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Lopes inch closer to school record in sweep of Swords
3/29/2009 6:43:15 PM | Softball
Softball
3-29-09
Lopes inch closer to school record in sweep of Swords
Grand Canyon University moved within one game of matching the school record for wins in a season aftersweeping Chaminade University, 3-2 and 13-5 Sunday at Stapleton-Pierson Stadium.
The Antelopes (27-17, 10-7 PacWest) also kept pace with Hawai'i at Hilo for third place in the league, and closed to within two games of Dixie State for second place after the Red Storm lost to BYU-Hawaii a day earlier. Chaminade slipped to 5-25 overall, 4-12 in the PacWest.
GCU starter Jessica Palma (pictured) improved to 11-6 overall, winning the first game. She allowed three hits, one earned run and two walks and struck out four. She is within three wins of matching Alex Hawley's school record for victories in a season, set in 2004.
Tracy Lubken and Yasmeen Watkins each belted home runs in the opener, and Nikki Lorenzi went 1 for 2 with a triple as the Lopes scored a run in each of the first three innings and held off Chaminade's middle-inning charge.
Lubken was 3 for 3 with two RBI in the Game 1 win. No other Antelope had more than one of the team's eight hits.
In the second game, Lorenzi was 3 for 3 with an RBI, and Kelli Bridges was 2 for 3 with three RBI as the Antelopes scored five runs in second and responded from the Silverswords three-run fifth by tacking on four more in the sixth to end the game in a mercy rule.
It was the Lopes' sixth sweep of the season.
Kara Holtorf was 2 for 4 with four RBI and a stolen base. Randi Johns was 2 for 4 with her team-leading 12th double of the season. Tana Holtorf went 2 for 5 with an RBI and her eighth two-bagger. Watkins drove in a run, moving into a tie with Johns for the team lead in RBI with 47. They are 15away from Watkins' school record of 62 set last year.
Lorenzi extended her hitting streak to nine games, her longest of the season, and moved within one of the school mark of 10 set by numerous players.
Sammi Tiefenthaler won her 10th game of the year in the nightcap, allowing five hits, three runs, one earned, and three walks while fanning three in four innings of work. Natasha Dypchey, tabled for the past two weeks with a back injury, worked the final two innings, allowing three hits and two runs in relief.
The Antelopes host BYU-Hawaii at noon Monday in the final home games of the season.
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