May 5 and 6, the Bakersfield College softball team won its first two games, making it unnecessary to play the third to win its best-of-three Southern Regional playoff series and made it to the second round of the Super Regional finals.
In a close game Saturday, Ashleigh Pryor won the game for the Renegades when she scored the winning single with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning making it a 1-0 win over Fullerton College.
“I hit the winning run in,” said Pryor. “I feel really good about it. It was exciting and it all happened really fast.”
They continued their fight on Sunday against Fullerton.
In the bottom of the sixth inning Amanda Abbott, Felicia Rojas, Heather Spoon, and Rachele Flores gave BC four straight singles that allowed for two runs.
That led to BC second win over Fullerton, 5-1.
Pitcher Kory Marko made BC history with a complete game one hitter.She’s the second person ever to reach 30 victories for the season.
Head Coach Sandi Taylor feels that the success of last weekend’s win is attributed to the fact that they’ve had time to coordinate the team and feels as though the breaks in between games makes them stronger.
“We played this weekend with lots of internal confidence,” said Taylor.
“The ten-day gap we had in between our last game and playoffs gave us time to regroup, reorganize and refocus. We needed that time.”
The Southern Regionals were hosted at Bakersfield College May 5 and 6 and in Taylor’s opinion were historical for BC.
This coming week, the team will assess Cypress City College and focus on practice.
“We’ll focus on their strengths and weaknesses and find out what we can do better,” said Taylor.
“We’ll mainly look at our strengths cause that something we can control.”
The team will play Cypress on their turf May 12 at 2 p.m. and May 13 at noon and 2 p.m. if necessary.