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Washington Returns To WCWS After 6-0 Win
May 26, 2018 | Softball
SEATTLE – The #5 Washington Huskies advanced to the Women's College World Series with a rousing 6-0 victory over the #12 Alabama Crimson Tide. Washington took the lead on just the second pitch of the game and never looked back, picking up its 49th win of the year to advance to Oklahoma City. This is the 13th WCWS trip for the Huskies and second in a row.
Taran Alvelo earned her first shutout of the postseason in her second start, allowing only four baserunners and striking out eight. Alvelo let just two runners reach scoring position all game and did not allow multiple baserunners in the same inning at all. The junior is 22-4 on the season after today's win.
Van Zee's leadoff home run on the game's second pitch set the tone for the game, as the Huskies put themselves in the driver's seat early. That homer was part of a two-run first, as Washington recorded four hits in the first frame. Sis Bates, who reached via a bunt single, would score the game's second run when Kirstyn Thomas roped a single up the middle.
Alvelo allowed a single in the first but rebounded with a strikeout looking, one of her six strikeouts looking. After that single, Alvelo retired the next five batters she faced.
Noelle Hee added to Washington's lead with her seventh home run of the season. The freshman ripped a shot well over the wall and past the Husky eyes in centerfield in the fourth, making it 3-0.
Alvelo responded to Hee's home run in outstanding fashion, protecting the lead with a 1-2-3 bottom of the fourth. She would retire 12 of the next 14 batters, broken up only by an error and a single.
Three more runs for Washington began with Julia DePonte's double off the rightfield wall in the fifth. DePonte had fallen behind 0-2 in the count but worked it back full before blasting the two-bagger. Thomas would single up the middle after that to make it 4-0.
Kelly Burdick's single through the left side with the bases loaded and Van Zee's RBI walk made it a three-run inning, pushing the final margin to 6-0. Alvelo would strike out the first two batters of the seventh inning before an easy flyout to DePonte sent the Huskies to Oklahoma City.
Notes
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Taran Alvelo earned her first shutout of the postseason in her second start, allowing only four baserunners and striking out eight. Alvelo let just two runners reach scoring position all game and did not allow multiple baserunners in the same inning at all. The junior is 22-4 on the season after today's win.
Van Zee's leadoff home run on the game's second pitch set the tone for the game, as the Huskies put themselves in the driver's seat early. That homer was part of a two-run first, as Washington recorded four hits in the first frame. Sis Bates, who reached via a bunt single, would score the game's second run when Kirstyn Thomas roped a single up the middle.
Alvelo allowed a single in the first but rebounded with a strikeout looking, one of her six strikeouts looking. After that single, Alvelo retired the next five batters she faced.
Noelle Hee added to Washington's lead with her seventh home run of the season. The freshman ripped a shot well over the wall and past the Husky eyes in centerfield in the fourth, making it 3-0.
Alvelo responded to Hee's home run in outstanding fashion, protecting the lead with a 1-2-3 bottom of the fourth. She would retire 12 of the next 14 batters, broken up only by an error and a single.
Three more runs for Washington began with Julia DePonte's double off the rightfield wall in the fifth. DePonte had fallen behind 0-2 in the count but worked it back full before blasting the two-bagger. Thomas would single up the middle after that to make it 4-0.
Kelly Burdick's single through the left side with the bases loaded and Van Zee's RBI walk made it a three-run inning, pushing the final margin to 6-0. Alvelo would strike out the first two batters of the seventh inning before an easy flyout to DePonte sent the Huskies to Oklahoma City.
Notes
- This was the 14th time this season Washington has record 13 or more hits.
- Trysten Melhart (2x4) has hit .428 in this year's postseason.
- Alvelo (7.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 8 K) now has 75 career wins, making her the eighth Husky ever to win that many.
- Alvelo is also the eighth Husky to record 20 career shutouts and the seventh with a double-digit shutout season.
- Taryn Atlee (2x3, R) has scored five runs in five postseason games.
- Thomas (2x4, 2 RBI) has seven RBI in the last seven games.
- Van Zee (1x3, R, HR, 2 RBI, BB) now has 70 hits on the year, joining Sis Bates as the first Husky duo with 70+ hits each since Kelly Hauxhurst, Jenny Topping, Jaime Clark, and Rosie Leutzinger in 2000.
- Van Zee is now tied with Sara Pickering for fifth in UW history in runs scored.
Make sure to follow Husky softball on Twitter with the username @UWSoftball and on Instagram at uwsoftball.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Alvelo, Taran (22-4)
L: Courtney Gettins (14-5)
Batting:
2B: DePonte, Julia 1
HR: Van Zee, Taylor 1 ; Hee, Noelle 1
RBI: Van Zee, Taylor 2 ; Thomas, Kirstyn 2 ; Hee, Noelle 1 ; Burdick, Kelly 1
SH: DePonte, Julia 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Van Zee, Taylor 1 ; Bates, Sis 1 ; Gibson, Kaija 1 ; Hee, Noelle 2 ; Atlee, Taryn 1
CS: Thomas, Kirstyn 1 ; Atlee, Taryn 1
Batting:
SH: Claire Jenkins 1
Game Leaders
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