Updated at 8:40 p.m., Saturday, March 31, 2007
UH softball team splits with San Jose State
Advertiser Staff
The University of Hawai'i softball team earned a doubleheader split played to different extremes, losing 2-1 in eight innings against San Jose State and then winning 20-0 in five innings yesterday in San Jose, Calif.In the opener, Liz Perez scored the winning run when she raced from first on Kasey Igarta's double and rightfielder Richie-Anne Titcomb's errant throw. UH's Justine Smethurst had a career-high 12 strikeouts in the loss.
Titcomb made up for the error in the second game, hitting a grand slam in an 11-run second inning. The Rainbow Wahine's first nine batters of the inning scored runs.
Titcomb also hit a double and single. "I decided to stay on my backfoot (while batting)," Titcomb said of her second-game adjustment. "When I put pressure on my front foot, I tend to lunge."
Starting pitcher Kate Robinson hit her 13th home run of the season and drove in four runs. She allowed two hits in five innings to improve to 11-0.
