Gallery: (4-2-2022) SB vs Weber State Game 3
POCATELLO, Idaho – Idaho State softball (17-19, 1-4 BSC) fell to Weber State (25-7, 3-0) in a marathon game 17-11 Saturday afternoon in Pocatello.
The seven-inning game took four hours to complete and set the record for the longest regulation game in Idaho State softball history.
In a game that saw 70 combined at bats, 28 runs scored, and 29 hits those stats came in behind the true cause of delay in the game, Idaho wind.
During the four-hour contest, the National Weather Service showed sustained wind-speeds as high as 38 miles per hour and wind gusts pushing 50 miles per hour, tropical storm levels of wind.
The weather conditions, combined with two teams playing their hearts out, made for a battle on the diamond with both teams fighting to the end.
Both teams ended the first inning scoreless, it was looking to be another pitching battle. Then, in the second, the offenses of both teams took over.
Weber opened the scoring with three runs in the top of the second. The Bengals wasted no time responding. After Brook Richards, Mailee Newman and Isabella Hanson reached. Isabel Cargill hit a sacrifice fly to left field scoring the Bengal on third.
Rheanne Lewis responded with an RBI Single and the Bengals cut the lead to 3-2.
With two outs, Skyler Sethman hammered a three-RBI Double and the Bengals took at 5-3 lead out of the inning.
The Orange and Black scored two more runs in the third off of another Cargill Hit and a Morgan Hess single to left field. Headed into the fourth the Bengals had a 7-3 lead.
In the bottom of the fourth, Skyler Sethman reached on an error and Frankie Tago came up to bat. The Senior Infielder stepped up to the plate and hammered a homerun over the left field wall. Tago's third home run of the season extended the Bengal lead to 9-4.
In the fifth, the wind helped the wildcats to close the gap. With very strong winds pushing over the left field wall, the Wildcats took advantage and hit three homeruns that sailed past the Berm on the left side of the field, tying the game 9-9.
The Bengal offense didn't waste any time. In the bottom of the fifth, Cargill reached on a single to center, and Angelica Cano and Sethman were walked. Frankie Tago came up to bat again and hit a two-RBI single to left field, letting the Bengals retake the lead at 11-9 for the final time in the game.
The sixth inning proved to be the decider as Weber would go on to score eight runs and take a 17-11 lead. A lead they would hold onto through seven for the final and the win.
The Bengals finished the game with a team-season high 14 hits an tied the season high in RBIs with 11
Cargil had three hits with two RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Bengals.
On Deck
The Bengals get some deserved rest and then Next week head north to take on the Montana Griz in Missoula. First pitch of the double header is set for Friday at 2:00 PM.
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