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Team celly
9
Winner Biola BU-SB 25-17, 18-11 PacWest
0
Academy of Art AAU-SB 9-43, 6-23 PacWest
Winner
Biola BU-SB
25-17, 18-11 PacWest
9
Final
0
Academy of Art AAU-SB
9-43, 6-23 PacWest
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Biola BU-SB 3 1 0 0 0 2 3 9 14 1
Academy of Art AAU-SB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

W: Austin, Paige (14-5) L: Rhoades, Jolene (6-19)

Game Recap: Softball |

Five Straight

The Eagles picked up their fifth-straight win with a shutout in game one on Friday.

BRISBANE, Calif. --- Keeping with the theme of the series so far, Biola Softball earned a win by a wide margin during Friday's opening tilt with Academy of Art.

Paige Austin surpassed 200 strikeouts on the season with a 15-K effort in a complete game shutout of the Urban Knights.

Biola piled on late to earn a 9-0 victory to seal the series win over ART U, scoring 10, 7 and 9 runs in the first three contests.

Biola scored three runs in the first inning and three in the last inning to account for two-thirds of the scoring.

The last inning production was in part due to a switch-hit single from Sicili Brittingham, who led the inning off with a hit to left center. Batting from the other side of the plate was her "senior wish" granted by head coach Kristin Halte.

Game one was all about celebrating the Eagles' seniors in what is most likely the team's final hurrah together.

Jennifer Morinishi was feeling very celebratory as the Biola lead off batter went 5-for-5 in this one with three of her five hits being doubles. She scored once and drove in two others to set the tone for the BU boppers.

Brittingham went 2-for-3 and scored twice and both Caitlin Fowble and Kiana Meriales got in on the run production. Meriales had a hit and scored and Fowble drove in two runs with a 6th-inning single.

In what was likely her final start for the Eagles, Austin had about as Austinesque a performance as Halte could ask for.

She owned the outside part of the plate and was sending ART U batters back to the dugout looking on repeat all game long.

Her 15 strikeouts is the second-most she's piled on in an outing this season and it brought her total to 203. She's just the second pitcher in program history to eclipse 200 in a single year, joining Reba DePriest.

She held the Urban Knights to just two hits and two walks, surely improving her shot at being the NCAA Division II statistical champion in both WHIP and hits-per-7-innings.

Biola scored in every inning but the third, fourth and fifth. They turned a pedestrian 4-0 lead into a dominant 9-0 lead with five runs during their last two at-bats.

Hailey Paul was another Eagle to have multiple RBI in this game. The freshman continued her productive second half of the season with a two-run double in the seventh. 

Rilee Ruvalcaba was also seeing the ball very well, reaching base with two hits and a walk. 

All told, the Eagles had 14 total hits off the pair of ART U hitters.

The win makes it five in a row for Biola, which improves to 25-17 for the season and 18-11 in conference play.

The regular season finale follows this one up at ART U.
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