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Softball team begins bid for NCAA title
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Ted Lee
CalSportsDigest.com		May 26, 2004

The eight Women's College World Series participants played each other a total of 33 games during the regular season - topping the list is none other than California, which went 8-4 against the likes of Stanford, UCLA, Washington and LSU.

Fifth-seeded California will play fourth-seeded Florida State in the first round of the Women's College World Series this Thursday. The game will be televised live on ESPN2 at 6:30 pm (PT).



If California wins, they will play the winner of the Oklahoma - Washington game, Friday at 3 p.m. on ESPN2. As long as the Bears continue to win, they won't have to play more than one game per day - unless rain forces rescheduling.

If California loses, they will play the loser of the Oklahoma-Washington game on Saturday at noon on ESPN2. In the event that the Bears win that game, they'll have to come back at 5 p.m.(ESPN) that afternoon to play another game. A win in that game would mean that Cal would have to win two games on Sunday to advance to Monday's championship game.

Monday's championship game is schedule to be televised by ESPN at 4 p.m.

For updated results from the NCAA Championships website, click here.  

To relive the greatest day in California softball history, click here.

To learn more about the team, go the softball team's postseason media guide.

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During the regular season, the eight participants in the Women's College World Series played 33 games against each other.

  TOTAL Home Away Neutral
California 8-4 3-1 3-2 2-1
LSU 3-2 0-1   3-1
Stanford 5-4 1-4 4-0  
UCLA 6-5 2-2 2-3 2-0
Florida St. 3-3 1-0 0-2 2-1
Oklahoma 2-2   1-0 1-2
Michigan 2-3 2-0 0-1 0-2
Washington 4-10 2-3 1-3 1-4

Below is a list of results showing how each WCWS team against its fellow competitors, along with the regional scores, and season stats of each team's top pitchers and htters.

#5 seed - California (50-11)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
2/4 W 5-1 LSU N 5/7 W 2-1 UCLA H
2/28 L 1-6 LSU N 5/8 W 3-1 Washington H
3/14 W 5-4 Washington N 5/9 W 8-0 Washington H
4/9 L 3-5 Stanford N

NCAA Regionals
4/10 W 1-0 Stanford A 5/20 W 3-1 Maine N
4/10 W 6-0 Stanford A 5/21 W 2-1 Miss. St. N
4/23 W 6-1 Washington A 5/22 W 2-0 Nebraska A
4/24 L 1-5 UCLA A 5/23 W 2-0 Nebraska A
Pitching ERA W-L G GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Kristina Thorson 0.77 27-3 41 31 20 11 210.1 107 26 212 .149
Kelly Anderson 1.43 23-8 38 30 17 6 191.0 158 61 142 .226
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Vicky Galindo 205 51 76 17 2 6 19 .375 .427 .561 23/32
Kaleo Eldredge 157 47 55 9 0 7 30 .350 .460 .541 16/17
Haley Woods 183 26 56 8 1 16 57 .306 .379 .623 1/2

#1 seed - Oklahoma (44-20-1)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
2/7 W 6-4 LSU A 5/20 W 5-0 Tampa N
2/18 L 2-3 Florida St. N 5/21 W 8-0 Northwestern N
2/29 W 4-0 Michigan N 5/22 W 3-2 Arizona A
3/20 L 0-1 Washington N 5/23 L 4-12 La.-Lafayette N

NCAA Regionals

 5/24 W 15-0 La.-Lafayette N
Pitching ERA W-L G GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Kami Keiter 1.11 17-12 35 30 23 5 207.1 159 59 146 NA
Nicole Denes 1.82 16-6 27 22 12 5 142.1 113 48 128 NA
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Heather Scaglione 173 39 69 10 0 16 46 .399 .514 .734 6/7
Norrelle Dickson 198 35 71 2 0 1 19 .359 .430 .384 25/29
Kristyn Vesely 187 28 55 10 3 0 15 .294 .362 .379 15/19

#2 seed - UCLA (43-9)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
2/7 W 5-3 Washington N 5/7 L 1-2 California A
2/15 W 3-0 Michigan N 5/8 W 6-2 Stanford A
4/9 L 1-3 Washington A 5/9 W 7-1 Stanford A
4/10 L 5-6 Washington A

NCAA Regionals
4/23 L 0-1 Stanford H 5/20 W 8-0 MVSU H
4/24 W 5-1 California H 5/21 W 2-0 Louisville H
4/25 W 3-1 California H 5/22 W 5-2 Alabama H
5/5 L 0-1 Washington H 5/23 W 7-0 Alabama H
Pitching ERA W-L G GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Lisa Dodd 0.79 15-2 18 18 16 10 115.2 60 20 76 .151
Kelly Goerl 1.05 27-7 36 33 33 13 234.0 127 53 254 .155
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Caitlin Benyi 162 48 64 14 0 22 39 .395 .500 .889 2/2
Stephanie Ramos 166 35 60 8 0 12 29 .361 .431 .627 2/5
Jodie Legaspi 155 19 56 7 1 7 33 .361 .411 .555 0/0

#3 seed - Louisiana State (54-10)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
2/7 L 4-6 Oklahoma H

