Posted: Mar 27, 2013
Ten-run Second Inning Highlights Riverside’s 19-0 win over Fullerton
RIVERSIDE – After stubbing its collective toe in a last-inning road loss last week, the host Riverside City College (RCC) Tigers women's fastpitch softball team was looking to make amends and did so with emphasis in a 19-0 home Orange Empire Conference (OEC) win over the visiting Fullerton College Hornets Tuesday afternoon (Mar. 26) at Brown Field (Evans Sports Complex). The game was shortened to 4-1/2 innings when the mercy rule took effect.
Riverside (25-12, 11-2 OEC) pushed across four runs in the first inning, ten in the second, three in the third and two in the fourth, while Fullerton (6-20, 2-9 OEC) could manage only three infield hits, including two in the first and one in the fourth (which was erased on a double play).
Last Friday (March 22), RCC saw its club-record 16-game win streak come to an end with a 1-0 OEC loss at Santiago Canyon as the Hawks scored in the bottom of the seventh.
But today, the Tigers had no trouble scoring runs.
Sophomore 1B Katherine Macias (Riverside – Arlington HS /Yavapai CC – Prescott, AZ) paced RCC with a three-for-four game with four runs and four RBI. Macias doubled in a run in the first, singled in the second and then blasted a three-run home run in the third. In the fourth, she reached base on an infield error. The roundtripper was her 11th circuit clout of the season.
Freshman catcher Christina Mohl (San Bernardino – Cajon HS) was three for three with three RBI and sophomore SS Natalie Barrios (Corona – Centennial HS) was two for four with three RBI for RCC.
Sophomore RHP Chelsea Ponce (Norwalk / San Bernardino – Cajon HS) went the distance (five innings) and allowed just the trio of scratch singles. She walked none, struck out eight on only 66 pitches (44 strikes). Fullerton starting RHP Shailee Boehmer (Riverside / M.L. King HS) was relieved with no outs in the second inning and was the Hornets' pitcher of record (3-10) after allowing nine runs (all earned) on seven hits and three walks.
Freshman RF Alexandria Avila (Cerritos / Cerritos HS) singled twice in her two at-bats for Fullerton.
Both teams continue action on Wednesday, March 27, at 3 p.m. Fullerton will host the Orange Coast College Pirates, while Riverside will visit the Golden West College Rustlers.