Gilroy
– A little less wind and a little more control on the mound
might have made the difference for the Gilroy softball team
Wednesday at Salinas High.
Gilroy – A little less wind and a little more control on the mound might have made the difference for the Gilroy softball team Wednesday at Salinas High.
But the ‘Stangs struggled, and dropped a 4-1 game, giving the Cowboys (10-8-1/1-3) their first TCAL win.
Gilroy fell to 1-3 in TCAL and 11-9 overall.
“It was an interesting day,” said Gilroy head coach Julie Berggren. “They just hit the ball where we weren’t and we hit the ball right where they were today.”
Salinas jumped on the board early, scoring two runs in the first inning, one in the third and one in the fifth to open up a 4-0 lead.
It wasn’t until the seventh inning that the ‘Stangs scored its first and only run.
Sophomore Patty Olvera, who went 2–for–3, led off the top of the seventh with a single. Sophomore first baseman Erin Magill followed with another single.Sophomore Amanda Tellez’s sacrifice to short moved Olvera to third base and Magill to second, respectively. Sophomore Dana Schoeneman then hit a looping fly ball into center field for a single, which drove in Olvera.
“We had a chance at
the end,” Berggren said. “But we couldn’t score from there.
“We hit the ball hard into the wind that held (the ball) up,” she added. “If it hadn’t been so windy, we might have had a few more base hits.”
Junior hurler Sarah Villar, who struck out six, walked four and allowed just one extra–base hit, absorbed the loss for Gilroy. Her record dropped to 9–9.
The Mustangs play a make-up game at Aptos Friday at 4pm and host Hollister Tuesday.
