March 12, 2010
Box Score
Complete Stat Packet, Game 1: UC Riverside 9, Idaho State 2 
Complete Stat Packet, Game 2: UC Riverside 3, Idaho State 0
Riverside, CA --- UC Riverside used a couple of big innings late in both games of a doubleheader with Idaho State, handing the Bengals a 9-2 and 3-0 sweep as ISU's losing streak extended to seven games.
The Bengals held a 2-0 lead in the first game thanks to four straight singles by Megan Miller, Brittany Olsin, Jennifer Martensen, and Jessica Baca, but ISU would get just three hits the rest of the game. It looked like it might be enough as pitcher Kandis Clesson was on her game early, not allowing a hit until the third inning, a hot that scored UC Riverside's first run of the game.
Riverside scored a pair in the fourth to take a 3-2 lead as Kameryn Hebenton tried to sacrifice Ariel Shore and ended up scoring on a little league home run. First, she beat the bunt out for a single, but Olsin's throw sailed past first base and into the outfield for an error, allowing everyone to move up 60 feet. Then the ball scooted under the glove of right fielder Desirae Hoffman, and Shore and Hebenton both scored, making it 3-2.
Then the wheels fell off in the fifth as Alexis Pickett chased Clesson with the three run double, making it 7-2.
The Highlanders then tacked on two off of Nora Maschue in the sixth to make it 9-2.
In game two, Clesson was back in the circle, and she allowed just three runs in five innings, and the teams were both scoreless through four.
ISU had a chance in the top of the fifth, but Megan Miller was stranded at third, and Riverside broke the ice in the bottom half with a bases loaded walk, and then they added some insurance in the sixth with a two-run homer by Jojo Mendoza.
For the doubleheader, ISU had nine hits, but only two in game two.Jennifer Martensen had three hits in game one to lead ISU. Clesson through 9.2 innings and allowed seven earned runs and 13 hits, and Maschue threw 2.1 innings, allowing two runs and three hits.
The Bengals will take on Harvard and Northern Illinois tomorrow as part of the Amy S. Harrison Classic at UC Riverside.
NOTES: ISU has only five runs in their last five games ... ISU dropped to 3-3 when the Bengals score first ... Martensen's three hits marked the ninth time this year a Bengals has had at least three hits in a game.
