BERKELEY – The California softball team fell, 10-1, in six innings to No. 2 UCLA as the Bruins took the series in a rain-soaked finale Sunday at Levine-Fricke Field.
The Bears (18-6, 1-2 Pac-12) were held to just three hits – an
Acacia Anders double and singles off the bats of
Tatum Anzaldo and
Sophie Medellin – off of UCLA starter Brooke Yanez.
Cal struggled to get the bats going against Yanez for the second time in the series after she threw five innings of one-hit shutout ball in Friday's series opener. After a rain delay of an hour and 20 minutes to start the game, the UCLA senior transfer struggled to find the strike zone in the first inning.
Yanez walked four batters in the opening frame, including one with the bases loaded to give Cal its only run of the game as
D'Asha Saiki drew the RBI free pass. She settled down from there and scattered three hits the rest of the way, earning her ninth win of the season for UCLA.
The Bruins were powered offensively by a Megan Grant two-run home run in the first and a Maya Brady three-run shot in the fifth.
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Cal hosts Fresno State on Wednesday, March 15, with a 2 p.m. first pitch scheduled from Levine-Fricke Field.
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