POCATELLO, Idaho- The Idaho State softball team dropped two games in the second day of the of the 2018 Marucci Desert Classic in Las Vegas on Saturday, falling 5-2 to CSUN and 18-0 to Hawai'i in five innings.
CSUN 5 Idaho State 2
The Bengals had six hits by six different players. Frank Tago had an RBI while
Haley Harrison and
Kelsey Breer scored the two runs.
Mariah Mulcahy went the distance, scattering nine hits, five runs, two earned and striking out four. The Bengals committed two errors in the field while CSUN had nine hits and two errors.
Idaho State led 1-0 after the fourth inning. Breer led off with a double to right field and later scored on a Tago double to right-center.
CSUN tied the game in the fifth inning and then scored four runs in the top of the seventh to take a 5-1 lead. ISU committed two errors in the inning.
The Bengals got a run in the bottom of the seventh. Harrison walked with one out and would advance to second when
Makenzie VanSickle walked. Harrison scored when
Aubrey Creekmore reached on an error.
"We competed today in the first game," Idaho State coach
Candi Letts said. "We made costly mistakes at the end and left runners in scoring position stranded."
Hawai'i 18 Idaho State 0 (5)
The Bengals had three hits but committed three errors in the field. UH scored four runs in the first, three in the second, eight in the third and four runs in the fourth inning.
Hawai'i had 17 hits. Mulcahy took the loss in the circle. She pitched two innings and gave up nine hits and seven runs.
Danni Ryan tossed the final three innings and allowed eight hits, 11 runs, seven walks and one strikeout.
Emma Bordenkecher,
Cassidy FitzGerald and
Genesis Zamora each had hits.
"Hawai'i was aggressive from the first pitch and hit everything where we were not," Letts said. "We need to adjust better and earlier in the game."
Tournament play in Las Vegas closes Sunday at 12:15 p.m. against Long Beach State.
