April 1, 2009

Game 1
Game 2

SEASIDE, Calif. – Racking up as season-high 17 hits in the opener, the Cal State Monterey Bay softball team swept the Wolves of Western Oregon on Wednesday in a non-conference doubleheader at the Otter Softball Field. The final scores were 9-5 and 4-2.

In the opener, each team's offense started off strong with both teams scoring runs in the first two innings.  WOU scored two runs in its first at-bat on no hits and a CSUMB error.

The Otters answered with four runs off seven hits in the bottom of the first inning. Junior #Jennifer Montez# led off with a triple to right field. Freshman #Jamie Moon# hit a RBI single up the middle.  Junior #Lucia Rodriguez# singled and sophomore #Shea Olds# hit back-to-back singles to bring Moon across the plate, tying the game at 2-2.  Junior #Niki Ames# hit her first triple of the year to give the Otters their first lead of the game. After junior #Shelair Rowell# drew a walk, senior #Ashlee Trotter# drove a single down the left line to score Ames.

The Wolves added a single run in the second inning off three hits before relief pitcher #Michelle Tating# stuck out the final two batters.

CSUMB continued its offensive surge into the next inning.  Rodriguez scored on an error by the Wolves after reaching first on a single. Ames crushed the ball off the center field wall to bring in another run. Trotter and senior #Alma Lopez# both hit RBI singles and Trotter than scored on a pass ball to finish the Otters scoring of the game, 9-3.

WOU would score two more runs in the fourth inning on a home run by Jessica Hallmark.

Rodriguez and Ames each went 3-for-4 in the first game while four different Otters finished with two hits apiece. Tating had her best outing of the season to date, pitching six innings and striking out six batters.

In the nightcap, neither team scored more than one run in a frame.

With one out in the bottom of the first inning, Moon blasted her first collegiate home run over the center wall to give the Otters a 1-0 lead.

The Wolves tied it up in their next at bat when Hancock hit a RBI double to right center.

Pinch hitter Valerie Calderon gave CSUMB the lead again in the second inning on a RBI single to left field, 2-1.

WOU's Hallmark tied it at 2-2 in the top of the third inning on Hallmark's RBI single.

Trotter led off the fourth inning with a homer, her seventh of the season, over the right center wall to give CSUMB a 3-2 lead.

The Otters added an insurance run in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly by Rowell, giving the game its 4-2 final score.

Trotter went 2-for-3 in the nightcap, scoring and driving in a run. Senior #Jessica Boyle# pitched a complete game to earn her seventh victory of the season, striking out three batters.

"It was great to get these wins after Western Oregon defeated us in the NCAA playoff last year," said Otters head coach Andrea Kenney. "Our offense stayed hot and we got good pitching performances from Boyle and Tating."

CSUMB competes this weekend in the Tournament of Champions hosted by Cal State Stanislaus in Turlock.