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UC Santa Barbara
No. 14 Softball Takes Night Cap from UC Santa Barbara
5/2/2002 12:00:00 AM | Softball
May 1, 2002
FRESNO, Calif. - No. 14 Fresno State softball completed its non-conference schedule with a 4-2 victory in the night cap over UC Santa Barbara as the Bulldogs took two from the Gauchos at Bulldog Diamond.
Freshman right-hander Amanda Wolf, who made her fifth collegiate start, picked up her second victory of the season. Overcoming a 1-1 record with two no-decisions in her last four starts, Wolf had a solid outing after allowing two runs on six hits, walking none and striking out two in 5.1 innings of work.
Junior right-hander Leslie Poole, who picked up the win in game one, provided relief help and recorded her first save as a Bulldog (second in collegiate career) after getting out all five batters faced in 1.2 innings.
The Bulldogs' 8-9-1-2 batters did the damage in the night cap. Freshman shortstop Leticia Pacheco went 1-3 with a run, double and RBI. Senior first baseman Vanessa Czarnecki went 0-1 with a run and a RBI. Senior center fielder Tiffany Whipple had the team's third RBI after going 2-3. Sophomore second baseman Pam Perez was the other Bulldog to collect two hits in the game after going 2-3.
Fresno State erased a 2-1 deficit when it posted three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to improved to 46-15 on the year.
The Bulldogs scored first with a run in the third before the Gauchos answered back with a tro-run frame in the top of the fourth.
In the third, Czarnecki scored on a one-out wild pitch by UCSB's pitcher Katie Junge.
In the top of the fourth with one out, Gaucho shortstop Julia Tamai laced a RBI triple to right center and knocked in catcher Jamie Trinidad who had just singled to center field. Center fielder Natalie Adame then hit a sacrifice fly to deep right field to score Tamai.
In the bottom of the inning, Fresno State scored three runs on four hits. With one out, senior right fielder Lashme Gomez singled to left field. Junior catcher Pam West then singled down the left field line. With runners on first and second, freshman shortstop Leticia Pacheco doubled to left center as Gomez scored. Sophomore Mitzi Ing came in to pinch run for West. With Ing on third base, Czarnecki grounded out to the Gaucho second baseman and picked up a RBI as Ing scored on the play. As Pacheco moved to third, Whipple shot a two-out RBI single past the UC Santa Barbara first baseman for the Bulldogs third run of the inning.
Fresno State (46-15, 15-3) resumes Western Athletic Conference play tomorrow night at home against Loyola Marymount, 6:00 p.m. Fresno State hosts Portland State on Saturday, 1:00 p.m., to close out its regular-season home schedule.
Entering WAC action against LMU and PSU and with the magic number being three, the Bulldogs will look to clinch its fifth straight WAC title and sixth league crown in front of the home crowd.
