Mia Longfellow Breaks School Hits And Singles Records But No. 13 Beavers Drop 5-3 Outing To No. 12 UCLA
The game shaped up to be a classic Pac-10 pitcher’s duel from the start. Beaver hurler allowed just one hit over the first three innings of play while Bruin starter Anjelica Selden was pitching a perfect game heading into the fourth.
Longfellow broke-up the perfect game with a one-out infield single to shortstop in the Beaver half of the fourth inning. The infield hit allowed Longfellow to become
Sophomore followed Longfellow’s hit with a single and then McGowan helped her own cause with a RBI blooper to center field. The Beavers extended their lead to 2-0 when had a RBI ground-out to second base.
The Bruins (33-13; 9-6 Pac-10) answered in the bottom of the fourth when shortstop Jodie Legaspi belted her third home run in the last two days with a 2-run shot over the center field fence.
Oregon State (35-18; 7-8 Pac-10) regained the lead in the top of the fifth as Longfellow broke Chmielewski’s Beaver singles record when she singled to right field and scored freshman . The single was the 177th of Longfellow’s career and extended her school record hits total to 227, along with giving the Beavers a 3-2 advantage.
UCLA rallied in the bottom of the sixth inning to score three runs and regain the lead for good. Megan Langenfeld’s lined single off the right field wall scored Lisa Dodd and Legaspi crossed the plate on an errant throw to give the Bruins the edge. UCLA added an insurance run on Tara Henry’s two-out infield single.
The Beavers loaded the bases in the seventh inning but were unable to push any runs across the plate.
Longfellow, Young, and all finished with two hits as the Beavers out-hit UCLA 8-7 on the afternoon.
GAME RESULTS:
No. 13
No. 12 UCLA – 000 203 x – 5 7 1
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