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University of Houston
36-12
No. 21, 24 Louisiana-Lafayette
32-13
Cuevas Fires No. 21 ULL Past Softball
4/18/2007 12:00:00 AM | Softball
April 18, 2007
LAFAYETTE, La. - Brittany Cuevas fired a two-hit shutout to lift No. 21 Louisiana-Lafayette past the University of Houston softball team 5-0 Wednesday afternoon in game one of a doubleheader at Lamson Park on the ULL campus.
Cuevas allowed only a pair of singles to Angel Shamblin in the third and fifth innings. She struck out eight batters en route to her 23rd victory of the season.
Shamblin was tagged with the loss, dropping to 21-6. She was touched up for a season-best five earned runs on seven hits. It was only the fourth time in Shamblin's last 31 starts dating back to last season that she allowed more than two earned runs. The Florida native tallied four strikeouts against three walks.
The Ragin' Cajuns (36-12) jumped out to a 2-0 advantage in the first inning using a Desi Chatman two-run homer with two outs. Codi Runyan opened the frame with a leadoff walk.
ULL tacked on another run in the third inning as Runyan delivered a two-out RBI-single to make it 3-0.
Lacey Bertucci lined a two-run homer that just cleared the left field fence in the fifth inning for the final margin of 5-0. Holly Tankersley kept the frame alive drawing a two-out walk.
Game two of the doubleheader is on-tap for 6:15pm. Live stats via GameTracker will be available on UHCougars.com.
Cougar Notes
The first game of this afternoon's doubleheader was the fifth all-time meeting between Houston and Louisiana-Lafayette on the softball diamond ... The Ragin' Cajuns have won all five meetings in the series ... ULL has outscored UH, 26-6 ... 10 of Houston's 13 losses this season have come to ranked opponents ... The Cougars fall to 25-7 in day games ... It was only the third time all season that Houston failed to score a run ... The Cougars also drop to 13-3 in games decided by four or more runs this season ... Jessica Valis and Elaina Nordstrom have started in all 107 games of their careers ... Laura Durham also has played in all 107 games of her Houston career since transferring from Texas A&M ... Katie Bush has made 104 consecutive starts in centerfield ... Angel Shamblin recorded her fourth multi-hit game of the season and 19th of her career ...The Florida had recorded a win in her last nine starts ... It also was only the fourth time in her last 31 starts dating back to last season that Shamblin was touched up for more than two earned runs ... With five strikeouts, Shamblin moves to 46 Ks from matching Jenny Johnson for the top spot in program history ... She also is four strikeouts shy of 500 for her career ... It was only the ninth time in 44 games this season that Jessica Valis didn't slap a hit ... It was just the second time in her last 15 games that Elaina Nordstrom didn't register a hit ... It was only the fifth time in her last 33 games that Christa Raley failed to reach base.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Cuevas, Brittany (23-7)
L: Shamblin, Angel (21-6)
Batting:
SH: Grote, Amanda 1
Batting:
HR: Bertucci, Lacey 1 ; Chatman, Desi 1
RBI: Runyan, Codi 1 ; Bertucci, Lacey 2 ; Chatman, Desi 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Runyan, Codi 1 ; Tankersley, Holly 1 ; Bertucci, Lacey 1 ; Chatman, Desi 1 ; Gaspard, Vallie 1
CS: Gaspard, Vallie 1
HBP: Chatman, Desi 1
