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Three Big Innings Help Huskies Clinch Series With 10-0 Win
March 30, 2018 | Softball
STANFORD, Calif. – The #1 Washington Huskies picked up a 10-0 win over the Stanford Cardinal Friday, scoring multiple runs in three innings. Washington would run-rule Stanford, winning in six innings. Four different Huskies drove in multiple runs while Taylor Van Zee and Kirstyn Thomas both had three-hit days.
Gabbie Plain retired the first ten batters she faced in the game and only allowed one runner to advance past first all day. The freshman earned her tenth win of the year with her tenth scoreless outing of the season. Plain struck out six and walked only one while allowing just three hits total in the game.
Four runs in the third, all with two outs, put Washington on top for good. The rally began with Thomas' line-drive single to right, with the senior coming around to score when Julia DePonte rapped a double off the right-center wall.
Maggie Gallagher would bring DePonte home two batters later. Gallagher singled up the middle, with DePonte leaping out of the way of a tag attempt by the catcher and touching home safely to make it 2-0. Amirah Milloy would blast a double to score two more in the inning after that.
Thomas, DePonte, and Emma Helm all drove in runs in the fourth as well. Thomas' infield single knocked down by the third baseman scored Kelly Burdick, while DePonte avoided another tag, this time by the first baseman, to allow Van Zee to score. Helm would end the day with two sacrifice flies, scoring Thomas in the fourth and Kaija Gibson in the sixth.
Gibson hit her first career triple in the sixth to bring two runs home before scoring on Helm's sac fly. Gibson hit a hot line drive into center that rolled past a diving centerfielder all the way to the wall to score Thomas and Trysten Melhart. Thomas had previous reached base on a single, her 100th collegiate hit.
Notes
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Gabbie Plain retired the first ten batters she faced in the game and only allowed one runner to advance past first all day. The freshman earned her tenth win of the year with her tenth scoreless outing of the season. Plain struck out six and walked only one while allowing just three hits total in the game.
Four runs in the third, all with two outs, put Washington on top for good. The rally began with Thomas' line-drive single to right, with the senior coming around to score when Julia DePonte rapped a double off the right-center wall.
Maggie Gallagher would bring DePonte home two batters later. Gallagher singled up the middle, with DePonte leaping out of the way of a tag attempt by the catcher and touching home safely to make it 2-0. Amirah Milloy would blast a double to score two more in the inning after that.
Thomas, DePonte, and Emma Helm all drove in runs in the fourth as well. Thomas' infield single knocked down by the third baseman scored Kelly Burdick, while DePonte avoided another tag, this time by the first baseman, to allow Van Zee to score. Helm would end the day with two sacrifice flies, scoring Thomas in the fourth and Kaija Gibson in the sixth.
Gibson hit her first career triple in the sixth to bring two runs home before scoring on Helm's sac fly. Gibson hit a hot line drive into center that rolled past a diving centerfielder all the way to the wall to score Thomas and Trysten Melhart. Thomas had previous reached base on a single, her 100th collegiate hit.
Notes
- This was the 17th shutout this season for UW and third in Pac-12 play.
- Washington has now scored double-digit runs nine times this year.
- Plain (6.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 6 K) became the seventh freshman since 2000 to record double-digit wins with her tenth this season.
- Plain now has 87 strikeouts on the season. Plain and Taran Alvelo make up the first Husky duo with 85+ strikeouts in the same season since 2014.
- Burdick (1x3, R) has now gone 50 games in a row without committing an error, stretching back to last season.
- Burdick has scored a run in six of the last seven games she recorded a hit.
- Thomas (3x4, 3 R, RBI) became the first player in the nation to record 40+ runs and 40+ RBI.
- Thomas also recorded her 100th career hit in the game.
- This was the fourth multi-RBI game of the season for Milloy (2x3, 2B, 2 RBI).
- In her last five games, Gallagher (1x1, RBI) has driven in four runs.
- Helm (0x1, R, 2 RBI) has driven in five runs and scored four over the last four games.
Make sure to follow Husky softball on Twitter with the username @UWSoftball and on Instagram at uwsoftball.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Plain, Gabbie (10-1)
L: Lee, C. (1-2)
Batting:
2B: DePonte, Julia 1 ; Milloy, Amirah 1
3B: Gibson, Kaija 1
RBI: Thomas, Kirstyn 1 ; DePonte, Julia 2 ; Gibson, Kaija 2 ; Helm, Emma 2 ; Gallagher, Maggie 1 ; Milloy, Amirah 2
SF: Helm, Emma 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Van Zee, Taylor 1 ; Melhart, Trysten 1 ; Thomas, Kirstyn 3 ; DePonte, Julia 1 ; Gibson, Kaija 1 ; Helm, Emma 1 ; Atlee, Taryn 1 ; Burdick, Kelly 1
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