LBSU Softball: Foul Out In Westwood
From LBPOSTSports.com: Sporadic-flying softballs were all over the north-end of UCLA campus on Friday afternoon. Unfortunately for Long Beach State, all the big flies were on the wrong side of the foul pole. ‘Niner hitters appeared locked-on to UCLA junior ace Megan Langenfeld, but only managed to get hits in two different innings of yesterdays 4-2 loss to the Bruins.
Brooke Turner was in the circle for the Beach and gave up three earned runs on six hits and walked one. But the story of the afternoon was the never-tiring arm of Langenfeld who threw 158 pitches in the complete game effort, 125 of those pitches were strikes and a good portion of those strikes were foul balls off ‘Niner bats.
Juniors Ashley Weber and Ashley Levine had the most success against Langenfeld. Levine was 2-for-3 and Weber was 2-for4 with an RBI.
With the win, the Bruins avenged a 2-1 regular-season loss to Turner and the 49ers by dropping the Beach into the losers bracket of the two-loss Regional tournament. And now it’s a role-reversal for the Beach who will have revenge on their mind when they face UNLV in a win-or-go-home scenario today at 3:30 pm at Easton Stadium. UNLV beat the 49ers 4-2 in the National Invitational Softball Tournament in San Jose.
“We did a great job offensively and Brooke came out and pitched well enough to win this ball game,” 49ers head coach Kim Sowder said in the postgame press conference. “Little things here and there made the difference in the ball game. But I’m proud of our team. We just got to come back tomorrow ready to go.”
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