GAME ONE
Score: UC Davis 3, Cal Poly 2 (11 inn.)
Winning Pitcher: Ashley Sawai (12-4)
Losing Pitcher: Bree Brennan (6-10)
Location: San Luis Obispo, Calif. (Bob Janssen Field)
Records: UC Davis 27-22 (16-9), Cal Poly 10-34 (4-21)
GAME TWO
Score: UC Davis 4, Cal Poly 12 (5 inn.)
Winning Pitcher: Kaylee Davis (4-15)
Losing Pitcher: Maia Scholtens (2-2)
Location: San Luis Obispo, Calif. (Bob Janssen Field)
Records: UC Davis 27-23 (16-10), Cal Poly 11-34 (5-21)
The short story: UC Davis softball split its opening final regular season doubleheader, outlasting Cal Poly in 11 innings to open the day, behind 11 lights out innings from
Ashley Sawai giving the Aggie a win on the day despite losing the second game of the doubleheader.
LEADING OFF
- Sawai went all 11 frames in the first game, striking out four while allowing just one earned run and zero walks
- Gia Felice led off the day with four hits, including a pair of go-ahead hits in the first game of the day, with the second being an eventual game winner
- Keira Brady added a pair of hits and the lone double on the day for the Aggies
HOW IT HAPPENED (GAME ONE)
- Brady got the Aggies on the board in the second with an RBI double down the left line that scored a hustling Rylee Reeves from second
- But in the fifth Cal Poly tied things to make it 1-1, a score that would be carried into the ninth
- In the ninth the Aggie took the lead when Felice singled up the middle scoring Vanessa Calvillo from second to put the Aggies up 2-1
- Cal Poly responded in the bottom half of the ninth to tie things, but Sawai kept the winning run from crossing to give the Aggies another shot at retaking the lead
- It took until the 11th, but Felice once again came up clutch when she smashed a single to center field that brought home Kaylin Phillips making it 3-2 Aggies
- And after Sawai sat down the Mustangs in order wrapping up the bottom half of the 11th, the Aggies had secured another 10-plus inning victory with a 3-2 win in game one
HOW IT HAPPENED (GAME TWO)
- In the second game, Cal Poly took an early 5-0 lead when they scored those runs in the second
- Cal Poly added to its lead to make it 7-0 in the third on a two-run home run
- But the Aggies battled back in the fourth, scoring four runs on RBI base hits by Claire Shelton, Naomi Kalanetra and Phillips
- But in the bottom of the fourth and fifth innings Cal Poly continued to score and would eventual end things in the fifth frame with the score hitting 12-4 for a final in the second game
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ABOUT UC DAVIS ATHLETICS: UC Davis, ranked No. 2 among public universities by the Wall Street Journal in the value of a college degree, is home to 40,000 undergraduate students and 12,000 employees. Ranked top in the United States in agriculture and forestry as well as No. 1 in veterinary medicine, UC Davis is located in a true California college town nestled between world-class destinations such as the San Francisco Bay Area, Napa Valley and Lake Tahoe. Over 650 Aggie student-athletes compete in 25 Division I varsity sports, with 16 sports transitioning to the Mountain West Conference beginning in 2026–27.
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