Seattle U takes 3rd game of series

Saturday, March 16

Seattle, Wash.

12 p.m.

Grand Canyon

22-7, 0

Seattle U

9-17, 0

Grand Canyon

Seattle U

Photo by: Adrianna Candelaria

3/16/2024 2:37:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

GCU becomes 22-6 on the season, 2-1 in the WAC

By: Adrianna Candelaria

SEATTLE, Wash. — Grand Canyon falls 5-2 to Seattle U on Saturday at Logan Field. GCU clinched the three-game series after sweeping Friday's double-header.

Seattle struck first, scoring on a Lopes error in the first, and was soon met by GCU in the second with a sacrifice fly by freshman catcher Tinley Lucas. The Lopes even took a brief lead in the third on a homerun to right field by graduate right fielder Kristin Fifield, but Seattle answered with two runs in the bottom of the fourth and sixth respectively.

Fifield, GCU's Division I career home run leader, tallied two homeruns in the series against the Redhawks and six on the season.

Freshman second baseman Savannah Groshong-Kirk led the Lopes with 3 hits but GCU was unable to capitalize on her ability to reach base; the Lopes left one runner on base each inning, outside of the seventh.

Junior pitcher Emily Darwin takes her first loss in the circle this season (4-1), with gradute pitcher Megan Schumacher and senior pitcher Hailey Hudson making appearances as well for a committee total of three strikeouts, three walks, eight hits and a 2.91 ERA.

GCU returns home, for the first time since March 3, to host Oregon State on Monday at 3 p.m. (Phoenix time), before hosting Utah Valley for a Friday-Saturday series.