Georgia’s World Series run ends with loss to UCLA
OKLAHOMA CITY – Ninth-ranked Georgia’s run at the 2010 Women’s College World Series came to an end Sunday afternoon as the Bulldogs fell to the fifth-ranked UCLA Bruins, 5-2, at the ASA Hall of Stadium.
Georgia finishes its 2010 season with a 50-13 record including a 2-2 mark at the WCWS. UCLA (48-11) advances to the WCWS Championship Series and will face the winner of Tennessee-Arizona semifinal.
The Bruins earned Sunday’s victory on a pair of early home runs from B.B. Bates and Sammy Camuso combined with a complete-game in the circle from Megan Langenfeld. Bates hit a two-run home run to right in the second that gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead, and in the third, Camuso extended the lead to 5-0 with a three-run homer to center Camuso. Camuso scored on Bates’ home run after drawing a walk while the two runners to score on Camuso’s home run reached on a pair of hit by pitches.
Langenfeld allowed two runs on two hits while striking out three in the complete-game effort to improve to 14-1 on the year. Erin Arevalo suffered the loss for the Bulldogs to conclude her sophomore season with a 20-7 record. Arevalo started and pitched into the second and later reentered in the fourth to toss a combined 4.1 innings allowing Bates’ home run. Freshman Alison Owen pitched 1.2 innings of relief in between Arevalo’s two stints in the game, and Owen surrendered the home run to Camuso.
The Bulldogs two runs came on a single to left in the fourth from junior Alisa Goler. Fellow juniors Taylor Schlopy and Megan Wiggins scored the runs. Schlopy drew a leadoff walk to start the frame while Wiggins doubled to left to put both runners in scoring position. Schlopy’s run scored on Goler’s single was her 79th of the season, establishing a new single-season school record. Wiggins’ double was the team’s 102nd of the year, which also established a new UGA single-season record, and it extended Wiggins on-base streak to 34 consecutive games.
Georgia, who advanced to its second-ever WCWS and made the final four in both appearances, concludes the 2010 having established several new single-season school records including…home runs (99), runs (422), doubles (102), RBI (380), total bases (944), walks (231), slugging percentage (.578) and on-base percentage (.413). Individually, in addition to establishing a new UGA single-season runs record with 79 runs scored, Schlopy also set a new on-base percentage record at .566 while Goler set a new walks record with 55.
