Northridge, Calif. - In its opening game of the Cal State Northridge Invitational, the Pacific Softball team notched a 4-2 victory over the Harvard Crimson, thanks to a complete game, four-hit effort by Dani Bonnet and a pair of two-run home runs by Freshman Bailey O'Mara. The Tigers improve to 10-15 on the year following the victory while the Crimson fall to 9-10 on the year after dropping a second straight contest.

The Tigers wasted no time getting to work on offense against Harvard starter Laura Ricciardone. After Ricciardone got Goyette to ground out to begin the inning, sophomore Melanie Habib singled up the middle. The next hitter, O'Mara, delivered a long home run over the right field fence, her first career home run and a 2-0 Tigers lead.

Bonnet would start strong as well, retiring the Crimson in order, including a strikeout of Shelby Olson in the bottom of the first. Bonnet and Ricciardone swapped scoreless frames in the second and third innings. Bonnet struck out Jillian Leslie and Catherine Callaway in the second and Katie Lantz in the third.

In the top of the fourth, O'Mara led off the inning with a single up the middle, but the Tigers were retired without getting a run across. In the bottom of the inning, Harvard mounted a rally of their own. With two out, Kasey Lange was hit by an errant Bonnet pitch. The next Harvard hitter, Adrienne Hume, walked to set up a first and second situation for the Crimson. Leslie followed with a single through the right side. scoring Lange to cut the Pacific lead to 2-1. While the next Crimson hitter, Callaway was up, Leslie stole second. Junior Alex Steinmehl's throw to second base was off line and trickled into the outfield, allowing Hume to score an unearned run and tie the contest at 2-2.

Ricciardone delivered a shutdown inning in the top of the fifth, despite one-out singles from sophomores Nicole Zapotoczny and Taylor Brink. Bonnet worked around a one-out single by Katherine Appelbe, retiring Harvard in the bottom half of the frame.

In the sixth inning, Habib led off with a single up the middle, paving the way for O'Mara. The freshman first baseman rocketed a home run over the left field wall, her second of the game, for a 4-2 advantage that would hold as the final score.

O'Mara would finish with all four Tiger RBIs in the game, becoming the first Tiger with a two-homer game since senior Taylor Petty had two against Florida Gulf Coast on March 9, 2013. O'Mara joins a list of just nine other Tigers to record multi-home run games since at least 1993.

Bonnet (6-5) pitched masterfully for a second straight outing, surrendering just one earned run and recording four strikeouts, often mystifying the Crimson hitters with her mix of pitches.

Ricciardone (4-5) mainly matched Bonnet, recording three strikeouts, but fell victim to well placed hits by the Tigers and O'Mara's powerful contribution to the scoreline.

Habib recorded two hits and scored both runs while Zapotoczny delivered a pair of hits for Pacific.

The Tigers will be back in action at the Cal State Northridge Invitational tomorrow at 11:30 am against the same Crimson team. Pacific will also face off with Cal State Northridge at 2:00 pm.

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