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Las Vegas, Nev.. ---- With a pair of run-rule wins Friday at the UNLV 2000 Classic, the No. 13 Nebraska softball team got back on track Friday after a disappointing season-opening tournament. The 9-1 win over Cal Poly and 9-0 win over Santa Barbara vaulted the Huskers to 3-5 on the year and 2-0 in the UNLV Classic.
The Huskers started off its second tournament of the year with a big first inning against Cal Poly, scoring five runs on three hits and two errors. Jennifer Lizama led off with a single and stole second. Two outs later, Amber Burgess stroked a single to left field bringing home Lizama. A Jenifer Williams double to deep center brought around Burgess from first to make it 2-0 Huskers. Williams scored a play later when freshman Kim Ogee hit a grounder that Cal Poly's shortstop mishandled. Sophomore Jill Baker was then hit by a pitch and scored along with Ogee a play later when Alice Brewer's hit went under the glove of Cal Poly's second baseman. Cal Poly got on the board in the second inning when Holly Ballard, who reached second on a single and a wild pitch, was brought around on a single by Natalie Carrillo. That would be all of the offense Cal Poly could muster as starter Jenny Voss no-hit them from there. The Huskers, however, weren't done offensively. Burgess again singled in Lizama in the bottom of the fourth. In the fifth, Ogee and Baker reached on errors by Cal Poly's second baseman and later scored on a single to left by Lizama. The final run of the game came when Williams, who reached base on a triple to left center, scored on a sharp Kim Ogee hit that rolled under the legs of Cal Poly's first baseman.
The run-rule was the first for the Huskers since March 13, 1999. Voss picked up her first win of the year after surrendering just three hits and one run while striking out a season-high seven. Burgess and Lizama led all hitters from the plate with 3-for-4 performances. Jamie Fuente and Williams each added a pair of hits in the Huskers' season-high 12-hit barrage.
Nebraska started off the second game of the day with two runs in the top of the first. Lizama led off the game with a double and scored on the next play with a bobbled Leigh Suhr hit. A few plays later another misplay, this time of a Williams hit, scored Fuente. Nebraska put the game out of reach in the second with five runs off of three hits and two errors. Heather Martin scored on an RBI single by Lizama and Alice Brewer and Lizama scored on Suhr's RBI single. But the big hit of the inning came by Husker freshman Kim Ogee who slugged a two-run triple to right center to make it a 7-0 game.
The Gauchos failed to get a runner past first until the fourth inning. The Huskers added two more runs in the fourth on another two-run triple by Ogee to right center. Ogee's two triples equaled Nebraska's individual season-high of a year ago. Starting pitcher Penny Cope then sat down UCSB 1-2-3 in the bottom of the fifth giving Nebraska the run-rule win. Cope earned her first win as a Husker with her two-hit shutout of the Gauchos. Ogee finished with four runs batted in and Lizama went 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Lizama finished the day with a 5-for-8 effort with four runs scored and three runs batted in.
The 13th-ranked Huskers will play No. 11 Oregon State and UNLV on Saturday at 2:30and 5 p.m.