?The Bakersfield College softball team has won 3 of the last 8 games, and they are still struggling with youth.

On March 17, the Renegades beat L.A. Valley 14-8 with eighteen hits from eight players.

Jamie Dumatrait had three hits, two runs and four RBIs in six at-bats. Melissa Cope had two hits, one run and two RBIs in five at-bats. Celina Morales had three hits, one run and one RBI in five at-bats. Aly Rosales had two hits, one run and two RBIs in five at-bats. Amanda Flores had two hits, two runs and one RBI in six at-bats. Brittany Hunt had three hits, Amanda Roberts had two hits, and Courtney Hockett had one hit.

Joni Lagerstrom pitched 5 2/3 innings with three strikeouts giving up eleven hits and seven runs. Myranda Sawyer pitched 3 1/3 innings taking the win with three strikeouts while only giving up four hits and one run.

On March 19, the Renegades played a doubleheader against L.A. Mission winning the first game 3-2 and losing the second game 6-3.

In game one, Hanna Grisham pitched all seven innings with one strikeout giving up four hits and two runs.

Grisham said, “Overall, our offense and defense were both good.”

There were three runs off of four hits in the third inning. Rosales and Flores got on base with a walk and a single. Dumatrait got a double and got two RBIs. Cope got a single and got an RBI. BC had eight hits all together.

In game two, Liz Chabolla pitched 5 2/3 innings striking out four batters and giving up twelve hits and six runs. Lagerstrom came into the game and pitched 1 1/3 innings

When asked about her pitching Chabolla said, “My balls just stopped moving, and my screwball was not working, and the next time I pitch, I would like to see more movement and getting the first batter out and maybe a no hitter.”

The game was 6-0 all the way up until the bottom of the seventh when Hockett got a single, Flores came up to bat and got a homerun, Rosales got a triple and Cope got a sacrifice fly and RBI making it 6-3 which was the final score.

Coach Sandi Taylor said, “We could have done better if we had not let the number nine batter get on base, but our kids played very, very well, the best we’ve played all year long, and so my hope is that we can build on it and keep getting better.

On March 21, the Renegades had the BC Classic playing two games and losing 5-3 against COS and 8-2 against Riverside.

In game one, Sawyer pitched the whole game striking out the side in the second inning with six strikeouts all together, giving up ten hits and five runs.

“I threw a lot of down balls and then a couple of my pitches got flat, but I was pretty confident,” Sawyer said.

With one run in the fourth off of a double by Hockett, a sacrifice bunt by Hunt which moved the runner over to third, and a single RBI with a stolen base by Jessica Newton Smith tied the game up 1-1. BC could not get any more runs.

“There were a couple instances where we didn’t anticipate what the play might be and react quick enough, and there was one inning where we made a couple of errors, so I think we need to anticipate the plays a little bit better.” Taylor said,

“Physical errors are going to happen and we don’t want them to happen, but they will happen, so we need to anticipate and react quicker.”

In game two, Grisham pitched the whole game with no strikeouts, giving up seven hits and eight runs. Hockett got two hits and one RBI with Roberts getting one hit, one run and one RBI. Being a factor to the game was Rosales with one hit and one run and Flores with one hit.

On March 24, the Renegades played Canyons and lost 5-2. Sawyer pitched all seven innings with two strikeouts and allowed eight hits and five runs. Cope had two hits and one RBI off of three at-bats.

On March 26, the Renegades played another doubleheader against Glendale and won the first game 8-0 and lost the second game 10-5.

In game one, Chabolla pitched five innings had four strikeouts and gave up five hits.

In game two, Grisham pitched two innings had no strikeouts, allowed three hits and five runs and had one error. Sawyer came in and pitched four innings had two strikeouts giving up eight hits, five runs and had three errors. Flores had two hits, two runs off of four at-bats, and Rosales had two hits, one run, two RBIs off of three at-bats.

Taylor said, “We have 70 errors this season.”

The Renegades are 10-21 and 5-10 WSC.

They will play two games at Dave Frye Field against Cuesta and Mt. SAC on April 4 and then play Citrus on April 7.