April 13, 2010
Box Score
OREM, Utah - Utah Valley dropped only its second home softball game of the season Tuesday with a 12-3 loss to BYU. The loss snapped the Wolverines' four-game winning streak.
Megan Gardner led the Wolverines, who fell to 17-17 and 7-2 at home, with two hits - one of which was a homer in the bottom of the first - and three RBIs.
UVU starter Kyli Flanary held the Cougars (27-6) scoreless for the first two innings before they struck for six runs to take the 6-1 lead. BYU scored three more in the fourth and one more in the fifth and had the Wolverines on the mercy-run ropes.
The Wolverines, who had just two hits of BYU's Christine Zinanti and Hannah Howell through the first four innings, scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth off BYU ace Paige Affleck.
With one out, the Wolverines strung together four straight hits by Meghan Woodworth, Mandy Tapia and Gardner and Amber Sackett. Gardner's single scored UVU's final two runs.
UVU scored just two runs in the inning and left three runners on base.
"I was proud of the girls. They hung in there and had some good at-bats," UVU softball coach Todd Fairbourne said. "Against better teams you need to hope you can win 3-2 or 5-3 not 13-12. That's what it comes down to. Hopefully they can learn and we can move on and step it up and give Portland State all they can handle."
BYU outhit the Wolverines, 17-8, and each team committed just one error.
Flanary fell to 7-7 with the loss by giving up five runs on six hits in 2.1 innings. Heather Bacon allowed five runs (four earned) in 3.2 innings.
The Wolverines return to Pacific Coast Softball Conference action Friday when they host Portland State in a doubleheader beginning at noon.
