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PoCo pitcher leads SFU softball sweep

Senior pitcher Alia Stachoski, of Port Coquitlam, scattered seven hits and three runs in nine innings over the course of two games to lead the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s softball team to a doubleheader sweep of the Western Oregon Wolves, Su
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Senior pitcher Alia Stachoski, of Port Coquitlam, scattered seven hits and three runs in nine innings over the course of two games to lead the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s softball team to a doubleheader sweep of the Western Oregon Wolves, Sunday at Beedie Field in Burnaby.

Stachoski, a grad of Riverside secondary school, relieved starter Jessica Tate in the sixth inning of the first game and was able to preserve a 2-1 victory. It was her third save of the season.

But that was just a warmup for Stachoski’s complete-game 5-3 win in the day’s second game.

After Stachoski’s spotted the Wolves a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, that then extended to 3-0 on a two-run homer by Mariah Deleon in the top of the third, she settled down to pitch four scoreless innings. The bats of her Clan teammates, meanwhile, caught fire.

SFU got one run back in the bottom of the third, three in the fourth and another in the bottom of the sixth to claim their eighth win of the season against three losses.

“I was pleased with our team effort today,” SFU head coach Mike Renney said. “Our starting pitchers have complimented each other with their ability to give our opponents two distinct looks and both were on their games today.”

Stachoski has five wins and three losses this season, in addition to her three saves.

The Clan softballers play home-and-home doubleheaders against Western Washington University, Saturday in Bellingham and Sunday at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. at Beedie Field.

Wilson named to HOF

Coquitlam councillor Chris Wilson has been named to SFU’s 2018 Hall of Fame Class as part of the 1988 men’s wrestling team. 

The team, for which Wilson grappled in the 158-pound weight category, was the school’s first to win a NAIA wrestling championship. 

Wilson was also an All-American that year.

“Breaking through and winning a team title was extremely important to our athletes starting to believe we belonged at the top,” said the team’s coach, Mike Jones, who’s now retired. “That championship changed everything.”

Other inductees include basketball player Nikki Johnson, softballer Angela Lichty, and men’s soccer player Frode Strand-Nielsen.

All of the inductees will be honoured at the 2018 SFU Athletic Awards on March 27 at the Molson Canadian Theatre at the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver in Coquitlam.