April 7, 2015
RENO, Nev. -
SDSU 9, NEVADA 6 | 
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The San Diego State softball team homered three times and overcame an almost two-hour snow delay in a 9-6 victory over Nevada Tuesday afternoon in Reno, Nev. The second game of the planned doubleheader was postponed until Wednesday.
Senior Lorena Bauer (San Diego/Steele Canyon HS), junior Kayla Bufardeci (Castro Valley, Calif.) and sophomore Sydnee Cable (Huntington Beach, Calif.) each had two-run homers for the Aztecs (25-14, 8-2 MW), while the Wolf Pack (12-24, 2-5 MW) homered twice as well. The two teams combined for 26 hits and 17 runners left on base.
SDSU took advantage of a Nevada miscue in the first at-bat of the game as senior Kayla Jordan (San Diego/Bonita Vista HS) reached on an error and Cable followed with a line drive home run over the left field wall. It was Cable's fourth homer of the year.
Both San Diego State and the Wolf Pack threatened in the second inning by loading the bases. However, Nevada starting pitcher McKenna Isenberg and Aztec sophomore starter Erica Romero (Corona, Calif.) each got their respective team out of the jam and left all three runners on base.
After the snow delay, which officially lasted 1 hour, 55 minutes, the Wolf Pack put together a rally to get its first runs of the game. Karley Hopkins and Aaliyah Gibson led off with back-to-back singles and, after Romero struck out Jasmine Jenkins swinging on three pitches, Megan Sweet followed with a three-run home run over the center field wall.
SDSU answered with three runs of its own in the fourth. Ruiz got things going with a single down the left field line, moved to second on a fielding error by the Nevada left fielder and to third on a sacrifice bunt by junior Samantha Camello (Temecula, Calif.). Jordan then laced a ball down the left field line, which was caught and allowed Ruiz to score easily from third. Following a single by Cable, senior Bauer ripped a two-run homer over the left-center field wall to give San Diego State a 5-3 lead. It was Bauer's team-leading 11th of the season and 52nd of her career, extending her career school record.
The Aztecs kept up their offensive onslaught in the fifth as sophomore Jaylene Ignacio (Oceanside, Calif.) and senior Hayley Miles (Antelope, Calif.) both reached on back-to-back infield singles, and moved up a base on an illegal pitch. Each runner would score - Ignacio on a single up the middle by Ruiz and Miles on a groundout by Camello - to put SDSU up, 7-3, after five innings.
San Diego State made it seven straight runs when Bufardeci drilled a two-run homer in the sixth. It was her third of the year.
The Wolf Pack, rallied in the seventh, first with a solo homer by Jenkins, and later with an RBI singles by Jennifer Purcell and Ashley Butera. Romero, however, got pinch hitter Nikki Orozco to ground into a fielder's choice with two outs and runners on first and second to seal the win for the Aztecs.
Cable and Ruiz led the SDSU offense with three hits apiece. Cable added two runs and two RBIs, while Ruiz drove in one with a run scored.
Bauer homered, doubled, walked and finished with two RBIs and a run for San Diego State, which had nine of its players reach safely via hit, walk or hit by pitch.
Romero got the win for the Aztecs, her 23rd of the year (23-11), allowing six runs on 14 hits and a walk over seven innings. She struck out five and has now been the pitcher of record in each of SDSU's last 19 decisions (13-6).
San Diego State and Nevada will wrap up the midweek series with a doubleheader on Wednesday, beginning at 1 p.m. PT.
San Diego State 9, Nevada 6
San Diego State 200 322 0 -- 9 12 1
Nevada 003 000 3 -- 6 14 2
Romero and Peres; Isenberg, Redington (3), Isenberg (5) and Butera
W - Romero, 23-11; L - Redington, 4-9
HR: San Diego State, Cable (4), Bauer (11), Bufardeci (3); Nevada, Sweet (5), Jenkins (3)