POCATELLO, Idaho- The Idaho State softball team scored five runs in the sixth inning against Utah Valley University to earn a 7-3 victory and its first win of the season on Saturday afternoon in Fort Collins, Colo. The Bengals second game against Colorado State was halted due to darkness in the fifth inning. Colorado State was leading 12-5 and the Bengals had two runners on base. The game will continue tomorrow.
The Bengals had 11 hits and
Danni Ryan and
Mariah Mulcahy combined to allow only six hits in the circle.
Mulcahy earned the win as she pitched the final 2.2 innings and did not allow a hit while walking only one batter. Ryan went the first 4.1 innings and allowed six hits, three runs, seven walks and five strike outs.
Idaho State's
Frankie Tago,
Cassidy FitzGerald and
Genesis Zamora had home runs in the game.
Tago was 2-3 with two RBIs and Zamora was 2-3 with one RBI.
Ashlyn Ames was 2-4 with one RBI and FitzGerald's only hit was a two-run homer.
Idaho State trailed 3-1 after the top of the fifth inning. The Wolverines scored two runs in the top of the first and then Ames had an RBI double in the bottom half of the inning.
UVU added another run in the top of the fifth but the Bengals answered when Zamora homered down the left field line.
The Bengals then exploded for five runs on seven hits in the bottom of the sixth inning to break the game open.
Ames started the inning with a single and Bordenkecher followed with a sacrifice bunt.
Then with two outs Tago hit a two-run homer and FitzGerald, who came in as a pinch hitter then hit a two-run homer to centerfield.
Kelsey Breer also had an RBI single in the inning.
