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Last Updated: Mar 26th, 2009 - 13:43:13 |
The sweetness of success, the bitter tang of defeat.
The College of the Redwoods softball team had a taste of both as the team split its Golden Valley Conference doubleheader with Butte on Wednesday -- taking the opener 4-2 before falling in the nightcap 9-4.
”It feels good to get the win, but it's a little bittersweet splitting,” she said. “We got the monkey off our backs by getting the conference win, but weren't able to carry that momentum into the second game.”
In game one, the Lady Corsairs got the job done with solid small ball, clutch defense and poise in the pitcher's circle.
CR's Cari Killingsworth led off the bottom of the first with a single to opposite field right, before teammate Chantel Worley brought her in with an RBI single.
Butte responded quickly when an infield error allowed Lindsay Von Moos reach first base. That set the table for Butte's Heather Jackson, Ashley Wagner and Sharla Stockton who all came up with base hits to bring Von Moos around for the team's first score of the game, tying the game at 1-1 in the process.
But in the bottom of the second, CR answered with a timely hit from Chenone Blake and opportunistic baserunnning by Vanessa McGuire.
Leading off the inning, McGuire wore a pitch to reach first and advanced to second on a fielder's choice. She would eventually move to third off a sac-fly to right field by Josie Campbell.
With two outs and McGuire on third, Campbell stepped up to the plate and ripped the ball down the third base line where the ball ricocheted off the bag and past the fielder, allowing McGuire to come home. That made the score 2-1 Redwoods, but the run would be CR's last of the inning.
Von Moos struck again in the third, knotting up the score at 2-2 with an RBI single that drove in teammate Katie Buzarellos who was hit by a pitch earlier.
The score remained tied until the bottom of the sixth, when CR's Felicia Ambrosini kick-started a two-run rally with a leadoff single to the left-center gap.
Ambrosini would advance to second on a fielder's choice before McGuire blasted an RBI double to left, bringing in the go-ahead run.
But The Corsairs weren't done yet.
Two batters later, Campbell belted an RBI double of her own, trading places with McGuire in the process and making the score 4-2 CR for the last run of the inning, and that proved more than enough.
Redwoods pitcher Caitlin Wallace came through in the circle, forcing the Roadrunners to go three-up-three-down by hitting into easy outs.
Game two was a different story altogether.
The Corsairs got off on the wrong foot when the team gave up six unearned runs in the first inning.
After Butte dealt that initial blow, CR never recoverd.
With the loss, CR dropped to 1-9 in conference and 8-16 overall.
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