SAN FRANCISCO — No. 10 ranked Cal State Monterey Bay took care of business twice Friday afternoon, sweeping a doubleheader from San Francisco State 8–0 (5 inn.) and 5–4 at the SFSU Softball Field.
Freshman pitcher
Hayley Fein (Sparks, Nev./Spanish Springs HS) earned both wins to improve to 23–6 on the season. She tossed a 4–hit shutout—her eighth of the season—to win the opener before throwing 3 1/3 innings of 1–hit relief to close the nightcap.
CSUMB scored eight runs on 14 singles in Game 1, with a couple of key Gator errors helping along the way. SFSU scrapped its way to a 3–1 lead through four innings of Game 2 before
Julia Garcia (Ventura College) knocked her 12th home run of the season off the scoreboard to put the Otters on top to stay in the fifth.
Senior designated player
Mikal Cuellar (Cabrillo College) led the offense with four hits Friday, including three in the opener. Garcia,
Madison Casto (Sunnyvale/Homestead HS) and
Jayme Stark (La Quinta HS) also had three hits apiece.
Casto hit safely in both games to extend her hitting streak to 12 games, longest of the season by an Otter. Garcia ran her streak of reaching base safely to a team season–best 23 games.
GAME 1 WAS OVER WHEN OVER WHEN… Courtney Hennings' (Amador Valley HS) RBI single scored
Jayme Stark to make it 8–0 in the fourth.
GAME 2 WAS OVER WHEN OVER WHEN… After SFSU cut the Otter lead to 5–4 on a 3–base error and a groundout,
Hayley Fein fanned Megan Clark for the final out.
LEADING OFF… The shutout by
Hayley Fein was her eight of the season, tying
Cori Reinhardt (2015) for No. 2 on the CSUMB single–season list.
Lindsey Clarkson set the Otter record with 10 shutouts in 2014.
ON DECK… The 3–hit games by
Mikal Cuellar and
Jayme Stark in Game 1 were the 30th and 31st of the season by an Otter. Ten different CSUMB batters have combined for 106 multi–hit games through 43 games in 2017.
IN THE HOLE… The run–rule win in Game 1 was the 13th of the season by the Otters. The school record for run–rule wins in a season is 14 by the 2015 CCAA Champion Otter squad.
LEADERS OF THE RAFT… Mikal Cuellar (4x5, R);
Julia Garcia (3x5, HR (12), 2 R, 3 RBI);
Madison Casto (3x6, R, 2 RBI);
Jayme Stark (3x6, 2 SB, SF, 2 R, 2 RBI;
Hayley Fein (2 W (23–6), 8.1 IP, ShO, 5 H, 0 ER, 2 K).
THEY'VE GOT NEXT… The Otters conclude their 4–game set at S.F. State with doubleheader Saturday at noon.
GO OTTERS!
