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| Lindsey Ziegenhirt, after stroking a two-run homer Sunday |
Cal’s softball team will likely win 50 games this season.
The Bears swept Oregon State this past weekend in a three-game set to go 48-3
on the season, 19-2 in the Pac 12. There’s one more conference series this next
weekend, against Arizona State, and the NCAA regionals begin the following
weekend.
Sheldon’s Jolene Henderson has shared the pitching duties
with Valerie Arioto, who stands to be the NCAA player of the year with the kind
of season she is having. A senior from
Pleasanton, Arioto is batting .396 with 21 home runs and 55 RBI’s, plus an
amazing slugging percentage of 1.006. She leads Cal in all those categories. On
the mound she is 19-2 with a 1.29 ERA.
Henderson, who was a first-team All-American a year ago,
will likely repeat this season with the kind of numbers she has on the mound.
She’s 29-1 with a 1.10 ERA. She has struck out 226 batters in 190.2 innings
pitched.
Her Sheldon teammate, Lindsey Ziegenhirt, homered in
Sunday’s 4-1 win over Oregon State. She has been catching most of the games
this season for Cal. She has not committed an error this season in 226 chances.
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