SMCC Softball Splits with Scottsdale CC
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Scottsdale Community College | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
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South Mountain Community College | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | X | 7 | 8 | 3 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Scottsdale Community College | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 13 | 3 |
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South Mountain Community College | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 0 |
PHOENIX ---
The South Mountain Community College softball team (33-18, 25-13 ACCAC) split an ACCAC home doubleheader with Scottsdale CC on April 22, winning 7-0 in game one before falling 11-9 in game two. Sophomore Alyssa Jemio tossed a complete-game shutout and homered, and freshmen Kaeliann Glass and Tazia Blake also went deep in the game-one victory. The Cougars nearly overcame an 11-1 deficit in game two, but their seventh-inning rally fell short.
Game One Recap
Jemio recorded her 10th victory in the circle with a stellar performance over seven innings. She scattered four hits and two walks and fanned a season-high seven batters over seven frames to blank the Fighting Artichokes.
Offensively, Jemio hit a solo home run, her sixth of the year, in the bottom of the third and finished 2 for 2 with two runs and a walk.
Glass got the Cougars on the board with a one-out, solo home run in the first. Sophomore Nadia Rascon and Jemio later scored in the inning on a two-run error.
Blake led off the fourth with her third home run of the year, and sophomore Dionna Leanio added an RBI double in the frame that scored freshman Jerzey Jarvis. Rascon, who finished 2 for 4 with two doubles, a run, and an RBI, concluded the scoring with an RBI double that brought Leanio home.
Game Two Recap
SCC struck for 11 runs over the first three innings, but SMCC fought back with a run in the fourth and two in the fifth to extend the contest.
Trailing 11-5 in the seventh, the Cougars nearly pulled off the comeback. Rascon led off the inning with a double and scored on an RBI single from Jemio. After sophomore Michelle Balcazar singled, Jemio scored on an RBI double from sophomore Jada Montoya.
Blake then roped a double to center that scored Balcazar, but SCC got Montoya out at the plate trying to score from second. Jarvis later recorded a two-out RBI single to score Blake, but the rally and game ended with the next batter.
Balcazar's key two-out RBI single in the fifth helped SMCC avert a run-rule defeat. Montoya added an RBI double earlier in the frame, bringing SMCC to within 11-3.
Blake, Montoya, and Rascon recorded three hits apiece in the loss, and Leanio, Blake, and Balcazar all scored twice.
Freshman Rebekah Mendoza took the loss in the circle, falling to 7-4 on the season. She allowed eight hits, 10 earned runs, and four walks in 2.2 innings. Freshman Kayle James tossed 4.1 innings of relief with five hits, two walks, and a strikeout.