March 14, 2010
Box Score
Complete Stat Packet: Long Beach State 1, Idaho State 0 
Long Beach, CA --- Kandis Clesson continues to tuirn in fantastic efforts in the circle for ISU. She also continues to wonder where he team's offense is when she is pitching, as she allowed just three hits, but one home run in the sixth inning, as ISU failed to score and lost a second straight game by a 1-0 score, this one at Long Beach State to the 49ers.
The Bengals have been shutout in each of Clesson's last three starts, and the team has failed to score in the last 24 innings in which she has pitched, including three straight shutouts. Idaho State did beat Harvard yesterday 9-4, but Nora Maschue pitched that game.
Clesson was cruising along with a no-hitter before allowing a double in the fifth to start the inning. That runner made it to third with one out, but she coazed a pair of pop-ups to get out of the inning. In the top of the sixth to lead it off, Nalani St. Germain hit her eighth home run of the year to give the 49ers a 1-0 lead, and that was all they needed for their pitcher Brooke Turner, who allowed just five singles and struck out 13 Bengals.
ISU's best chance was in the fifth inning when Erin Olander led off with a single. After she was removed on a fielder's choice, Emily Hu singled, moving Jocelyn Horton to second. Both moved into scoring position with a ground out, but the inning ended when Taylor Marchione became one of Turner's 13 strike out victims.
The Bengals have now been shut out in three of their last four games after entering the California road trip with a .302 team batting average, and things won't get any easier as the team travels to Oregon and Oregon State for doubleheaders in two weeks before hosting Great Falls in their home opener on March 31.
NOTES: The back-to-back 1-0 losses marked the first time in program history ISU had ever played back-to-back 1-0 games ... SInce the program restarted in 2007, there had been just one 1-0 game, a 1-0 win in 2008 over the College of Idaho ... Megan Miller and Erin Olander each had two hits for ISU.
