April 17, 2011
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
SEATTLE - After dropping the first game of a Sunday doubleheader 10-4 at Seattle University the Utah Valley softball team responded by winning the second game 6-3. The win earned the Wolverines (12-21, 5-3) a series split with the Redhawks (10-25, 5-3).
Sophomore Korryn Coates and junior Amanda Perez led UVU offensively in the win as they both hit two-run homers in the second game and both finished with 2-for-3 performances. Freshman hurler Josi Summers again went the distance from the circle to pick up her ninth win of the season.
"It was a great team win for us," UVU head coach Todd Fairbourne said. "We shuffled the lineup up quite a bit and faced some injury troubles in that second game but no matter who was in there, they really seemed to come through.
"It wasn't Josi's best game of the year but she battled and still found ways to get people out. The long ball really helped us again as Coates and Perez came through with big homers for us."
In the fourth and final game of the series the Redhawks scored two runs in the top of the first inning to go up 2-0. The bottom of the Wolverines' lineup then answered in the second inning as Coates delivered her first collegiate home run, a two-run shot to centerfield to tie the game at 2-all.
UVU then took its first lead of the day in the third when the Wolverines manufactured a run to go up 3-2. Senior Meghan Yocom singled to start the threat and fellow senior Samantha Telarroja followed with a double down the leftfield line to put two runners in scoring position. Freshman Amanda Robinson then drove home Yocom with a sac fly to right to put UVU on top.
SU then responded in the top of the fourth by scoring the tying run on a two out infield single.
UVU then regained the lead in the fifth as Robinson came through with a two out RBI single that scored pinch runner Mandy Tapia. Perez then stepped to the plate and delivered her second home run of the series with a two-run shot to left to give the Wolverines a 6-3 lead.
Summers then retired the Redhawks in order in the sixth and allowed just one base runner to reach base in the seventh as she shut down SU's offense in the late innings.
Seattle took advantage of three Wolverine errors in the early stages of the first game to take a 10-0 lead over UVU in the game.
The Wolverines eventually scored four runs in the final innings but they came a little too late as the Redhawks had already done the damage.
In the fifth, UVU prolonged the game as it put a three spot on the board thanks to two long balls. Junior Maggie Christianson led off the inning with a solo home run to centerfield and a couple batters later Yocom blasted a two-run shot to center as well to extend the game.
"That ball that Christianson hit in the first game was a bomb," Fairbourne added. "It seemed like it lit a fire in these girls as they woke up and responded from then on out."
UVU's final run came in the last of the seventh as Yocom hit her second extra base hit of the game with a double to right field and she later scored on an RBI single from Robinson.
In the game Yocom and Robinson each collected multiple hits to lead UVU as Yocom went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI and Robinson finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and a walk.
Senior Kyli Flanary pitched the entire first game for the Wolverines and despite taking the loss she pitched well as just six of the ten runs were earned. SU's Jessica Ulrich too went the distance for the Redhawks to pick up the victory.
UVU will have a quick turnaround for its next ballgame as it will step out of conference play and travel to Provo for a Tuesday evening contest at BYU. Following the game against the Cougars, UVU will have its home opening series next weekend, April 22-23, when it welcomes PCSC-rival Northern Colorado to Wolverine Field for a four game set.
