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Box Score 2 RENO, Nev. -- Sacramento State split a pair of games on the final day of the Wolf Pack Softball Classic at Hixson Park. The Hornets beat Pacific, 3-2, this morning before falling to Nevada, 6-2, in the afternoon.
With the split, the Hornets are now 14-11 overall, and finished the three-day tournament with a 1-3 record. That included a loss to Nevada on Friday and loss to Pacific on Saturday.
Sacramento State's Lewa Day (3) and Brianna Bowers (3) combined for six of the Hornets' 11 hits today.
Sophomore Carley Morfey, a transfer from San Jose State, was impressive in the win over Pacific. The right-hander allowed just seven hits (all singles) with no walks over seven innings in the complete win. Morfey (1-0) needed just 88 pitches to earn her first win in a Sacramento State uniform while stranding six runners on base.
In the win over Pacific, the Tigers scored twice in the top of the second to take a 2-0 lead. The Hornets got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Bowers' RBI-singles scored pinch runner Rylee Sager. Bowers made her first two starts of the season today after missing the first chunk of the year with injury.
Sacramento State tied the game at 2-2 in the sixth after freshman Lewa Day unloaded on a first-pitch homer to right field. For Day, it was her team-leading sixth round tripper of the season.
The Hornets walked things off in the seventh when a ground ball from Alondra Mejia was booted by Pacific third baseman Ralene Estrada allowing Bowers to score the game-winning run. Bowers had a one-out single, advanced to second base on a wild pitch, and took third on an infield hit from Morfey.
Bowers finished the game 2-for-3 with a run and an RBI while Day, Morfey and Katie Vretzos also had hits.
In the loss to Nevada, Sacramento State took a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the fifth before Nevada scored three times in the bottom half of the inning and twice more in the sixth. The Hornets had just six hits off Nevada starter Kendall Fritz (8-5), and scored in the fourth on a double play allowing Mo Spieth to score, and once more in the fifth on a Charizma Guzman single scoring Samantha Parish.
Marissa Bertuccio (5-2) took her second loss of the season, allowing eight hits and four runs over five innings. Jensen Main tossed an inning of relief. Day had a pair of hits, and has now hit safely in eight of her last nine games. Bowers, Spieth, Parish and Guzman also had hits.
Sacramento State returns to action next week when it takes part in the Easton Invitational in Fullerton, Calif. The Hornets open the tournament on Friday vs. both Long Beach State (4:30 p.m.) and Cal State Fullerton (7:00 p.m.). That will mark the Hornets' final non-conference tournament of the season before opening Big Sky Conference play on March 20-21 vs. Weber State.