April 26, 2015
SAN DIEGO -
SDSU 10, UNM 2 (6 inn.) | VIDEO REPLAY
San Diego State run-ruled New Mexico, 10-2, in six innings to capture the weekend series Sunday afternoon at SDSU Softball Stadium. The Aztecs improved to 32-18 overall and 15-6 in Mountain West play, while the Lobos dropped to 25-23 and 9-9.
SDSU homered three times in the game, including a two-run home run by senior Kayla Jordan (San Diego/Bonita Vista HS), and solo blasts by classmate Lorena Bauer (San Diego/Steele Canyon HS) and freshman Jenavee Peres (Garden Grove, Calif.), and outhit UNM, 11-6.
San Diego State broke a scoreless tie with three runs in the bottom of the third inning when junior Samantha Camello (Temecula, Calif.) led off with a bunt single and Jordan followed with a two-run homer off the netting in front of the scoreboard in right-center field. It was her eighth of the season. Two batters later, Peres took a 1-0 pitch over the left-center field fence for her seventh of the year.
New Mexico got one back in the fourth as Karissa Haleman singled home Shelbie Franc.
The Aztecs answered with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the fourth. Junior Kayla Bufardeci (Castro Valley, Calif.) led off with a single down the left field line and was replaced by senior Jacki Campa (La Verne, Calif.). Freshman Taylor Stewart (Bellflower, Calif.) then doubled to left field to put two runners in scoring position. Senior Hayley Miles (Antelope, Calif.) followed with a well-placed suicide squeeze to score Campa. Miles then purposely got in a rundown in between first and second base, which allowed Stewart to score from third and put SDSU up, 5-1, after four innings.
Each team traded runs in the fifth with the Lobos scoring on an RBI groundout by Brandi Heimburg and San Diego State answering on a solo home run by Bauer well over the left field bleachers. It was Bauer's 16th of the season and 57th of her career.
The Aztecs ended the game in the sixth, scoring four times on four hits and three walks. Junior Leia Ruiz (Chino, Calif.) drew a bases loaded walk (her second straight game with a bases loaded walk) to plate Bufardeci with the first run of the inning, and SDSU followed with consecutive RBI singles by Bauer (to score Miles), Peres (scoring Camello) and sophomore Sydnee Cable (Huntington Beach, Calif.) (to score Ruiz) to clinch its third run-rule game of the season.
Peres led the San Diego State offense with three hits, including the home run, two RBIs, a run and a stolen base. Bauer (home run, two RBIs, run) and Camello (two runs) added two hits apiece, while Cable reached base safely twice with an RBI single and a walk.
Sophomore Erica Romero (Corona, Calif.) earned the win for the Aztecs by allowing two runs on six hits over six innings, while striking out two. The right-hander now has SDSU's last 30 pitching decisions and is 30-15 on the season, one win away from tying Danielle O'Toole's single-season record of 31, set last year.
San Diego State hits the road for a weekend series at Utah State, beginning Friday at 3 p.m. MT.
San Diego State 10, New Mexico 2 (6 innings)
New Mexico (25-23, 9-9 MW) 000 110 -- 2 6 1
San Diego State (32-18, 15-6 MW) 003 214 -- 10 11 0
Fortner, Sheehan (3) and Johnson; Romero and Peres, Orlando (5)
W - Romero, 30-15; L - Fortner, 8-5
HR: San Diego State, Jordan (8), Bauer (16), Peres (7)