TWIN FALLS - The 10th-ranked College of Southern Idaho Softball team needed a walk-off hit to win game one 11-10 in 10 innings against #5 Salt Lake but rolled to a 5-0 win in game two.
With the score tied and runners on second and third and one out, the Bruins made the decision to pitch around Golden Eagle catcher
Abby Toller to load the bases.
Savannah Kirkpatrick made them pay, driving a ball to right field for the walk-off rbi and the win.Â
Kirkpatrick wasn't the only CSI player with standout moments during the game.
Down 7-2 early, the Golden Eagles battled back to tie the game in the sixth at 8-8 when Kirkpatrick again had a huge two rbi double with two outs.
After neither team scored in the seventh, Salt Lake took the 9-8 lead in the top of the eighth. But Toller hit a bomb over left field to tie it up.
Both teams went scoreless in the ninth before the Bruins again took the lead at 10-9, setting up the game-winning rbi by Kirkpatrick.
CheyAnne Dahl came into the game in the fourth inning down 7-2 and kept the Eagles in the game. She earned the win, pitching 6.1 innings and giving up just one earned run with five strikeouts.
Kirkpatrick ended the game 4-for-6 with four RBI.
Game two had a completely different feel.
Samantha Riesen dominated in the circle for the Eagles. The freshman gave up just four hits with three strikeouts in the shutout.
CSI put its first run on the board in the bottom of the third when
Skylar Cook tripled to left field and Toller laced an rbi single to right.
But it was the bottom of the fifth inning where the Golden Eagles did most of their damage.
Madi Ford took first on a hit by pitch before Cook's bunt single gave CSI two on with no outs. A fielder's choice resulted in Ford getting out at third before Kirkpatrick lined a pitch over the left-field fence to give CSI the 4-0 lead.
Kirkpatrick ended game two 2-1 with three RBI. Cook was 2-for-3.