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SB - Melendez vs. CSUP
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0
St. Edward's SEU 6-5
8
Winner Dixie State DX-SB 6-0
St. Edward's SEU
6-5
0
Final
8
Dixie State DX-SB
6-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 R H E
St. Edward's SEU 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Dixie State DX-SB 3 0 2 0 3 8 9 1

W: Beardshear, Brooklyn (3-0) L: Ashlee Rex (1-2)

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Winner Dixie State DX-SB 7-0
1
UC Colorado Springs UCCS 1-4
Winner
Dixie State DX-SB
7-0
8
Final
1
UC Colorado Springs UCCS
1-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Dixie State DX-SB 2 1 3 0 0 0 2 8 12 3
UC Colorado Springs UCCS 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 2

W: Melendez, Alexandria (3-0) L: Christina Patton (0-2)

Game Recap: Softball | | By DSU Athletics Media Relations

Softball rolls on Easton Classic Day 2

Trailblazers off to best start since 2009

The Dixie State softball team continued its winning ways on Friday at the Easton Classic, cruising to an 8-0 win over St. Edward's and an 8-1 triumph over UC Colorado Springs at the Canyons Softball Complex.

The wins pushed the Trailblazers to 7-0 on the season, marking their best start to a season since 2009, when DSU started the season 8-0.

Dixie State pounded out 21 hits on the day, including three home runs, and allowed just one run in 12 innings.

Shelby Yung (Upland, Calif./Upland HS) led DSU offensively, hitting .714 (5-of-7) on the day with a home run and 3 RBI. Jessica Gonzalez (Kingsburg, Calif./Kingsburg HS) continued her early season tear, batting .500 (2-for-4) with a home run, a triple, three walks, and 3 RBI.

Defensively, Brooklyn Beardshear (Tucson, Ariz./Sahuaro HS) tossed a complete-game two-hit shutout in the 8-0 win over St. Edward's, striking out two as the Trailblazers ended the game in five innings. Alexandria Melendez (Moreno Valley, Calif./Valley View HS) picked up where Beardshear left off in game two, allowing just one run on three hits while picking up her first career complete-game win. Josey Hartman (Mapleton, Utah/Maple Mountain HS) played a solid game in the infield, recording eight assists and three putouts at shortstop.

GAME ONE – Dixie State 8, St. Edward's 0 (5 innings)

The Trailblazers made the most of their first meeting with the Hilltoppers, getting on the scoreboard early in their first game of the day as Gonzalez turned a Hartman hit-by-pitch and a Mallory Paulson (Fruita, Colo./Fruita Monument HS) infield single into a 3-0 lead with one swing of the bat. Gonzalez blasted a line drive to left field that bounced off the top of the fence and dropped over to give DSU a lead it would not relinquish.

Dixie State added two more runs in the third inning, when Arista Honey (Bothell, Wash./Bothell HS) drove an RBI single to right field, and Yung picked up her own RBI single two batters later.

DSU put the finishing touches on the victory in the fifth, scoring three runs on two hits, including the winning run on a wild pitch with the bases loaded.

GAME TWO – Dixie State 8, UC Colorado Springs 1

Dixie State picked up where it left off in the second game, scoring two runs on two hits and one UCCS error in the top of the first. Yung picked up her second RBI of the day with a single down the left field line, then later scored after a throwing error allowed Bailey Gaffin (Glendale, Ariz./Mountain Ridge HS) to reach first.

Dani Bartholf (Gilbert, Ariz./Gilbert HS) added to the 2-0 lead the next inning, blasting the 1-1 pitch over the wall in left center for a leadoff home run, her second home run of the season. Then, in a carbon copy of the second inning, Yung hit a leadoff home run in the third inning, her first of the year. DSU added two more runs in the inning on a 2 RBI single by Gaffin.

The Trailblazers closed out the victory in the seventh inning, as Yung stole home as part of a double-steal play, and Riley Tyteca (Farmington, Utah/Viewmont HS) drove an RBI triple down the right field line.

UCCS broke the shutout with a home run in the bottom half of the seventh, but DSU retired the next two batters to clinch the victory.

Dixie State wraps up the Easton Classic on Saturday, taking on Concordia-Portland at 12:30 p.m., and Western New Mexico at 3 p.m.
 
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