Steven Guersch

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Biola BU-SB 12-5

Dominican DUC-SB 3-12

Biola BU-SB

12-5

Final

Feb. 28, 2022

Dominican DUC-SB

3-12

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Biola BU-SB	0	0	2	2	2	1	1	8	15	0
Dominican DUC-SB	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	10	2

W: Roybal, Raylene (4-2) L: Caravalho, Kathryn (0-3)

Game Recap: Softball | February 28, 2022

Swiping A Win

Biola steals four bases and scores eight times in emphatic game two win.

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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — The offense made up for its lack of spark in game one with a game two explosion as Biola Softball completed its doubleheader sweep of Dominican on Monday by winning the nightcap emphatically, 8-2.

Biola scored in every inning from the third through the end of the game to put up its second-highest run total of the 2022 season and secure a fourth-consecutive win.

The eight-run outburst came in support of Raylene Roybal, who picked up her fourth victory of the season after entering in relief of Kylee Messmer in the second inning. Roybal went five and two-thirds after getting out of a big jam in that second inning. She allowed a single run in the third and another in the fifth but mostly kept the Penguins' bats on ice.

The Eagles scored a pair of runs in the third and a third in the fourth to chase Dominican's Kathryn Caravalho and accumulate enough runs already to lock the game down.

Maddie Riley manufactured some offense to open the scoring as she singled, stole second and then made it home on an Abie Nowak single to put BU up 1-0. The other Nowak, Brie, singled home her sister in the next at-bat and doubled the BU lead.

In the fourth inning, a Kaitlyn Hawkins leadoff two-bagger got things going for BU. She'd come around to score on a Dominican defensive miscue when Rilee Ruvalcaba tried to sacrifice. Another steal, this time from Ruvalcaba, set up the second run of the inning as she worked her way to third base and was driven in by a Riley single.

At that point it was 4-1 Eagles, but in the bottom of the fourth inning Dominican seemed set to make a dent in the lead as they led off with back-to-back singles to have two on and nobody away. Roybal got a pop-up, a groundout and then a swinging strikeout to dance out of danger and maintain the three-run lead.

The lead grew against a new pitcher in the top of the fifth as the Nowak sisters again found themselves smack in the middle of the Biola offense with back-to-back hits to leadoff the inning. Alexis Lara pinch-ran for Brie and stole another bag for BU (one of four for Biola in the ballgame) to set up second and third with no one out.

Bridgette Trujillo nearly left the yard, but instead hit a sacrifice fly to score Abie Nowak. After that, Hawkins came up and continued to rip the cover off the ball. She hit a double to score Lara and make it 6-1 BU.

Hawkins was 3-for-4 in this ballgame with a pair of extra-base hits, and she now has nine hits through the first six games of this road trip, including five for extra bases and five RBI. She had one RBI and two hits on the season at the start of this trip.

Dominican squeaked one across in their half of the fifth, but further damage was once again limited by an inning-ending swinging strikeout from Roybal. She had six strikeouts and no walks in her effort this afternoon.

Biola got one more in the sixth and another in the seventh to bring the game final at 8-2 courtesy a whopping 15 hits. That's a new season-high for the team by four whole hits. They had 11 against Holy Names on 2/26/22.

Hawkins and Abie Nowak each went 3-for-4 to lead the charge for Biola. The Eagles, however, also got two-hit efforts out of Maddie Riley, Jennifer Morinishi, Brie Nowak and Rilee Ruvalcaba.

The four stolen bases in this game is the most this year for Biola. It's the most the Eagles' have had in any single game since back in May 2019 when the team swiped five against Judson in the NCCAA World Series.

The victory improves BU to 10-5 overall and 5-1 in PacWest Conference play. The Eagles face Dominican (3-12, 0-6 PacWest) two more times on Tuesday at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to close out this 8-game NorCal road trip.

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