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Husky Defense Helps Washington To 2-1 Win Over Texas
February 21, 2018 | Softball
AUSTIN, Texas – The #1 Washington Huskies matched their best start in the last six years, defeating the Texas Longhorns 2-1 on the road to move to 13-0 on the season. Kirstyn Thomas had a two-hit game including a triple, scoring the Huskies' first run on a Julia DePonte double. Trysten Melhart also went 2-for-3 in the game with a run.
Taran Alvelo earned her fifth win in as many games with another complete game. Alvelo struck out ten in the game and has 35 strikeouts over her last 19.0 innings.
Melhart, who scored the game's first run, made it four consecutive games with a run scored. The senior beat out two infield singles: in the fifth inning, she dropped a ball perfectly down the first base line to get on base and would later come around to score.
Thomas picked up the winning run in the game. The Texan tripled to lead off the sixth inning, the first triple of her career. DePonte would double over the head of the leftfielder one pitch later to bring Thomas across the plate with what would become the winning run.
Alvelo powered through the Texas batters, racking up strikeouts to help the Huskies to the win. After the Longhorns put two runners on with one out in the third, Alvelo needed just six pitches to end the inning with two punchouts in a row.
The Huskies would also erase a Texas baserunner in the fourth with a double play. The sure-handed Taryn Atlee glided in to grab a grounder, tagging the runner and tossing to Thomas at first to end the inning.
Texas would score one run in the sixth, just the sixth run scored against the Huskies all season. Alvelo shut down Texas from there, getting two strikeouts with a runner on third to end that inning and setting the side down in order in the seventh for the win.
Notes
Make sure to follow Husky softball on Twitter with the username @UWSoftball and on Instagram at uwsoftball.
Taran Alvelo earned her fifth win in as many games with another complete game. Alvelo struck out ten in the game and has 35 strikeouts over her last 19.0 innings.
Melhart, who scored the game's first run, made it four consecutive games with a run scored. The senior beat out two infield singles: in the fifth inning, she dropped a ball perfectly down the first base line to get on base and would later come around to score.
Thomas picked up the winning run in the game. The Texan tripled to lead off the sixth inning, the first triple of her career. DePonte would double over the head of the leftfielder one pitch later to bring Thomas across the plate with what would become the winning run.
Alvelo powered through the Texas batters, racking up strikeouts to help the Huskies to the win. After the Longhorns put two runners on with one out in the third, Alvelo needed just six pitches to end the inning with two punchouts in a row.
The Huskies would also erase a Texas baserunner in the fourth with a double play. The sure-handed Taryn Atlee glided in to grab a grounder, tagging the runner and tossing to Thomas at first to end the inning.
Texas would score one run in the sixth, just the sixth run scored against the Huskies all season. Alvelo shut down Texas from there, getting two strikeouts with a runner on third to end that inning and setting the side down in order in the seventh for the win.
Notes
- The 13-0 start by the Huskies is the best since a program-record 20-0 start in 2011.
- Alvelo (7.0 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 10 K) has three consecutive double-digit strikeout games, the first time in her career she has accomplished that and the first time by a Husky in over five years.
- Alvelo's scoreless streak ended after 31.1 innings. Only one other pitcher has thrown over 30.0 innings without allowing a run this year (Makayla Martin, Auburn).
- Van Zee (1x4, RBI) has at least one RBI in seven consecutive games.
- Bates (1x3) now has a 13-game hitting streak, which matches the Huskies' longest streak from all of 2017 (Taylor Van Zee, April 3-May 27).
- DePonte (1x3, 2B, RBI) now has driven in a run in five consecutive games, tied for her longest such streak (May 13-22, 2016).
- This was the first game this season the Huskies have not hit a home run. Washington has had multiple extra-base hits in every single game.
Make sure to follow Husky softball on Twitter with the username @UWSoftball and on Instagram at uwsoftball.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Alvelo, Taran (6-0)
L: von Sprecken (2-1)
Batting:
2B: DePonte, Julia 1
3B: Thomas, Kirstyn 1
RBI: Van Zee, Taylor 1 ; DePonte, Julia 1
SH: Helm, Emma 1 ; Ogasawara, Rachel 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Thomas, Kirstyn 1 ; Melhart, Trysten 1
Batting:
2B: von Sprecken 1
RBI: Tedder 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Ellsworth 1
SB: DerMargosian 1
Game Leaders
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