LA VERNE, Calif. – Janae Townsend hit a
two-out grand slam in the top of the seventh inning of Game 1 and
Amanda Carrasco followed her up with a solo shot
as the long ball helped the Poets earn a double header split with
La Verne on Tuesday afternoon at Wheeler Park.
The Poets entered the final inning tied at five with the
Leopards but a six spot snapped their skid at four games. WC won
the first game 11-6.
Townsend's four RBI homerun was only the start of her day.
She was 3-for-4 in the first game with five runs batted in and one
run scored. Not to be outdone, Carrasco was 4-for-5 with four RBIs
and one run scored.
The fifth and sixth batters combined for seven of WC's 17
hits in the first game.
Whittier jumped out to a four run lead after two innings.
Carrasco drove in Kellie Canida for the first run
of the game and Jennifer Luders started a
three-run second with a leadoff, solo, homerun. Townsend and
Carrasco had back-to-back RBI singles to put the Poets up 4-0.
La Verne answered with two runs in the third and after the Poets
added an insurance run in the fourth the Leopards evened the game
with a three-run fifth.
Heather Dady started and went all 7.0 innings.
She gave up six runs (four earned) on 10 hits with one strike out
and no walks. She improved her season record to 3-1.
Canida added three hits out of the leadoff spot and Mary
Pacheco scored three runs while going 2-for-4 from the
dish.
Luders, Cynthia Loza and Ashley
Perez all had a hit in the first game.
Whittier's bats quieted in the second game as they only
managed five hits. Jessica Rosnack held La Verne
to just six hits but it wasn't enough as ULV pulled out a 4-3
win.
WC scored first in the top of the second on a two-out solo
homerun by Luders but La Verne answered with a pair of runs in the
home half of the inning.
In the fourth inning Brenda Thompson tied the
score at two with an RBI single and a bases loaded walk to
Molly Yriarte gave the Poets a 3-2 lead. Rosnack
sat the Leopards down in order in the bottom of the fourth but a
two-RBI double in the fifth proved to be the difference.
Rosnack went 6.0 innings and gave up four runs on six hits with
two strike outs. Thompson had two hits for Whittier while Canida,
Pacheco and Luders all had one.
The Poets have a short turnaround as they host Menlo College on
Thursday afternoon at 1:30 and 3:30 pm.
