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Maddie Riley swinging
Steven Guersch
4
Biola BU 10-8
5
Winner CUI CUI 21-0
Biola BU
10-8
4
Final
5
CUI CUI
21-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Biola BU 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 1
CUI CUI 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 9 3

W: Katlin Entrup (7-0) L: Austin, Paige (5-3)

Game Recap: Softball |

Nearly Knocked 'Em Off

Biola comes closer than anyone to beating No. 2 CUI, but falls in extra innings.

IRVINE, Calif. — In game one of Thursday's doubleheader, Biola Softball came closer to beating No. 2 Concordia University Irvine than any other team has yet in 2022. The Eagles (of La Mirada) came from behind to force extra innings before ultimately losing 5-4 in 10 innings when CUI scored their free baserunner in the international tiebreaker.

The win allowed Head Coach Crystal Rosenthal's Concordia contingent to improve to an impressive 21-0 this year. The one-run differential is the closest they've come to a loss all season long, and the only other time a team was within one was way back in the season-opener as CUI beat Northwest Nazarene by a score of 2-1.

The key to the competitiveness was early offense and another dazzling workhorse effort from ace Paige Austin. Biola pieced together two runs in their half of the first inning and scored two more times in the top of the fourth to immediately answer a three-run third inning for CUI and tie the game at four.

From that point on Austin and a trio of Concordia Irvine pitchers did battle, throwing up 12-consecutive zeros until CUI got a one-out base knock by a freshman to walk it off in the bottom of the 10th.

Biola outhit the host team 10-9 in the ballgame and also had three Concordia errors to play with, but 11 runners left on base would haunt BU in the extra-inning loss.

Allie Beck led the game off with a single to get the Biola lineup out on the right foot. She was sacrificed to third and then scored a batter later as Jennifer Morinishi hit a double and found her place at second base super fired up.

A nice piece of opposite field hitting from Sicili Brittingham would push home Morinishi and put Biola in the cat birds' seat up 2-0 with one of the nation's best in the circle.

The lead held up until that 3-run third inning when Concordia strung together four-consecutive base runners via three singles and a hit-by-pitch and then saw a two-out, two-bagger score a pair. That gave CUI the 4-2 advantage at the time.

Despite the determined rally from the home team, Biola dug deep and found offense of its own in the next frame to bring it level once more. It's an inning that went well, but had room to go even better as the Eagles loaded the bases with nobody out. They cashed in on one of those runs immediately, but then managed just one more to score while committing the next three outs.

After the game became tied, Paige Austin locked in to the next level. Between Concordia's fourth and ninth innings she allowed just two hits and struck out nine batters, including four-consecutive inning-ending strikeouts between the sixth and ninth.

Austin would finish the game with nine and a third innings pitched, 12 strikeouts and just shy of 170 pitches. 

After Biola could not get its free base runner around in the first inning of the international tiebreaker, CUI used a sacrifice bunt and one-out single to steal the game and stay perfect.

Brittingham was seeing the ball well all game, getting three hits off the three CUI pitchers. Morinishi and Rilee Ruvalcaba each also had multi-hit games with a pair of knocks.

The loss drops Biola to 10-8 on the year. The two teams are locked in game two beginning just after 7 p.m. in Irvine. That game is available at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/cui/stats.htm?eventId=686480&streamType=video

 
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