Syracuse finishes with 5 hits in 2-run loss to No. 13 Clemson
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Syracuse’s leadoff hitters, Calista Almer and Angel Jasso, both struck out in the first inning against Clemson pitcher Valerie Cagle’s opening eight pitches.
Neli Casares-Maher came up to bat, taking a ball on the first pitch. She sized up the second pitch and leveled her sixth home run of the season into the right-center field netting, giving Syracuse a 1-0 lead just 10 pitches into the game.
Then in the third inning, Paris Woods led off and crushed a first-pitch home run 215 feet into the center field netting, tying the game at 2-2.
Photos by Patrick Boling, Clemson Athletics
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – In the program’s 69th game, the Clemson Softball team (38-4, 27-4 ACC) secured its 18th consecutive victory, setting the Clemson record for the longest winning streak by any women’s program in school history, after defeating Syracuse (19-21, 11-18 ACC) by a final score of 4-2 at Skytop Softball Stadium in Syracuse, New York on Friday afternoon.
Offensively, the Tigers were led by Cammy Pereira, who went 3-for-3 at the plate with one RBI and one run scored, and McKenzie Clark, who ripped a two-run homer to give Clemson its first lead of the game in the bottom of the third.
Photos by Patrick Boling, Clemson Athletics
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Marissa Guimbarda’s 12th home run of the season in the top of the fifth inning proved to be the difference in game No. 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader between the Clemson Softball team (39-4, 28-4 ACC) and Syracuse (19-22, 11-19 ACC). The Tigers went on to defeat the Orange by a final score 4-2 at Skytop Softball Stadium and – in the process – recorded their nineteenth consecutive victory, which tied the Clemson record for the sixth-longest winning streak by any team in school history.
Clemson freshman starting lefty Millie Thompson (8-1) earned the win in the circle for the Tigers after holding the Orange to just two runs in 5.0 innings pitched. Thompson tallied five strikeouts and held Sryacuse to just four hits and two walks. Freshman Regan Spencer earned her first career save after entering in relief of Thompson to start the sixth. Thompson faced just one batter above the minimum on one walk. Syracuse’s Linds
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College softball predictions for the rest of the 2021 season, including the Women s College World Series
College softball predictions for the rest of the 2021 season
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There are few people who know more softball than d1softball.com’s Tara Henry. We’re about a month away from selections, so I wanted to talk to her again (see our last conversation here) and get her take on the biggest questions to be answered in the last days of the 2021 regular season.
You can watch the complete interview above. Here are some of what she’s expecting ahead of the selection show, which is set for Sunday, May 16.
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