May 14, 2016
SAN DIEGO -
SDSU 6, BOISE STATE 3 | VIDEO REPLAY
Senior Samantha Camello (Temecula, Calif.) went 4-for-4 with a two-run homer to lead San Diego State to a 6-3 victory over Boise State Saturday afternoon at SDSU Softball Stadium on Senior Day. The Aztecs finished their season at 30-22, including a 12-12 mark in Mountain West play.
Camello singled in the first inning, homered in the second, singled in the fifth and singled in the sixth to close out her career. The 4-for-4 game was just five games after she went 6-for-6 at New Mexico en route to setting a school and MW record with six hits. She also scored two runs today.
Junior Jaylene Ignacio (Oceanside, Calif./El Camino HS) added two hits and two RBIs, including a solo home run, while senior Leia Ruiz (Chino, Calif.) tripled, walked and scored two runs in her final game.
Junior Erica Romero (Chino, Calif.) picked up the win after allowing three runs on five hits over six innings, while striking out four. The right-hander finished 2016 with a 15-9 record. Sophomore Alex Formby (Orange, Calif.) tossed a scoreless seventh inning with a strikeout to record her fifth save of the year.
SDSU wasted no time, striking with two runs in the bottom of the first inning. Camello led off with an infield single and stole second base. Ruiz attempted to sacrifice Camello to third, but the Bronco (14-38, 6-18 MW) pitcher Nicole Wilson botched the throw to first, which allowed Camello to score easily. Ruiz later scored on a single up the middle by Ignacio. Junior Frankie Orlando (Roseville, Calif.) followed with a double and departing junior Sam Vlot (Chowchilla, Calif.) walked to load the bases for senior Stefania Aradillas (Mexico City). Aradillas, however, grounded into a fielder's choice to the BSU shortstop to end the inning.
Boise State halved the San Diego State lead in the top of the second with a solo home run by Teauna Hughes.
The Aztecs went back to work in the bottom half of the inning as sophomore Zaria Meshack (Vallejo, Calif.) drew a leadoff walk and Camello followed with a homer to left field. Ruiz then tripled down the right-field line to chase Wilson from the game. Shawna Burke replaced Wilson in the circle and struck out junior Sydnee Cable (Huntington Beach, Calif.) before allowing a sacrifice fly by freshman Molly Sturdivant (Santa Ana, Calif.) to score Ruiz. Ignacio then took a 3-1 pitch over the right-center field wall to put SDSU up, 6-1, after two innings.
Izzy Serrano brought the Broncos closer in the sixth with a two-run home run, but the San Diego State pitchers shut down the BSU offense the rest of the way in the win.
NOTES: The Aztecs recorded their 11th consecutive 30-win season (last season below 30 wins was 2005) ... SDSU won its final four Mountain West series for the first time in league history (the MW started in 2000) ... San Diego State won its ninth straight Senior Day game (last Senior Day loss was in 2007) ... The Aztecs finished in a tie for third with Utah State in league play, but won the series with the Aggies ... SDSU finished its stretch in May with a 5-2 record ... San Diego State won its 21st consecutive game (17-0 this year) when scoring six or more runs ... The Aztecs improved to 20-8 when scoring first this year ... SDSU won its 21st straight game (16-0 this year) when leading after five innings ... San Diego State finished the year 29-10 when leading at any point in the game ... The Aztecs won their fourth consecutive game when outhitting their opponent and are now 15-5 on the year when having more hits ... SS Samantha Camello recorded her team-leading 17th multi-hit game of the season ... Camello has three of SDSU's five games with at least four hits ... Camello finished the season with 65 hits, the ninth most in San Diego State single-season history ... Camello also recorded her fifth multi-run game of the year ... 2B Leia Ruiz scored two runs, putting her at 90 for her career, which ranks 10th in program history ... It was her team-leading seventh multi-run game of the year ... She also added her 29th sacrifice bunt of her career, tied for 10th all-time for the Aztecs ... 3B Molly Sturdivant recorded her fifth sacrifice fly of the season to tie a school record ... Her five sac flies are already tied for sixth in SDSU career history ... RF Jaylene Ignacio had her second straight two-hit and two-RBI game ... She now has nine multi-hit games this year and eight multi-RBI contests (tied for Sturdivant for No. 1 on the team) ... DP Sydnee Cable had her streak of reaching base safely snapped at 15 games ... RHP Alex Formby recorded her fifth save of the year, which is tied for the fourth most in a season in San Diego State history ... Formby's five saves are already tied for sixth in Aztec program history.
San Diego State 6, Boise State 3
Boise State (14-38, 6-18 MW) 010 002 0 -- 3 5 1
San Diego State (30-22, 12-12 MW) 240 000 x -- 6 8 1
Romero, Fomby (7) and Orlando; Wilson, Burke (2) and Lamb
W - Romero, 15-9; L - Wilson, 7-11; SV - Formby, 5
HR: Boise State, Hughes (12), Serrano (2); San Diego State, Camello (2), Ignacio (6)