Box Score
Other Scores from May 18
NCAA Region 2 Softball
Tucson, Arizona - Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium
Thursday, May 18, 2000
Game 1 (7:30 p.m.)
TUCSON--No. 2-ranked Arizona lived up to its billing
with a 8-0 victory
over sixth-seeded Middle Tennessee State in first-round NCAA
Region 2
softball action at its own Hillenbrand Stadium Thursday.
UA pitcher Becky Lemke(28-5) pitched a no-hitter, struck
out 11, and the
Cats made the most of 10 hits and a couple of miscues by the
Lady Raiders
(39-20).
Arizona (54-7) opened the scoring in the bottom of the
first. Lauren Bauer
led off with a single, moved to second on a balk by MTSU pitcher
Jennifer
Martinez. Nicole Giordano reached on an error, then UA pulled a
double
steal. Toni Mascarenas' sacrifice fly drove in Bauer.
The Cats added four more in the second on an RBI single
by Chrissy Gil, a
fielding error, consecutive doubles by Bauer and Giordano and a
triple by
Mascarenas.
Katie Swan's double in the bottom of the sixth drove in
two runs to end
the game on the mercy rule.
UA, the region's top seed, meets the fourth seed,
Massachussetts, at 5
p.m. Friday in second-round action. The Minutewomen, 35-22,
dropped a 10-0
decision to South Carolina in the opening game of the regional.
MTSU will
meet Illinois State in an elimination game at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
