trees in left center on
its way to Sunset Boulevard. Stephanie
Ramos then followed with her seventh home run of the season off the top of
the scoreboard in left field to give UCLA the 4-2 lead.
Andrea Vidlund picked up
where she left off in Eugene in the seventh inning, hitting her 10th home run of
the season and fourth off of Bruin pitchers this season, but UCLA still held a
one-run lead, and would secure the 4-3 win when Alyssa Laux popped out for the
final out of the game. Michelle
Turner struck out two as she earned her 11th win of the season.
Arizona
State
edged Stanford 1-0. Freshman
Ashley
Werschky (8-4) pitched arguably the best game of her career as she limited
No. 15 Stanford (36-21; 5-11 Pac-10) to four hits and no runs, lifting No. 16
Arizona State (29-19; 6-10 Pac-10) to a 1-0 win.
The Sun Devils got on the board first in the fourth inning on a hit and
two Stanford errors. Kristin
Farber opened the inning by reaching first on an error by the shortstop
Lauren Lappin. Kara
Brun then hit a shot to deep right centerfield to move Farber to second. Now
with two outs, Keri
Pulcifer worked the count full from Stanford starter Dana Sorensen. On the
next pitch, Pulcifer hit a ground ball to second baseman Kira Ching, but she
could not come up clean with the ball as Farber came around to just beat the
throw home for the 1-0 lead.
Villanova defeated Notre Dame, for just the third time in school history, on the
way to a split with the defending Big East Champions. The scores of the contests
were Villanova 7-6 and Notre Dame 3-0. The split brings the Wildcats' record to
31-12-1
on the season and 12-6 in the Big East. Notre Dame stands at
32-14 overall and 13-2 in the conference.
Villanova went up 2-0 in the
top of the first when Ricci
Lugo led off the game with a double to right field.
Lugo
then advanced to third on a
wild pitch and scored on an RBI single from Sara
Carlson. Carlson stole 2nd and scored on Kari
Koller's RBI single to left. The
Wildcat’s opened up a 4-0 lead in the top of the third when Koller roped a
Heather Booth pitch over the left field wall for her seventh homer of the
season. Carlson, who had singled, scored on the homer.
One inning later, the Wildcats loaded the bases courtesy of a Kriste
Romano fielder's choice, a
Lugo
single and a walk to Robin
Flier. Lisa
Krueger followed by ripping a single to centerfield to score Kristin
Leese, who had come on to run for Romano.
Lugo
then came around to score on a
fielder's choice, making the score 6-0 in favor of the Wildcats.
The Irish got one run back in
the bottom of the inning on an RBI single from Liz Hartmann.
Villanova came back in the
top of the fifth when they led off the inning with back-to-back singles from Sarah
Wall and Allison
Wisniewski.
Lugo
was intentionally walked to load the bases, and Flier
responded with a single to center, scoring pinch-runner Andrea
Brown. The RBI proved to be the game-winner.
Notre Dame put four runs on the board in the bottom of the fifth when
Andria Bledsoe scored on a Wildcat error. With two runners on, Hartmann drove a
pitch over the centerfield wall to cut the Villanova lead to 7-5. The Irish
mounted a rally in the bottom of the seventh, but could only muster one run as
Villanova emerged victorious for only the second time ever at Ivy Field.
Theresa
Hornick improved to 16-7 on the season, while Shannon
Williams pitched two-thirds of an inning for her second save of the season.
The Villanova offense did not
fare as well in the nightcap, as the Wildcats were held to just two hits; a
double by
Lugo
, and a single from Wall.
Notre Dame scored all the runs it would need in the bottom of the first
on RBI singles from Andrea Loman and Bledsoe.
Williams took the loss, falling to 11-4 on the year.
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| Stephanie Nicholson |
Chez Sievers |
Kami Keiter |
Ashley Werschky |
ANOTHER SISTER ACT
To our knowledge, they haven’t hit back to back homers,
but Christina and Sarah Douglas have homered in the same game for DePaul.
And, Melissa and Natalie Rawson of
Colgate
University
, and Natalie’s twin Nichole, at Marist, comprise a set of three sisters
playing college ball. Melissa is currently 2nd in the nation in BA at
.509, 5th in HR's per game and has a 1.018 slugging percentage. Melissa
and Natalie are tied for 13th in RBI per game. Natalie currently has a BA
of .366, 8 HR's and a .693 slugging percentage.
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