May 7, 2011

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

OREM, Utah - Utah Valley split a doubleheader with Idaho State on senior day in Orem as the Wolverines won game one 12-7 but dropped game two 4-1. With the loss UVU is officially eliminated from winning the PCSC Mountain Division title and will now focus on heading to the Great West Conference Championships that will take place May 15-16 in Vermillion, S.D.

On the day UVU (19-28, 12-8 PCSC) honored its four departing seniors Kyli Flanary, Mandy Tapia, Samantha Telarroja and Meghan Yocom for their outstanding careers in a green & white uniform.

"Athletically it's going to be hard to replace our seniors," UVU head coach Todd Fairbourne said. "From skill set wise to people they have been just great and I'm really going to miss them all. I've grown really attached to all four of them including the two Junior College kids (Kyli Flanary & Mandy Tapia).

"They'll all be hard to replace and I don't ever know if we'll ever replace the four-year players in Sam (Telarroja) and Meghan (Yocom). I'm very proud of them all and they've all played a major part for our program over the years. We are definitely losing four major players."

In the game one victory the senior Telarroja led the way offensively by going 2-for-3, with a homer, a triple and six RBI. Fellow seniors Yocom and Tapia each recorded hits too as Yocom went 2-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored while Tapia finished the first game by going 1-for-3 with a run scored. Flanary went hitless from the designated player spot in the first game and started the second one in the circle.

There was no shortage of runs scored in the early stages of the first game. UVU started it off with three runs in the top of the first and the Bengals (16-32, 9-11 PCSC) countered with three of their own in the last of the frame. Each team then scored a solo run in the second to tie the game at 4-all. In the third UVU scored three more runs to take a 7-4 advantage and after four the Wolverines led 9-5.

Amanda Perez started the scoring for the Wolverines in the first as she hit a three-run homer to left. In the second Yocom drove home Korryn Coates with an RBI single up the middle and in the third Mairaea Tanielu brought home a run via an RBI hit and Telarroja drove home two more by blasting a towering homer to right center field.

In the fourth UVU loaded the bases and scored a couple runs off of bases loaded walks and hit batters as Perez and Telarroja each added another RBI apiece.

Telarroja then added three more RBI in the sixth when she hit a bases clearing triple to left center to put the Wolverines in front by a 12-5 score. ISU managed to score two more runs the rest of the way but UVU managed to pull out the 12-7 win.

Not just Telarroja had a huge RBI game as Perez went 2-for-3 and drove in four.

Josi Summers went the distance in the circle for the win to improve to 13-14 on the year and ISU's Kandis Clesson suffered the loss (13-18) as she allowed eight earned runs in 3 plus innings of work.

After the two teams combined four 19 runs in the first game, the second one was a different story as the two squads scored just a total of five runs.

UVU led game two 1-0 early on after Yocom singled and came around to score on a throwing error in the first. The Bengals then answered by scoring two runs in the second to take the lead and added two more in the third thanks to back-to-back solo homers from Terah Blackwell and Christina Rayner to go up 4-1.

That's the way the game would end as Flanary and Summers for UVU and Rayner for ISU combined to put up zeros the rest of the way.

Rayner picked up the win for the Bengals to improve to 3-6 on the year while Flanary took the loss (6-14) as she allowed three earned runs in four and two thirds innings of work.

Yocom led the Wolverines in the second game by going 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored.

"Like it's been all year, we needed to get more consistent production from top to bottom in the order." Fairbourne added. "It was a long and emotional weekend and I thought that the girls were too lethargic for the most part. Hopefully we can regroup at Utah State Monday and use that to springboard us into the Great West Championships."

The Wolverines will conclude their regular-season Monday, as they will head up to Logan for a doubleheader against in-state rival Utah State beginning at 1 p.m.