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Box Score 2 TURLOCK — Relentless hitting powered Humboldt State to a pair of one-sided victories Sunday, ending the Jacks' weekend appearance at the Best of the West Classic with a 4-1 record.
Humboldt State destroyed opposing pitching, pounding out a combined 30 hits to claim an 11-3 win over Western Washington University and a 12-6 victory over San Francisco State. All-American first baseman
Chrissy Stalf—who was also selected to the all-tournament team along with
Alicia Reid—led the parade with six hits and seven RBIs, while second baseman
Kirsten Nouzovsky scored six of the Jacks' runs.
In the day's first game, the heart of the HSU order provided most of the punch in a 14-hit attack. Stalf,
Felicia Viveiros and
Dani Randall, in the 3-5 positions, combined for nine hits, including three doubles by Randall that each notched an RBI.
Humboldt State broke out the bats early, plating five runs in the top of the first inning. Tanya Walker provided the big blow, a double that knocked in Randall and pinch runner
Megan Wink.
Randall's two-run double in the fourth sent Stalf and Nouzovsky across, staking HSU to a 7-1 lead. The Lumberjacks finished off the Vikings with a four-run sixth, scoring runs on Randall's third double, another double by
Ally Blenis, and an RBI single by Walker.
Kayla Evans earned the win, her first in two tries as a Lumberjack. The freshman hurler scattered nine hits, inducing 12 groundouts in the complete-game victory.
Sunday's second game saw the Jacks break out quickly again, taking a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. With one out, Stalf launched a two-run homer that drove in Nouzovsky, who had reached on a fielder's choice.
San Francisco State was up to the task, responding with Brittany Barcellos' two-out, run-scoring single off Jacks' starter
Jessica George that cut the HSU lead to 2-1 in the second inning. Lucy Fernandez' double keyed a three-run third inning that moved the Gators ahead, 4-2.
Humboldt State chipped away, scoring once in the bottom of the third when Nouzovsky singled, moved to second on a single by Viveiros, and came home on Randall's single. SFSU moved up by two again with a run in the top of the fourth, but the Lumberjacks reclaimed the lead with four runs in the bottom of the inning, scoring once on a Gator error, two more runs on Nouzovsky's double, and another coming home on a double by Vivieros that gave the Lumberjacks a 7-5 advantage.
Stalf struck again in the bottom of the fifth, pounding a two-out triple into right field after the Jacks had loaded the bases. She ended her hitting clinic with a sixth-inning single that drove in the Jacks' final two runs of the day.
Jennifer Sizemore pitched 4 1/3 innings of relief to earn the win, surrendering one run and four hits to improve her record to 2-0.
California Collegiate Athletic Association action begins this week when the Lumberjacks travel to Carson for Saturday and Sunday doubleheaders against Cal State Dominguez Hills.