BRUINS DOUBLE UP ON YOUNG MATADORS : UCLA 6-8, CSUN 0-0.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer Youthful enthusiasm, of which the Cal State Northridge softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team seems to have plenty, only takes you so far. At least that's what the Matadors discovered Wednesday after being swept by UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX in their season-opening doubleheader. The host Bruins (9-0) broke open a tight first game in the fifth inning and won 6-0, then pounded freshman pitcher Summer Richardson for eight runs in the first inning of an eventual 8-0 game shortened to 4-1/2 innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. by the 8-run mercy rule A mercy rule, also well known by the slightly less polite term slaughter rule (or, less commonly, knockout rule and skunk rule), brings a sports event to an early end when one team has a very large and presumably insurmountable lead over the other team. . ``We didn't make great plays,'' CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge coach Janet Sherman said. ``We were not playing at the level we need to beat them, or anybody.'' Then again, UCLA, ranked third in the nation and among the favorites to win the national title, is good enough to take advantage of mistakes. Take Richardson's first inning. She walked three of the first four batters she faced, and all scored. She gave up back-to-back home runs to Casey Hiraiwa - the first in her two-year career - and to Christie Ambrosi. Richardson threw 43 pitches in that inning but settled down after that and gave up no more hits, finishing with five walks and two strikeouts. ``They're solid all the way through the lineup,'' she said. ``Every single one of them.'' There was more. UCLA stole six bases in the two games off junior Jamie Moore Jamie Moore can relate to:
``We've got some pretty nice hitters,'' UCLA coach Sue Enquist said. ``It's nice to see what we can create when we're disciplined.'' In the first game, CSUN pitcher Tara Glaister matched her counterpart, Courtney Dale, for three innings before UCLA's offense came alive. Glaister had a one-hit shutout through three and trailed only 1-0 through four when the Bruins batted around in the fifth. The big blow was a two-run home run that put UCLA ahead 5-0. Glaister finished with eight strikeouts in 4-1/3 innings. Dale (4-0) struck out nine and gave up just three singles: Jessica Creith's to start the game, Moore's in the fifth and Richardson's in the seventh. Richardson then was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. Creith was the only Matador matador In bullfighting, the principal performer, who works the capes and attempts to dispatch the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades. Most of the techniques used by modern matadors were established in the 1910s by Juan Belmonte (b. 1894–d. to get hits in both games. Amanda Freed Amanda Louise Freed (born December 26, 1979 in Fountain Valley, California) is an American softball player. She attended UCLA where she played softball. The Bruins have one of the best softball traditions in the nation, having won 10 of 24 championships. (5-0) won the second game with a three-hit, six-strikeout effort. She has yet to give up a run. Lupe Brambila, a Monroe graduate, started the first game in right field for UCLA and went 0 for 3 with a run scored. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO UCLA's Christie Ambrosi beats CSUN's Ashlie Hayes to second base on a wild pitch. Ambrosi homered in UCLA's doubleheader sweep. John McCoy/Daily News |
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