TURLOCK — Stanislaus State head coach
Jessica Ventoza had to earn these two wins. In the end, her Warriors swept a doubleheader over Humboldt State on Thursday while helping their coach to a milestone.
The Warriors swept the Lumberjacks, 6-5 and 5-3, on Thursday to begin the team's final four-game series this season. Stanislaus State improved to 20-29 overall and 14-21 in the CCAA.
With a pair of wins, Ventoza became the second Stan State softball coach to reach No. 100.
The victories didn't come easy as one game went extra innings and the other the Warriors had to fend off a surging HSU team.
Game one went extra innings after the game started off with lots of offense. It was 3-2 by the time the first inning ended. However, it took an infield hit by
Kayla Fajardo in the eighth to score the game-winning run for the 6-5 eight-inning victory.
Freshman pitcher
Kyndra Marzorini threw all eight innings for the win. She gave up just one earned run on seven hits. Fajardo went 4-for-5 and scored twice.
Melissa Spencer had two hits, including a triple and drove in a run.
Deja Guzman also had two hits and drove in two runs and
Aliyah Garvin went 2-for-3.
In the nightcap,
Kylie Ragsdale was perfect after giving up a leadoff hit. She retired 15 straight batters until HSU rallied in the sixth to tie the game at 3-3. In the Stan State sixth Ragsdale helped her cause with a bases loaded single to the 4-3 lead.
Lia Tom added an insurance run with an one-out single up the middle for the two-run advantage.
Then Ragsdale sat the Lumberjacks down in order in the seventh to preserve the win.
Five Warriors — Fajardo, Spencer,
Alexus Martinez, Guzman and Ragsdale — each had two hits.