April 11, 2007
Box Score
Orem, UT- The Utah Valley softball team picked up its 15th win of the season on Wednesday by taking game two of a doubleheader with Southern Utah 10-7. In the first game SUU defeated the Wolverines 5-2.
Utah Valley is now 15-23 while Southern Utah dropped to 16-21. The Wolverines have tied their win total from last year when they finished 15-36.
"It is nice to get one," Utah Valley coach Todd Fairbourne said. "After you lose the first it makes the second sweeter. You don't want to get swept. The way that game started I thought it (the second game) was going to be 18-15. It was nice we got as many long balls as we did. We swung the bats pretty well."
Heidi Boyer, Cheryl McGraw, Jordan Chaney and Cari Hamilton all had multiple hits for the Wolverines.
In the final game, Utah Valley got homeruns from Boyer, Chaney, Jackie Roberts and Jasmine Joyce.
UV scored its 10 runs on nine hits in the game 2 win. McGraw and Chaney led the attack with two hits apiece. Jackie Roberts upped her record to 6-8 as she struck out seven and allowed 10 hits in seven innings of work.
UV jumped out to a 5-2 lead after two innings. With one out in the first, Hamilton reached on an SUU error. McGraw then doubled to right field to move Hamilton to third. Hamilton later scored the first run on a wild pitch. Boyer, who reached base on a wild pitch strike out, scored when Natalie Paulsen was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
After SUU tied the game at two in the top of the second, the Wolverines countered with three runs to take a 5-2 lead after a Joyce two-run homer and a McGraw RBI that scored Hamilton.
SUU tied the game at five in the third after Lindi Kennedy hit her second of three homeruns in the game.
Utah Valley took the lead for good in the fourth thanks to a three-run bomb by Boyer. Boyer's homer was set up after Hamilton walked and McGraw doubled with one out.
"That was big," Fairbourne said on Boyer's homerun. "She is so strong. She gets the bat on the ball and if you leave it over the plate she is going to hit it hard."
In the fifth, Chaney and Roberts hit back-to-back homeruns to extend Utah Valley's lead to 10-6.
Kennedy hit her third homerun on a solo shot over the left-center fence in the seventh inning.
Utah Valley's strong start in game 2, was a carry-over from how the Wolverines finished the first game. Through six innings of play the Wolverines managed only one hit and trailed 5-0.
But UV scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh and put the tying run to the plate before SUU's Marissa Gonzalez was able to get out of the inning.
With one out, McGraw and Boyer hit consecutive singles to put runners on first and second. After Gonzalez struck out Chaney, Jamie Tonis hit a two-RBI double to centerfield to bring UV within three runs. Paulsen then singled to left but the game ended when Roskelley grounded into a fielder's choice.
The Wolverines travel to Idaho State on Saturday for a doubleheader that starts at Noon.
