SANTA BARBARA -- The BYU women's softball team lost to UC Santa Barbara 2-4, Thursday. The loss drops the Cougars below the .500 mark to 5-6 in their tough non-conference schedule.
The Gauchos struck first with two runs in the first to take a quick 2-0 lead. They scored two more in the third to make it a four run lead. The Cougars scored their only two runs of the game in the fifth off a two-run blast from All-American Oli Keohohou, her fifth of the season.
The Cougars had only 4 hits and committed three errors showing lack of both offense and defense.
BYU will face No. 7 Cal and Sacramento State tomorrow at 10 a.m.and 12:30 p.m. at the "Softball By the Beach" Invitational hosted by UC Santa Barbara.
Brigham Young at UC Santa Barbara
Feb 21, 2002 at Santa Barbara, Calif (Campus Diamond)
Brigham Young 2
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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VANDERLINDEN, Liz cf..... 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
JOHNSON, Jessica 3b...... 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0
BOYDSTON, Elizabeth 1b... 3 1 1 0 0 0 8 1 3
KEOHOHOU, Oli lf......... 3 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0
CADIENTE, Brooke rf...... 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
WATSON, Lauren c......... 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3
LAYNS, Arron c.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
FALLOWFIELD, Cynthia p... 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
PRINGLE, Kari 2b......... 3 0 0 0 0 1 5 1 0
WALKER, Kate ss.......... 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 0
Totals................... 27 2 4 2 3 7 18 12 9
UC Santa Barbara 4 (7-9)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
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Simien cf................ 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Beck rf.................. 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tamai ss................. 3 0 2 0 0 1 3 1 0
Adame pr................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trinidad dh.............. 4 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 4
Oliver 3b................ 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 1
Bolton c................. 3 1 1 1 0 0 7 0 0
Streed 1b................ 3 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 2
Pershing 2b.............. 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
Groefsema lf............. 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 1
Thornburg p.............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals................... 29 4 12 4 0 2 21 6 9
Score by Innings R H E
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Brigham Young....... 000 020 0 - 2 4 3
UC Santa Barbara.... 202 000 X - 4 12 2
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E - FALLOWFIELD; WALKER 2; Streed 2. LOB - BYU 9; UCSB 9. 2B - Trinidad(3).
HR - KEOHOHOU. HBP - BOYDSTON; KEOHOHOU. SH - Beck; Tamai. SB - Beck(3);
Adame(1). CS - Beck.
Brigham Young IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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FALLOWFIELD, Cynthia 6.0 12 4 3 0 2 29 31
UC Santa Barbara IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
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Thornburg........... 7.0 4 2 2 3 7 27 32
Win - Thornburg (4-5). Loss - FALLOWFIELD (). Save - None.
WP - FALLOWFIELD. HB - Thornburg 2. BK - FALLOWFIELD 2. PB - WATSON.
Umpires - Home:John Bennett 1st:Billy Vinovich 3rd:Ron Drovl
Start: 2:00 Time: 2:15 Attendance: 74
Game: UCSB1