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Hailey Paull throwing a ballll
Aaron Rollins
0
Central Washington CWU 12-14
1
Winner Biola BU-SB 19-13
Central Washington CWU
12-14
0
Final
1
Biola BU-SB
19-13
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Central Washington CWU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
Biola BU-SB 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 1 3 0

W: Roybal, Raylene (7-7) L: Womack (5-5)

Game Recap: Softball |

One And Done

Biola manufactures one run in the fifth inning, which was all it would need for a win.

TURLOCK, Calif. — Biola Softball began its 2022 Tournament of Champions journey with an encouraging start. Behind a complete game shutout from Raylene Roybal the Eagles dismissed the Central Washington Wildcats by a slim margin of one run to none.

The Eagles joined Academy of Art, Azusa Pacific, Hawaii Hilo, Holy Names as victorious PacWest Conference teams in their opening contest of the tournament. Concordia University Irvine, Dominican and Chaminade all suffered losses in their opening tilts.

Roybal was the impetus to Biola's success on this day as she had her best outing of the year when the team called her number. She racked up eight strikeouts, walked only one and put just six total Wildcats on base in her second shutout of the season, and her first against NCAA Division II competition.

Biola was quiet offensively again, but it managed just enough offense to grab a much-needed non-conference win. The Eagles began their run-scoring fifth inning with a one-out single from the increasingly productive freshman Hailey Paull.

Paull moved up to second base on her batted ball when the CWU left fielder ran into some trouble in the outfield. A Rilee Ruvalcaba single then gave BU runners on the corners with still just the one out and the top of the lineup due up.

Jennifer Morinishi hit the ball to shortstop, where CWU's defense opted to get the out at second base and allowed the run to score. Morinishi was safe at first base and picked up her 11th RBI of the season.

Roybal set down the Wildcats in order in the sixth before running into a small spot of trouble in the game's final inning. The reason for the nerves was a leadoff single from Central Washington sophomore Makenna King. 

Roybal managed to work back-to-back strikeouts right after that, only throwing one ball over those two batters. Then, with King still stuck on first base and a full count on CWU's Karsyn Decker, she managed to induce a line-drive out to Ruvalcaba at short to pick up her seventh win of the season.

She had a fairly well-balanced outing, tying her season-high with eight strikeouts while getting eight outs via pop-up or lineout and then five outs on grounders.

Biola managed just three hits against the Wildcats' starter Isabel Womack. Abie Nowak joined Ruvalcaba and Paull with a single. She extended her team-best hitting streak out to 10 games.

This contest was Biola's third of four consecutive games against teams that participated in the 2021 NCAA Division II West Regional, which Biola won. Up next for Head Coach Kristin Halte's team is a 7 p.m. game with Western Washington (18-13).

This contest will have live scoring available to follow at https://otterathletics.com/sidearmstats/softball/summary.
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