Bellarmine 20 Mt. Tahoma 5

March 28, 2013         Mount Tahoma              4:00

Bellarmine        6 3 8   1 2      20 – 25 - 1

Mount Tahoma      0 0 0   5 0       5 -  3 - 5

Erica Grenlund and Abby McDonald

Nancy LaPointe-McCloud and Bailee Larson

      Becca Sorensen beat out an infield single to open the game and then stole second.  Rachel Barcena was safe on an error.  Alyssa McKiernan singled to load the bases.  Ashlynn Ota lined a single to left to score Sorensen and Barcena and to move McKiernan to third.  Celine Woo was safe on an error to score McKiernan and to move Ota to second.  Rachel Sorensen singled to right to score Ota and to move Woo to third.  Erica Grenlund singled infield to score Woo and to move Sorensen to second.  Abby McDonald singled infield to load the bases.  After an out Becca Sorensen hit a sacrifice fly to left to score her sister Rachel Sorensen.

      Alyssa McKiernan singled to left to open the second and took second when the throw to second was wild.  Ashlynn Ota singled to center to score McKiernan.  Celine Woo singled to right to move Ota to second.  Rachel Sorensen singled to right to score Ota and to move Woo to third.  Erica Grenlund beat out an infield single to load the bases and Woo (who had held at third) scored when the third baseman’s throw to first was wild.

      Becca Sorensen singled to left to open the third.  Rachel Barcena singled to center to move Sorensen to second.  Alyssa McKiernan was hit by a pitch to load the bases.  Ashlynn Ota doubled to center to score Sorensen, Barcena, and McKiernan.  Celine Woo doubled to left center to score Ota.  After two outs Abby McDonald tripled to right center to score Woo.  Mikaela Kelly singled infield to score McDonald.  Becca Sorensen singled to left to move Kelly to second.  Rachel Barcena singled infield to load the bases.  Alyssa McKiernan singled to left to score Kelly and Sorensen.

      Celine Woo singled to center to open the fourth.  Madison Covell grounded out third to first to move Woo to second.  Erica Grenlund was hit by a pitch.  Abby McDonald singled infield to load the bases.  Mikaela Kelly hit a shot to left to score Woo.

      Mount Tahoma used an error, two walks, a single, another walk, and a triple to get five runs in the fourth.

      Rachel Barcena beat out an infield single to open the fifth.  After an out Ashlynn Ota doubled to left center to move Barcena to third.  Celine Woo was hit by a pitch to load the bases.  Madison Covell singled to left to score Barcena.  Erica Grenlund hit a fly to left to score Ota.

      Erica Grenlund started and went the distance for the win.  She struck out eight and all five runs were unearned.

      Three milestones occurred:  Mikaela Kelly got her first varsity hit an RBI single in the third, Madison Covell got her first varsity hit an RBI single in the fifth, and Erica Grenlund won her first varsity game.

      Good defensive plays were made by Ashlynn Ota who scooped up a low throw to first for the second out in the 3rd and by Becca Sorensen who went to her right to field a screamer up the middle and fed to Alyssa McKiernan to force the runner at second for the first out in the 4th. 

Bellarmine 4 North Thurston 3

March 27, 2013           RAC Lacey                 4:00

Bellarmine          1 1 0   1 0 1   0      4 – 13 - 2

North Thurston      0 0 0   1 2 0   0      3 -  5 - 3

Rachel Barcena, Courtney Schwan (5) and Abby McDonald

Sarah Davis and Alicia Feliciano

      Becca Sorensen walked to open the first.  After an out Alyssa McKiernan singled to left to move Sorensen to second.  Courtney Schwan’s grounder to third was fumbled to load the bases.  Rachel Sorensen grounded out second to first to score her sister Becca Sorensen.

      Celine Woo singled to left to open the second and took second when the ball got by the left fielder.  After an out Woo took third on a wild pitch.  After a second out Becca Sorensen singled to left to score Woo.

      Becca Sorensen ripped a single to left with one out in the fourth.  Rachel Barcena doubled to left center to move Sorensen to third.  Alyssa McKiernan beat out an infield single to score Sorensen.

      North Thurston used a single, a walk, a wild pitch, and an error to get a run in the fourth.

      North Thurston used a first pitch leadoff home run followed by another first pitch home run to get two runs in the fifth.

      Becca Sorensen rifled a double off of the third baseman with one out in the sixth.  Rachel Barcena singled to left on the next pitch to score Sorensen.

      Rachel Barcena started and pitched 4+ innings.  She struck out 10 including the side in both the third and fourth innings.  Courtney Schwan came on in relief with the game tied in the fifth.  She struck out the side in the fifth.  She retired all nine batters that she faced on a mere 27 pitches to get the win. 

      Good defensive plays were made by Celine Woo who raced to the fence to catch a foul pop up for the second out in the 1st; and by Courtney Schwan who went toward third to field a grounder and threw to Ashlynn Ota at first for the first out in the 7th.