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BOX SCORE 2 GAME 1: Sonoma State 4, Pace 0 -- Box Score | Video Replay
GAME 2: Sonoma State 10, Pace 1 (6 innings) -- Box Score | Video Replay: Part 1 - Part 2
ROHNERT PARK -- Amanda Llerena tossed a five-hit, complete-game shutout with nine strikeouts in a 4-0 win in game one, then
Amanda Rossetta broke a program record with seven RBI's in game two, including four on a walkoff grand slam to induce the eight-run mercy rule in a 10-1 victory, leading the Sonoma State softball team to a doubleheader sweep of visiting Pace on Wednesday afternoon at the Seawolf Softball Field. The Seawolves rise to 19-11 this season while the Setters, from Pleasantville, New York, fall to 1-7.
Llerena recorded her third complete-game shutout of the season while falling one strikeout short of tying her career record of 10. She didn't allow a base hit until giving up a double to lead off the fifth inning, and the double was the only extra base hit that Pace recorded on the day. With the win, Llerena improved to 11-7, lowering her ERA to 1.94 and is the first pitcher in the CCAA to eclipse the 100 strikeout plateau this season with a total of 102.
Keisi Chinen smashed her fourth home run of the season to lead off the second inning of game one, putting SSU up 1-0. In their next at bat, the Seawolves tacked on three more runs on five base hits, including an RBI single from
Ashley Long to plate
Hayley Condon, a double steal with Long swiping home, and a sacrifice fly off the bat of Chinen to score
Megan Konieczka. The 4-0 score would hold up to be the final after seven Sonoma State hits, all by seven different batters.
In the nightcap, the Seawolves got off to a quick start, thanks to Rossetta, who brought home Long and Chinen with a single up the middle for the 2-0 lead. Another two runs came home to score in the fifth on a defensive error and heads-up baserunning by Condon, in addition to another RBI single from Rossetta.
Pace finally broke through for its first run of the day in the top of the sixth inning when pinch-hitter Samantha Garcia poked an RBI single to left field, but it would be the only one as
Katy Bihl shut down the Setter lineup as well in game two. Bihl grabbed her fourth win of the season, improving to 4-1. She allowed seven hits and one run, striking out two.
With a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the sixth, the offense exploded for six runs to end the game via the eight-run mercy rule. Condon recorded a bases-loaded two-RBI single, scoring
Holli Brown and
Alison Strycula before Rossetta ended it four batters later with a grand slam over the left field fence.
It ended a monsterous game for Rossetta, topping the previous single-game RBI mark of six that had been reached three times, the last coming during the 2010 season. As a team, the Seawolves scattered 11 hits, three from Rossetta and two from Condon, Chinen and Strycula.
Sonoma State returns to CCAA play on Friday when it hosts Cal State Stanislaus in a four-game series, starting with a doubleheader on Friday at 1:00 pm.