Olympic overview: BYU Softball wins WCC title and honors seniors
The BYU softball team won its 12th consecutive West Coast Conference championship with a three-game sweep at Santa Clara over the weekend. The softball and baseball teams both brought in weekly awards to complete this week’s BYU Olympic sports overview.
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The sweep at Santa Clara gave BYU its 22nd win in the last 24 games and the WCC title gives BYU an automatic bid to its 16th-straight NCAA Tournament. Outfielder HannahJo Peterson was named WCC Player of the Week following the wins, her second of the year, and BYU’s 13th WCC weekly player award. Peterson had three home runs last week against Southern Utah and Santa Clara.
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“The greatest equalizer is a new day.”
Head coach Chelsea Spencer likes to remind her team of that, and it’s a theme that has yet to be broken for better or worse through Cal softball’s first three weekends of action.
After falling to Sacramento State in its season opener, Cal rallied for a come-from-behind walk-off win against Saint Mary’s the next day. Likewise, the Bears’ close loss to their South Bay rivals Feb. 26 made its dominant, redemptive victory over the Cardinal Feb. 27 all the sweeter.
Back at Stanford’s Boyd and Jill Smith Family Stadium for the DeMarini Invitational, the blue and gold followed a similar trajectory; following a heartbreaking, extra-inning loss against BYU on Thursday, Cal regrouped to close out the weekend with a pair of wins over UCSB.
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