UVa Softball Sweeps Doubleheader From Harvard
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March 28, 2000
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Fourth-year Stacey Zagol (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga)fired a two-hit shutout in the first game and second-year Kristen Dennis(Encinitas, Calif./ La Costa Canyon) threw a three-hit shutout in thesecond game to lead the Virginia softball team to a sweep over Harvard thisafternoon at The Park in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers won therain-shortened first game 4-0 and then posted a six-inning 8-0 win in thenightcap. With the two wins, the ‘Hoos improve to 13-25 on the season,while Harvard falls to 2-12.
In the first game of the doubleheader, Zagol (7-8) allowed just two hitsand walked one while striking out five in a 4-0 victory. Chelsea Thoke(0-5) took the loss for Harvard. The game was called after a one-hour and15-minute rain delay. First-year designated player Stephanie Calhoun(Spring Valley, Calif./Mount Miguel) and Dennis both had two hits in thegame. Calhoun added a RBI and Dennis scored a run.
Virginia scored all four of its runs in the first inning. Third-year rightfielder fielder Meaghan Young (Shrewsbury, Mass./Shrewsbury) led off thebottom of the first with a double and then scored on a throwing error bythe third baseman on fourth-year second baseman Amy Peay’s (Mechanicsville,Va./Atlee) sacrifice bunt. Peay then stole second and scored onfourth-year third baseman Karen Breshears’ (Camarillo, Calif./CornerChristian) double. Dennis singled to left to move Breshears to third.Breshears scored on Calhoun’s RBI double and Dennis then scored the fourthrun of the inning on a throwing error by the third baseman.
Dennis tossed a two-hit shout in UVa’s 8-0 win in the second game of thedoubleheader. She struck out eight batters in improving her record to 3-8.The “mercy rule” was invoked in the sixth inning when the Cavaliers builttheir lead to eight runs. Young was the hitting star in the nightcap asher three-run homer in the bottom of the sixth ended the game. She was 3-4in the contest with the home run, a double and a single. Young drove infour runs and scored two more. Second-year left fielder Kelly McCabe(Maple Glen, Pa./Upper Dublin) was 2-3 and scored two runs. She also stoleher team leading 19th base of the season. First-year designated playerRuby Rojas (Santa Ana, Calif./Mater Dei) drove in a pair of runs with adouble in Virginia’s four-run third inning.
Young scored what proved to be the game-winning run in the fourth inning.She led off the inning with a triple and scored on Breshears’ suicidesqueeze bunt. Rojas doubled in the next two Cavalier runs and she thenscored on Calhoun’s RBI triple.
Virginia returns to action tomorrow, Wednesday, March 29, when they hostUMBC in a doubleheader at The Park. The first game begins at 2:00 p.m.