Cougars Split Doubleheader with Central Arizona
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Central Arizona College | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
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South Mountain Community College | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 1 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Central Arizona College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 3 |
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South Mountain Community College | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
PHOENIX ---
The South Mountain Community College softball team (9-7, 9-5 ACCAC) split an Arizona Community College Athletic Conference doubleheader against Central Arizona on Mar. 30, falling 4-1 in the first game before responding with a 13-4 (6) victory in the second game. Freshman Jackie Traughber threw all 13 innings in the circle for the Cougars and picked up her fifth win of the season. Offensively, Tori Van Arsdale had five RBIs in the second game and Alexa Key and Mia Stankiewicz scored three runs as the Cougars snapped a six-game losing streak to the Vaqueras.
Game One
The Cougars jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the third, but Central Arizona scored four runs across the fourth, fifth and sixth inning to win the game.
Traughber led SMCC with two hits and had the team's RBI. Stankiewicz scored a run and had a double, and Key and Van Arsdale had the other SMCC hits.
In the circle, Traughber had four strikeouts and allowed two earned runs in 7.0 innings of work.
Game Two
South Mountain CC responded strongly in the second game, totaling 10 hits, 13 runs and 11 stolen bases in six innings to split the doubleheader with a 13-4 victory.
Van Arsdale finished 3-for-3 with five RBIs, two runs, two stolen bases, a walk and a triple. Traughber added two hits and a stolen base to go with 6.0 innings of work in the circle. She had three strikeouts and two unearned runs to improve to 5-2 on the season.
Key was 1-for-2 with three runs, three stolen bases and two walks, while Stankiewicz added three runs, an RBI, two walks and three stolen bases. Taylor Mount had a two-run double and Destiny Apodaca went 1-for-2 with a run scored and two stolen bases. Natalie Torres added a two-run single and Jaudrey Ah Quin scored twice.
The Cougars struck early, scoring five runs in the first two innings to take a 5-2 lead. They added two runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and Mount ended the game with a two-run double in the sixth as SMCC scored six times.
South Mountain CC returns to action on Saturday, April 3 with an ACCAC doubleheader at Pima Community College. The first game starts at noon.