The Bakersfield College softball team put in a lot work over spring break. The ‘Gades continued their season play and went 4-1 during that time.

In the BC Classic Tournament #2 on March 19-20, the ‘Gades won one game, lost one and had another rained out.

The Gades pulled out a 4-3 victory over College of the Sequoias in game one.

In the other game, Fullerton scored all of its runs in the fourth inning for a 5-4 victory.

The ‘Gades, trailing 5-1, made it close and almost came all the way back by scoring three runs in the sixth inning.

Down by a run in the final inning, BC couldn’t get on the board and ended up taking the tough loss.

The ‘Gades then played a Western Conference Blue Division game against Glendale on March 22 at Bakersfield College.

This time, BC had no problem scoring runs, beating Glendale 21-1 in a five-inning game.

“Everybody hit well in that game,” said Renegade softball coach Sandi Taylor.

“They (Glendale) made lots of mistakes. They had seven errors, and we just capitalized.”

A doubleheader against WSC foe LA Valley in Van Nuys also ended in favor of BC. In game one, the ‘Gades scored runs in the second and fourth innings to pull out a 3-1 victory.

Game two was a bit different as the first three innings went by without either team scoring.

Then BC turned it on in the fourth inning by scoring five runs en route to an 8-2 victory.

That gave BC three conference victories over the break.

As of March 28, BC softball is 18-8 overall and 10-3 in WSC play.

The ‘Gades played host to Citrus on Tuesday and have already recorded a victory over them earlier this season, 5-1.

BC travels to Santa Monica for a doubleheader on March 31, and then hosts WSC Blue Division rival College of the Canyons on April 5.

BC still considers Canyons the team to beat.

Canyons is in first place and BC is in second in the Blue Division.

“We can still get in the playoffs as an at-large (team) even if we don’t go in second,” said Taylor.

“We have to just play well and see who beats who over these next two weeks.”

The ‘Gades have two losses this season alone to Canyons, which came in a doubleheader earlier this month. Canyons did not let the Gades score a single run in either of those games.

The losses came away, in the Canyons home of Santa Clarita.