Arizona Wildcats Softball: Eight-time National Champions score two Grand slams, 32 runs on 25 hits, including six home runs in two games
The No. 14 Arizona Wildcats earned a six-inning, 10-1 victory over Loyola Marymount before thumping Wright State 22-1 in only five innings of work. The 22 runs in the night are the fourth best total in program history and the highest single game total since 2001. According to the University of Arizona Athletics, it is also the highest run total in the nation this season.
The Wright State game ended the sixth inning due to the mercy rule where the rule is invoked if one team is ahead by at least eight runs after five innings. Chelsea Goodacre tallied three RBIs in the contest, including a sacrifice fly that tied the game at one. Goodacre scored 22 home runs in the 2014 season and ranked fourth in the nation.
Arizona scored a whopping 15 runs in the second inning alone. The Wildcats hit four home runs in this game, including two grand slams which was a school-record! Credit for the two grand slams goes to pitcher Trish Parks and shortstop Kellie Fox who may have made history in the second inning.
GRAND SLAM! Trish Parks to the top row of Candrea's Corner and it's 13-0 Arizona in the second. Wowwww. pic.twitter.com/d2eyPXYsyp
— Arizona Softball (@ArizonaSoftball) February 14, 2015
Parks was named the first Arizona softball Pac-12 freshman of the week a week ago and again this week, and this was awarded to her in just the first three games of her college career and in the three starts over the weekend. Parks did not allow an earned run, posting a perfect 0.00 ERA over 13 innings pitched. Fox is a 2013 transfer student from UCLA where she was the All-Pac-12 player in 2011, her sister Kristie Fox, was an All-American shortstop at the University of Arizona.
Arizona also played Loyola Marymount University (LMU) on Friday before they took on Wright State. They beat Loyola 10-1 in six innings scoring five runs in the fourth inning while LMU scored their only run in the first inning and was shut out for the rest of the game. Arizona pitcher Nancy Bowling recorded the win.
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Arizona won a total of six games over four days starting with a win over Drake University on Thursday February 12th ending with a game against Drake University on Sunday.
The Wildcats opened their season against Oklahoma State Cowgirls the weekend of February 6th; they won all three games. The first game in the series only went 5 innings as Arizona was ahead by more than eight runs (mercy rule) winning 12-2. The second game was a shut out win pitched by Trish Parks, Wildcats won 5-0.
In the third game the Wildcats and Cowgirls were tied 2-2 going into the eighth inning. The Cowgirls came back when former Wildcat Darcy Taylor stepped to the plate and delivered a two-run single into center, giving the Cowgirls their first lead of the game. In the bottom of the eighth, Wildcats pinch hitter Ashleigh Hughes lined a two-run walk-off double off the left field fence beating the Cowgirls 4-3.
Next up:
Arizona, now 9-0 on the season, will travel to Cathedral City on Feb 19th-22nd to take part in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic tournament with 35 teams including five other Pac-12 teams in addition to Arizona. (Utah, Oregon State, UCLA, Cal, and Stanford)