April 8, 2018
Reno, Nev. - Completing the first game, which was halted on Friday after one inning, the San José State softball team defeated the Nevada Wolf Pack 8-3, but lost game two 7-6 on Sunday morning at UNR's Hixon Field.
San José State 8, Nevada 3
Trailing 1-0 in the top of the second, the point at which Friday's game was resumed, Georgia Blair walked and came around to score on a triple to left center by Brittany Aabacherli (1-for-3, 2R, RBI, 3B). Madison Aurin (2-for-4, RBI), who tossed a complete game win, then helped her own cause by lashing an RBI single through the left side. After an inning and a half, the Spartans were up 2-1.
In the bottom of the frame with one on and one out, Nevada's Sierra Mello stroked a double to right center. The Spartans then traded an out for a run on a groundout to second, which tied the score at 2-2 after two complete.
In the fifth, SJSU (25-10, 9-1 MW) put up three runs to make it 5-2. The Spartans loaded the bases without making an out. Desiree Reyes (2-for-4, 2R, RBI, 2B) led off with a single; Rayohna Sagapolu walked and Alyssa Avila (2-for-3, 2RBI, 2B) singled. Emma Entzminger then hit into a fielder's choice, which plated Reyes. Kaelin Amrein grounded out scoring the second run of the frame and a Cassidy Clark (1-for-4, RBI) single brought home the third.
In the sixth, San José State busted the game open. Abacherli walked to open the inning and two batters later Reyes doubled to left scoring Abacherli. Sagapolu (1-for-2, R) singled to right putting runners on the corners. Makayla Englestad came in to run for Sagapolu and she and Reyes scored on Avila's double over the head of the Nevada centerfielder making it 8-3.
In the Nevada (16-17, 5-5 MW) half of the inning, the Wolf Pack got a leadoff solo homer to close the gap to 8-3, but that was all the scoring the team's would get.
Aurin improved to 11-7 on the year scattering five hits in seven innings. She gave up three runs, all earned.
Nevada used two pitchers with starter Julia Jensen (10-8) going 5.1 innings and getting tagged with all eight Spartans runs.
San Jose State 8, Nevada 3 (Apr 06, 2018 at Reno, Nev.)
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San Jose State...... 020 033 0 - 8 9 1 (25-10, 9-1 MW)
Nevada.............. 110 001 0 - 3 5 2 (16-17, 5-5 MW)
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Pitchers: San Jose State - Aurin, Madison and Avila, Alyssa. Nevada - JENSEN, J; GEIL, A(6) and BURDA, H.
Win-AURIN, Madison(11-7) Loss-JENSEN, J(10-8) T-2:00 A-173
HR NV - HANSEN, E (11).
Weather: Muggy and dampish
Game notes:
Game was halted in the top of the second inning with Nevada leading 1-0
Game: SJ-NV1
Nevada 7, San José State 6
In the second game of the day, three Spartan pitchers gave up 13 hits in a Nevada comeback win. Caroline Bowman, the starter, went only 2.0 innings surrendering six hits and five runs. Desiree Severance replaced Bowman and in 2.2 frames allowed three hit and Madison Aurin (11-8), in 2.0 innings, allowed four hits and two runs.
The Spartans (25-11, 9-2 MW) loaded the bases in the top of the first with one out, but couldn't push any runs across.
Nevada scored twice in the bottom of the first to take its first lead of the day and tacked on another run in the second to make it 3-0.
The Spartans waited one inning before they came storming back. With one out, Kaelin Amrein walked and Cassidy Clark (1-for-3, R) followed her with a single. Two batters later Brittany Abacherli (1-for-3, R, 3RBI, HR) crushed a homer to right center, her sixth of the year, to tie the game 3-3.
Nevada (17-17, 6-5 MW) came right back in the bottom of the inning. They got a leadoff walk followed by a two-run homer from Kenzi Goins to go up 5-3. The homer spelled the end of the day for Bowman, who was lifted in favor of Severance. Severance gave up a single to the first batter she faced, but then got a fly out and a double play to end the inning.
SJSU then scored three runs in the fourth to take a 6-5 lead.
Desiree Reyes (1-for-3, R) walked to open the inning, got to third on a fielding error and then scored on a wild pitch to make it 5-4. Emma Entzminger then walked and Amrein (2-for-3, 2R, 2RBI, HR) slammed a two-run homer, her fifth round tripper of the year, giving SJSU a one-run lead.
The score remained 6-5 until the bottom of the sixth. Aurin, who came on in the fifth to get the final out of the inning, gave up a leadoff double. A sacrifice bunt moved the runner to third and a sacrifice fly scored the tying run.
In the seventh, Aurin again gave up a leadoff double, but Avila picked her off after she wandered a bit to far off the bag. The next batter got on off a fielding error by Clark. The runner stole second ands scored on a single to right to complete the Wolf Pack comeback.
Nevada 7, San Jose State 6 (Apr 08, 2018 at Reno, Nev.)
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San Jose State...... 003 300 0 - 6 6 1 (25-11, 9-2 MW)
Nevada.............. 212 001 1 - 7 13 1 (17-17, 6-5 MW)
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Pitchers: San Jose State - Bowman, Caroline; SEVERANCE, Desiree(3); AURIN, Madison(5) and
Avila, Alyssa. Nevada - GEIL, A; SARGENT, K(4) and BURDA, H.
Win-SARGENT, K(4-8) Loss-AURIN, Madison(11-8) T-1:22 A-240
HR SJ - Amrein, Kaelin (5); Abacherli, Brittany (6).
HR NV - GOINS, K (5).
Weather: Clear skies
BOWMAN faced 2 batters in the 3rd.
Game: SJ-NV2
Currently, the third game of the three-game series is postponed and with a date to make it up has not yet been determined.