Alia Stachoski may want to forget her last home game for the SFU Clan women’s softball team. The senior pitcher from Port Coquitlam was rocked for 16 hits and eight runs Monday in an 8-7 extra-innings loss in the second game of a doubleheader to Central Washington at Beedie Field in Burnaby.
The Clan also lost the first game, 5-1.
Stachoski threw nearly 200 pitches in the nine inning game that was tied 6-6 after seven innings. Neither team was able to put a run across the plate in the eighth inning even though each managed to get a runner on base.
In the top of the ninth, Stachoski give up a lead off single to Central Washington’s Bethany Balucan, who then advanced to second on a wild pitch. The next Wildcats’ batter, Rachel Johnson, reached base on an error and Balucan made it to third. Johnson stole second and then both she and Balucan scored when Savannah Egbert singled.
The Clan got one of those runs back in their half of the inning, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Stachoski’s record from dropping to 9 wins and nine losses.
Stachoski had earned her ninth win of the season last Friday, when she pitched the Clan to a 10-7 win in the first game of a doubleheader against the Saint Martin’s University Saints, also a Beedie Field. The Saints bounced back to win the second game, 6-4.
The weekend’s results drop the Clan’s Great Northwest Athletic conference record to 10 wins and 10 losses as the team embarks on eight straight road games to finish the season. They’re currently tied with Western Oregon for the last playoff spot, but the Wolves have played four fewer games.
They’ll make those up with a pair of doubleheaders this weekend, while the Clan don’t play again until April 21 in Ellensburg, WA., against Central Washington.
