Spartans Drop Wild Game at UCLA, 18-10

Saturday, March 14

Los Angeles, CA

9 PM

Michigan State University

13-12, 0-2

UCLA

24-3, 5-0

Michigan State

UCLA

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East Lansing, Mich. – No. 7 UCLA was able to hold off visiting Michigan State on Saturday in a wild, 18-10 victory for the Bruins in five innings. The Spartans scored all 10 runs in the final three innings and are now 13-12 (0-2 Big Ten). UCLA improves to 24-3 and remains perfect in Big Ten play at 5-0. Alex Starr, Natalie Lo

The game was wild from the outset, when Zoie Bernard led off the game with a triple. What unfolded over the next five innings was both remarkable and frustrating on each side, as the teams combined for 18 hits (nine per side) and nine errors (a season-high six for MSU). Reliever Brynne Nally earned the win for her Bears with three innings of relief work, allowing four runs on five hits, surrendering a pair of doubles and a solo home run by Hannah Hawley. Starter Carsyn Cassady took the loss for the Spartans (3-5), surrendering eight runs (only four earned) in the first inning.

Natalie Cable started the game for UCLA and did not earn a decision after tossing two innings, scattering six hits. UCLA's Jordan Wollery went 3-for-3 2ith four RBI, while Bri Alejandre led the team with five RBI on two hits and Rylee Simp drove in four.

The teams wrap up their three-game series on Sunday in a game that starts at 3 pm ET.

TOP PERFORMANCES

Zoie Bernard led off the game with a triple and added a third-inning RBI double, collecting a pair of RBI.
Hannah Hawley's fifth-inning homer was her fourth of the year. She went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs.
Kirsten Caravaca had singles in both the second and fourth innings
Sydney Doloszycki went 1-for-3 with a pair of RBI.
Britain Beshears delivered an RBI double in the fourth,
Sophia Grillo reached base three times. She contributed a base hit in the fourth and was hit by a pitch twice.

NOTABLES

The Spartans have turned a double play in each of the last six games and 12 overall on the year.
MSU surrendered the most runs it has allowed in a game this season. MSU's previous high came in a 16-13 loss to Charlotte.
The Spartans had baserunners in every inning, stranding five total.
The two teams combined for nine errors – six for MSU and three for UCLA.
Hannah Hawley now sits alone in fifth place in school history with 27 career round-trippers. She needs two to move into a fourth-place tie with Sarah Gutknecht.

HOW THINGS HAPPENED

The game started on a promising note, with a leadoff triple by Zoie Bernard, and with two out, Sophia Grillo was hit by a pitch. However, the Spartans stranded both runners. In the bottom of the first, the Bruins sent xx batters to the plate, recording eight runs. The Bruins added three more in the second to go up 11-0.
MSU, which stranded two runners in each of the first two innings, got things going in the third inning. Smiley was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning, Hawley singled, and pitcher Natalie Cable hit Sophia Grillo to load the bases. Doloszycki stepped in and delivered an RBI single, and she went to third as her base hit and an outfield error emptied the bases. Cable walked Greer and Beshears reached on an error to once again load the bases, triggering a pitching change. Brynne Nally got the first batter she faced, and then Payton Conroy moved the two runners into scoring position. Bernard came up and doubled through the left side, plating two more runs to make it a six-run inning.
After surrendering six in the top of the third, the UCLA offense went to work to get the runs back. A leadoff double and an error put runners at the corners for Alejandre, who emptied them with a three-run shot over the wall in right. Starr got the next batter to ground out, but the next two batters each launched solo homers, and the Bruins put five on the board to establish a 16-6 lead.
A one-out single by Sophia Grillo started off MSU's fourth inning rally, and Hannah Greer was hit by a pitch. Britain Beshears followed with a double, bringing home a pair of runs. Kirsten Caravaca followed with her second base hit of the night to bring home Beshears for a third run in the frame. In the bottom half, a two-run shot by Jordan Woolery made it 18-9. MSU turned a double play to get the first two outs of the inning, and Alyssa Galindo struck out Ramsey Suarez swinging to end it.
MSU had its lone run in the top of the fifth on a homer by Hawley, her fourth of the season.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Nally, Brynne (2-0)

L: Cassady, Carsyn (3-5)

Michigan State

Batting:

2B: Bernard, Zoie 1 ; Beshears, Britain 1

3B: Bernard, Zoie 1

HR: Hawley, Hannah 1

RBI: Bernard, Zoie 2 ; Hawley, Hannah 1 ; Doloszycki, Sydney 2 ; Beshears, Britain 2 ; Caravaca, Kirsten 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Smiley, Kendall 1 ; Hawley, Hannah 2 ; Grillo, Sophia 1 ; Coffinger, Ava 1 ; Doloszycki, Sydney 1 ; Greer, Hannah 2 ; Beshears, Britain 2

HBP: Smiley, Kendall 1 ; Grillo, Sophia 2 ; Greer, Hannah 1

UCLA

Batting:

2B: Slimp, Rylee 1 ; Woolery, Jordan 1 ; Alejandre, Bri 1

HR: Woolery, Jordan 1 ; Alejandre, Bri 1 ; Garcia, Aleena 1 ; Mujica, Sofia 1

RBI: Slimp, Rylee 4 ; Grant, Megan 1 ; Woolery, Jordan 4 ; Alejandre, Bri 5 ; Garcia, Aleena 2 ; Mujica, Sofia 2

Base Running:

RUNS: Slimp, Rylee 1 ; Grant, Megan 1 ; Pinedo, Rylee 1 ; Woolery, Jordan 3 ; Bragg, Kaniya 2 ; Alejandre, Bri 2 ; Suarez, Ramsey 1 ; Garcia, Aleena 3 ; Mujica, Sofia 3 ; Lamar, Jolyna 1