COLLEGE ROUNDUP : CSUN Sweeps Santa Clara in Softball

One day after the Cal State Northridge softball team dropped from ninth to 10th in the rankings, the Matadors racked up 29 hits and scored 27 runs in only eight innings to sweep visiting Santa Clara, 10-0 and 17-0, Wednesday in a nonconference doubleheader.

Each game was called in the fifth inning because of the 10-run rule.

Cami Allen (8-7), a senior right-hander, was perfect in the second game, retiring all 15 batters she faced. It is the first perfect game by a Northridge pitcher since Debbie Dickmann threw one April 1, 1989. Allen struck out five.

The Matadors (41-21-1) hit seven doubles in the second game to match a school record (against L.A. Baptist, now The Master’s, March 4, 1982).

Junior Missy Cress was the only Matador with three hits in a game, and she did that in both ends of the doubleheader.

Freshman right-hander Kathy Blake (23-5) threw a one-hitter through four innings in the first game before being relieved by Jackie Volkert in the fifth.

In another softball game:

Moorpark 6, Pierce 2 (eight innings)--Moorpark (27-10, 8-0) scored four runs in the eighth inning to break a 2-2 tie en route to clinching its sixth consecutive Western State Conference title.

Heather Santiago (18-6), who gave up eight hits and struck out three, hit a two-run double in the eighth for Moorpark.

BASEBALL

Moorpark 11, East L.A. 4--Chris Chandler went three for five with a home run to lead the visiting Raiders (18-14) to a nonconference win.