NCAA Regionals
2/14 L 1-5 California N 5/20 W 4-0 Tex.A&M-CC N
2/28 W 6-1 California N 5/21 W 3-0 Seton Hall N
2/28 W 4-2 Washington N 5/22 W 7-3 Baylor A
2/29 W 4-3 Florida St.   5/23 W 4-1 Illinois N
Pitching ERA W-L IP GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Kristin Schmidt 1.21 35-5 45 40 37 14 277 209 36 318 .206
Emily Turner 1.67 18-5 27 23 18 9 151 139 30 107 .239
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Lauren Castle 199 45 75 8 1 4 38 .377 .427 .487 3/4
Leslie Klein 213 52 77 19 5 13 57 .362 .400 .681 12/14
Stephanie Hill 190 36 65 5 0 13 54 .342 .408 .574 3/4

#4 seed - Florida St. (61-10)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
2/28 W 7-1 Washington N

NCAA Regionals
2/28 W 3-2 Oklahoma N 5/20 W 4-0 LIU H
2/29 L 3-4 LSU N 5/21 W 1-0 CSUN H
3/14 W 1-0 Michigan H 5/22 W 5-4 Oregon H
5/8 L 1-2 Michigan A 5/23 L 0-1 Oregon H
5/8 L 0-1 Michigan A 5/23 W 2-0 Oregon H
Pitching ERA W-L G GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Jess van der Lind 0.52 28-7 39 33 29 19 230.1 92 47 366 .120
Casey Hunter 0.88 33-3 40 37 31 14 240.2 112 53 275 .134
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Jess van der Lind 190 47 74 9 4 3 53 .389 .504 .526 9/10
Veronica Wootson 239 69 82 8 7 7 33 .343 .385 .523 17/23
Natasha Jacob 197 41 66 4 6 2 24 .335 .410 .447 18/22

#6 seed - Michigan (54-11)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
2/15 L 0-3 UCLA N

NCAA Regionals
2/29 L 0-4 Oklahoma N 5/20 W 6-3 Canisius H
3/14 L 0-1 Florida St. A 5/22 W 1-0 Notre Dame H
5/8 W 2-1 Florida St. H 5/22 W 3-2 Oregon St. H
5/8 W 1-0 Florida St. H 5/23 L 0-1 Oregon St. H

 

 5/24 W 5-2 Oregon St. H
Pitching ERA W-L G GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Nicole Motycha 0.77 22-4 33 26 17 9 173 119 22 160 .188
Jennie Ritter 1.09 24-7 39 30 20 8 204 113 44 265 .158
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Tiffany Haas 203 49 71 9 0 5 31 .350 .427. .468 1/1
Jessica Merchant 158 30 54 12 2 15 48 .342 .427 .728 18/19
Meghan Doe 203 30 64 4 2 0 18 .315 .340 .355 21/25

#7 seed - Stanford (43-16)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
4/9 W 5-3 California A 5/9 L 1-7 UCLA H
4/10 L 0-1 California H

NCAA Regionals
4/10 L 0-6 California H 5/20 W 1-0 Utah H
4/23 W 1-0 UCLA A 5/21 W 7-2 Pacific H
4/24 W 12-9 Washington A 5/22 W 7-1 Hofstra H
4/25 W 3-2 Washington A 5/23 L 0-1 Hofstra H
5/7 W 5-1 Washington H 5/24 W 3-1 Hofstra H
5/8 L 2-6 UCLA H  
Pitching ERA W-L G GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Dana Sorenson 1.44 28-9 44 36 28 12 242.1 145 65 293 .166
Laura Severson 2.04 13-7 26 21 11 5 134 111 54 110 .219
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Jackie Reinhart 191 33 67 6 1 0 5 .357 .390 .393 12/14
Lauren Lappin 173 37 60 13 4 2 40 .347 .400 .503 3/7
Jessica Allister 173 21 59 18 1 10 47 .341 .404 .630 2/3

#8 seed - Washington (40-17)
Date Result Score Opp Field   Date Result Score Opp Field
2/7 L 3-5 UCLA N 5/5 W 1-0 UCLA A
2/28 L 1-7 Florida St. N 5/7 L 1-5 Stanford A
2/28 L 2-4 LSU N 5/8 L 1-3 California A
3/14 L 4-5 California N 5/9 L 0-8 California A
3/20 W 1-0 Oklahoma N

NCAA Regionals
4/9 W 3-1 UCLA H 5/20 W 4-1 Chattanooga N
4/10 W 6-5 UCLA H 5/21 W 12-8 Michigan St. N
4/23 L 1-6 California H 5/22 W 2-0 Georgia Tech N
4/24 L 9-12 Stanford H 5/23 W 3-1 Georgia A
4/25 L 2-3 Stanford H  
Pitching ERA W-L G GS CG SHO IP H BB SO AVG.
Ashley Boek 1.63 29-11 44 41 32 11 266 219 113 276 .222
Tia Bollinger 3.24 11-6 25 16 13 2 114 117 37 114 .252
Hitting AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBA SLG SB/ATT
Kristen Rivera 141 37 55 10 1 17 47 .390 .563 .837 0/0
Dominique Lastrapes 194 41 74 10 0 0 20 .381 .438 .433 7/9
Sarah Hyatt 170 25 40 6 0 12 49 .235 .323 .482 1/1

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