LAS VEGAS -- Lindsey Calcany-Blair recorded four RBI in the two games combined and
Jordann White hit a home run for the second time in as many days as the Sonoma State softball team split a pair of games Saturday on day two of the MSUB Desert Stinger in Las Vegas. The Seawolves move to 3-1 on the season and will wrap up tournament play on Sunday at 2:00 pm against Western New Mexico.
Sonoma State 9, Hawaii Hilo 8 (8 innings)
Every time one team would score, the other would answer. The game was tied at 3-3 after three and at 5-5 after six innings of play. In the top of the seventh, with UHH serving as the home team, the Seawolves looked to put the game in the bag on
Jordann White's two-run homer, giving her team a 7-5 margin. But the Vulcans answered in the bottom half on a two-run single by Kacie Freudenberger to send the game into extra innings again.
In the top of the eighth, the Seawolves put the pressure on with two more runs--one earned and one not. UHH got one back in the bottom of the stanza on a sacrifice fly by Cristina Menjivar, but left the tying run on second base as SSU pitcher
Gabby Dupree, who entered for
Brigid Ruiz in the seventh, got the final out of the game for the win.
Calcany-Blair,
Karly Macadangdang,
Jenny Collazo and
Alison Strycula all recorded two hits each in the ballgame.
Texas Women's 13, Sonoma State 4
The Seawolves broke the scoreless tie in the bottom of the first when Macadangdang walked to start the frame before coming around to score on a fielder's choice by
Sarah Langley. The Pioneers answered with a run in the top of the second before
Jenn Amaral scored on a suicide squeeze by Strycula to make it 2-1 in favor of Sonoma, but the wheels came off in the third when Texas Women's plated five runs, followed by a run in the fourth and six more in the fifth to take a 13-2 lead. The Seawolves managed to get two runs in the bottom of the fifth, but that would be it.
White and
Malory Masajlo had the only two hits for SSU in the game.
Teresa Danenberg was tagged with the loss in her SSU debut after 2-2/3 innings even though all six runs that scored on her watch were unearned. The Seawolves were credited with nine errors in the loss.
