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Softball
6 p.m.
vs Pima CC
Grand Canyon University Athletics
Saturday, April 24
Riverside, Calif
12 p.m.
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19-26-1, 7-8
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California Baptist
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Grand Canyon
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California Baptist
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Photo by: CBU Athletics
Coons pitches complete-game win at CBU
4/24/2021 2:36:00 PM | Softball
Lopes take series finale from Lancers with Fifield's home run, 3 RBIs
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Grand Canyon softball team closed its series at California Baptist by taking an early lead and never looking back in a 4-0 win Saturday.
Lopes senior right-handed pitcher Lexy Coons threw her third complete game of the season and her first one with no earned runs since March 7, 2020. Sophomore center fielder Kristin Fifield made Coons' five-hitter stand up by knocking in three runs, including her fifth home run of the season.
Just like in the previous two games, the Lopes got on the board in the first inning. GCU junior left fielder Gianna Nicoletti started with a single up the middle and senior right fielder Tabitha Dyer followed with a single through the left side. With runners on second and third with one out, junior second baseman Savannah Tourville singled up the middle to score Nicoletti for a 1-0 edge.
GCU scored its second run when Fifield hit a ground ball to second base on the next at bat, allowing Dyer to score.
With Coons protecting that 2-0 lead through four scoreless Lopes innings, GCU added to its lead in the top of the sixth inning. Senior first baseman Lilly Bishop singled to right field and moved to second on Tourville's sacrifice bunt. Fifield worked a 3-1 count before slamming a home run over the center-field fence without any doubts, lifting the Lopes to a 4-0 lead.
Coons kept the Lancers off the board by stranding runners with inning-ending strikeouts in the first and fourth and getting a pop-up to the catcher when CBU put runners on second and third bases in the fifth inning. It was the Tucson native's 10th career complete game.
The win moved GCU (17-25, 6-6 WAC) back in front of CBU (19-26-1, 7-8 WAC) for third place in the conference standings.
The Lopes hit the road for the last time in the regular season next week, when they take on Tarleton in Stephenville, Texas, on April 30 and May 1.
Lopes senior right-handed pitcher Lexy Coons threw her third complete game of the season and her first one with no earned runs since March 7, 2020. Sophomore center fielder Kristin Fifield made Coons' five-hitter stand up by knocking in three runs, including her fifth home run of the season.
Just like in the previous two games, the Lopes got on the board in the first inning. GCU junior left fielder Gianna Nicoletti started with a single up the middle and senior right fielder Tabitha Dyer followed with a single through the left side. With runners on second and third with one out, junior second baseman Savannah Tourville singled up the middle to score Nicoletti for a 1-0 edge.
GCU scored its second run when Fifield hit a ground ball to second base on the next at bat, allowing Dyer to score.
With Coons protecting that 2-0 lead through four scoreless Lopes innings, GCU added to its lead in the top of the sixth inning. Senior first baseman Lilly Bishop singled to right field and moved to second on Tourville's sacrifice bunt. Fifield worked a 3-1 count before slamming a home run over the center-field fence without any doubts, lifting the Lopes to a 4-0 lead.
Coons kept the Lancers off the board by stranding runners with inning-ending strikeouts in the first and fourth and getting a pop-up to the catcher when CBU put runners on second and third bases in the fifth inning. It was the Tucson native's 10th career complete game.
The win moved GCU (17-25, 6-6 WAC) back in front of CBU (19-26-1, 7-8 WAC) for third place in the conference standings.
The Lopes hit the road for the last time in the regular season next week, when they take on Tarleton in Stephenville, Texas, on April 30 and May 1.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Coons, Lexy (3-3)
L: Kerisa Viramontes (14-10)
Batting:
HR: Fifield, Kristin 1
RBI: Tourville, Savannah 1 ; Fifield, Kristin 3
SH: Bishop, Lilly 1 ; Tourville, Savannah 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Nicoletti, Gianna 1 ; Dyer, Tabitha 1 ; Pierson, Jordan 1 ; Fifield, Kristin 1
SB: Nicoletti, Gianna 1
Batting:
2B: Abby Robertson 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
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RBI
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RBI
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AB
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RBI
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AB
2
R
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H
1
RBI
1
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