STOCKTON, Calif. – Three Pacific homeruns and a strong relief effort from senior
Hannah Glad were ultimately not enough to push the team past Idaho State in the series finale Sunday morning – dropping the 10-9 decision in 11 innings at Bill Simoni Field.
The 11-inning bout is the longest game Pacific (9-16) has played in since Mar. 6, 2021 at UC Davis where the team played a 13-inning game.
Playing a familiar role, junior
Olivia Silvestre was a force at the plate with a homerun, two singles and a walk in her five official plate appearances. Just 25 games into the season and Silvestre is already three homers shy of cracking Pacific's top-ten single season homers list. The junior also rose her batting average over the weekend to .482, a mark which would easily clear the current single season record (.449) if she continues her pace.
Senior
Delaney Scully also knocked her first homer of the season out of the park today, going back-to-back with Silvestre in the second inning. Scully also finished the game with two-RBIs to bring her season total to a team leading 18.
Pacific's other homer of the morning was courtesy of junior
Allie Capello, who sent her second bomb of the season over the left field wall.
The Tiger pitching effort was effective at drawing the swing and miss. The combination of starting freshman
Alexa Lewis and senior relievers
Desiree Smith and
Hannah Glad generated a season-high ten strikeouts between the three of them. In addition to being a season-best for the Tigers, it's the team's best strikeout performance in the circle since whiffing ten Dartmouth batters in 2023.
Glad garnered the most strikeouts of the three, amassing four over her 5.1 innings of work. Despite and impressive final line of 5.1 innings pitched, three hits, three runs (none earned), no walks and four strikeouts, she ended as the Tigers' pitcher of record and dropped to 0-3 on the season.
Her appearance today is the longest the senior has worked in a game since 2023 when she went 5.2 innings against Saint Mary's.
The Tigers wrap up their five-game homestand with a doubleheader against Boise State on Tuesday beginning at 10 a.m. Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.
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