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• March 28, 2010

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TURLOCK, Calif. - The final day of the Mizuno Tournament of Champions proved to be the best for the 裸聊直播 softball team, as it came up with wins over Chaminade and Notre Dame de Namur during elimination play, advancing to the Bronze Bracket championship game before falling to Humboldt State. The Pioneers (10-20) opened the morning with a 2-0 victory over the Silverswords before coming from behind to topple the Argonauts, 4-3. The Jacks, who played just two games on Sunday, notched an 8-0 run-rule victory in the finale.

In its lowest scoring game of the tournament, East Bay took care of Chaminade with quality pitching from junior starter Cat Schorn and freshman reliever Lauren Zweigle, who earned the win. The pair combined to throw seven shutout innings, allowing six hits and striking out five. Despite allowing just four hits and one earned run, Silverswords starter Kelly Korras took the loss.

After two scoreless innings, the Silverswords threatened in the top of the third after a leadoff double put a runner in scoring position for Skye Virtudes. The shortstop drove a single into center where junior centerfielder Nikki Freiberg came up firing, sending a laser to senior catcher Rachelle Boone who tagged the runner to keep Chaminade scoreless.

The bottom half of the third saw the Pioneers get on the board. After fighting back from an 0-2 count, freshman Chelsea McEachran secured a walk to start the inning. Freshman shortstop Ashlee Coronado moved McEachran over on a sacrifice bunt putting a runner on second for junior Sarah Hasenfus, who reached on an infield single to put two on for freshman Emily Montanez. The first baseman drove a fly ball to center which was deep enough to bring McEachran in and give East Bay a 1-0 lead.

A lead off double to center from Kristine Mihara in the fourth chased Schorn from the game. Zweigle picked up where Schorn had left off, keeping the Silverswords off the board despite Mihara moving to third with one out. Korras and Zweigle exchanged scoreless innings in the fourth and fifth before the Pioneers added an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth. A one-out single from Boone, followed by a steal by pinch runner Sarah Davini and a ground out by Freiberg put a runner on third for Sara Holdridge. The freshman reached on an error, bringing Davini in to score to seal the win for East Bay.

With the win, the Pioneers advanced to the second round of elimination play in the Bronze Bracket, meeting Notre Dame de Namur. The Argonauts got off to a quick start, putting together a walk and two singles to take a 1-0 lead before Schorn got out of the inning. After being sat down in order in the first, the Pioneers got on the board in the bottom of the second. A pair of singles off the bats of Boone and Holdridge led off the inning before Freiberg came to the plate and pinch runner Tia Wunder scored on the second passed ball of the inning. Freiberg singled to put runners on the corners before NDNU starter Mary Ortega ended the threat and the Pioneers stranded two.

Following a quiet third for both squads, NDNU took a 3-1 lead with two runs on two hits in the top of the fourth. East Bay responded in the bottom half, as Freiberg reached on an error with one out before sophomore Breezy Johnson and freshman Devon Mercurio walked to load the bases. McEachran cashed in on the situation, driving a single to bring in Freiberg and cut the lead to one. With one out, Coronado took a pitch to the helmet, bringing Johnson in to tie the score 3-3 and chase Ortega from the circle. Reliever Michele McMahon got the job done with a line out and a pop up to end the inning.

Things settled down after that, as neither team would score again for three and a half innings. Tied 3-3 going into the bottom of the seventh, the Pioneers stepped in against NDNU's third pitcher of the game, Kristina Sewell. With one out, Montanez was hit by a pitch to put one on for Boone, who doubled before a pop up left two on with two outs for Freiberg. The Argonauts intentionally walked Freiberg, but Sewell sent ball four to the backstop, allowing pinch runner Mary Ogden to come in to score the game winner and send the Pioneers to the Bronze Bracket title game.

The Bronze Bracket championship saw the Pioneers and Jacks meet for the first time this season ahead of next weekend's CCAA series in Arcata. After a pair of scoreless innings that saw the two starters allow just two combined hits, Humboldt State got on the board in the bottom of the third. Sammi Gilbert led off with a double to left and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt before Nikki Ketteringham tripled to right to give the Jacks a 1-0 lead. HSU wasn't done, adding another two hits and two runs to take a 3-0 lead into the fourth.

Freiberg managed a two-out double in the top of the fourth, but Humboldt State starter Vaneza Hoover got out of the inning. Schorn held the Jacks scoreless in the bottom half of the inning and sophomore Breezy Johnson led off the fifth with a triple to right but the Pioneers could not bring her in to score, grounding out to Hoover twice in the inning.

Humboldt State tacked on another four runs on six hits in the bottom of the fifth, chasing Schorn and Zweigle from the game before junior Dani Foster got Lindsay Warren to line into a double play with the bases loaded to keep the game going with HSU leading 7-0 through five innings. East Bay got another one-out hit in the top of the sixth but could not convert, leaving its fifth runner on base. Humboldt State went on to finish things off in the bottom of the sixth, getting a pinch-hit double from Claire Hoose with two on to drive in the eighth run and clinch the run-rule victory.

Schorn finished the day with one win and eight strikeouts in 10.1 innings, while Zweigle picked up the other victory, throwing eight innings and striking out four on day three of the tournament. Boone led the Pioneers on the day, going 4-for-9 at the plate, while McEachran went 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI in the two wins on Sunday.

裸聊直播 returns to action this Wednesday, hosting Menlo College for a doubleheader at Pioneer Field before heading north to meet Humboldt State for a pair of doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday. Wednesday's first pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Hayward.