CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. \u2014 BYU softball picked up a 5-4 win against Long Beach State in game one of its doubleheader in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic at Big League Dreams Complex on Friday evening.<\/p>\n
BOX SCORE<\/a><\/p>\n The Cougars (3-9, 0-0 Big 12) used a five-run fifth to take the lead, holding on late after three Beach runs in the sixth and seventh innings.<\/p>\n Player Highlights<\/p>\n Ilove\u2019a Brittingham<\/a>: 1-3, HR, 4 RBI Long Beach State scored the game\u2019s first run in the top of the third inning on a single, BYU error, wild pitch and sacrifice fly on a diving Hailey Shuler<\/a> catch down the right field line.<\/p>\n Lily Owens<\/a> and Lexie Bennett<\/a> both beat out infield singled in the home half of the third with two outs, but the Cougars were unable to capitalize.<\/p>\n BYU broke things open with a five spot in the fifth, doing all of its damage with two outs.<\/p>\n After a Miranda Mansfield<\/a> walk, LBSU pitching change, Owens walk and Bennett\u2019s second infield single of the contest, Hailey Morrow<\/a> reached on a fielder\u2019s choice where Bennett slid into second just in time, plating Mansfield. Ilove\u2019a Brittingham<\/a> blasted a grand slam to right center two pitches later, making it 5-1, Cougars.<\/p>\n The Beach got one back in the sixth on two singles, a stolen base and sacrifice fly to center field for a 5-2 game.<\/p>\n Long Beach State made things interesting in the top of the seventh, stringing together three straight singles to score one and force a BYU pitching change.<\/p>\n After starter Gianna Mares<\/a> made way for Jada Villegas<\/a>, LBSU singled and scored on an obstruction call, cutting the lead to one, but a sacrifice bunt and consecutive groundouts to Morrow at short ended the contest, earning Mares the win and Villegas her first save on the year.<\/p>\n On Deck
\nLexie Bennett<\/a>: 2-3
\nTristen Turlington<\/a>: 1-3, 2B
\nGianna Mares<\/a> (W, 3-1): 6 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, BB, 6 K
\nJada Villegas<\/a> (S, 1): 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R<\/p>\n
The Cougars will complete their Friday doubleheader against Auburn on Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. PT on FloCollege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. \u2014 BYU softball picked up a 5-4 win against Long Beach State in game one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-188135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}