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Maya Brady (photo: Mike Christy)
Photo by: Pac-12 Conference
Brady Pushes UCLA to 4-3 Win Over Arizona in Pac-12 Tournament Quarterfinals
May 11, 2023 | Softball
TUCSON, Ariz. – Maya Brady homered twice, once to tie the game and once to give the No. 1 seed UCLA softball team the lead, in the Bruins' 4-3 victory over Arizona at the Pac-12 Tournament Quarterfinals at Rita Hillenbrand Stadium Thursday.
The Bruins (51-4, 21-3) advance into the semifinals and will face No. 4 seed Stanford tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. (PT) on ESPN2.
Redshirt senior Megan Faraimo earned her NCAA-leading 29th win of the season and struck out seven Wildcats (29-25) in a complete-game effort. The back-to-back Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year has now earned the win in each of her last 16 appearances.
However, Arizona scratched the first two runs of the game off Faraimo. Kaiah Altmeyer brought in the first tally for Arizona on a RBI double into shallow right-center in the second inning. A collision in the outfield prevented second baseman Anna Vines from getting to the ball for the third out. Arizona scored again in the third thanks to a pair of doubles by left fielder Dakota Kennedy and pitcher Devyn Netz.
Brady belted her first of two home runs with a two-run equalizer in the bottom half to put the Bruins back in the ballgame.
Faraimo walked the lead-off batter in the fifth, and a groundout and wild pitch moved that runner 60 feet away from home. A single by Allie Skaggs into center field regained Arizona the lead, 3-2, for a brief moment. Freshman Megan Grant made a leaping, on-the-run catch in right field to prevent an extra-base hit and save two runs from scoring.
The two All-Pac-12 First Team selections Grant and Brady went back-to-back with two moonshot, solo home runs to tie the game and put the Bruins ahead for good. Grant's 13th homer of the year cleared the center field batter's eye by roughly 10 feet. Brady's bomb went just as far, except to right field.
Brady's two blasts mark the sixth multi-homer performance of her career, her fourth this season and her second against the Wildcats at Rita Hillenbrand Stadium. In eight career games in Tucson, Brady owns a .500 batting average (13-for-26) and 1.385 slugging percentage with seven home runs, two doubles and 14 runs batted in.
The UCLA ace Faraimo left nothing up to chance, retiring the last six batters she faced in the sixth and seventh innings. Faraimo struck out four of the first five batters she faced.
Mark Neely and Danielle Lawrie will be on the call for the Bruins' nationally televised game tomorrow night.
The Bruins (51-4, 21-3) advance into the semifinals and will face No. 4 seed Stanford tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. (PT) on ESPN2.
Redshirt senior Megan Faraimo earned her NCAA-leading 29th win of the season and struck out seven Wildcats (29-25) in a complete-game effort. The back-to-back Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year has now earned the win in each of her last 16 appearances.
However, Arizona scratched the first two runs of the game off Faraimo. Kaiah Altmeyer brought in the first tally for Arizona on a RBI double into shallow right-center in the second inning. A collision in the outfield prevented second baseman Anna Vines from getting to the ball for the third out. Arizona scored again in the third thanks to a pair of doubles by left fielder Dakota Kennedy and pitcher Devyn Netz.
Brady belted her first of two home runs with a two-run equalizer in the bottom half to put the Bruins back in the ballgame.
Faraimo walked the lead-off batter in the fifth, and a groundout and wild pitch moved that runner 60 feet away from home. A single by Allie Skaggs into center field regained Arizona the lead, 3-2, for a brief moment. Freshman Megan Grant made a leaping, on-the-run catch in right field to prevent an extra-base hit and save two runs from scoring.
The two All-Pac-12 First Team selections Grant and Brady went back-to-back with two moonshot, solo home runs to tie the game and put the Bruins ahead for good. Grant's 13th homer of the year cleared the center field batter's eye by roughly 10 feet. Brady's bomb went just as far, except to right field.
Brady's two blasts mark the sixth multi-homer performance of her career, her fourth this season and her second against the Wildcats at Rita Hillenbrand Stadium. In eight career games in Tucson, Brady owns a .500 batting average (13-for-26) and 1.385 slugging percentage with seven home runs, two doubles and 14 runs batted in.
The UCLA ace Faraimo left nothing up to chance, retiring the last six batters she faced in the sixth and seventh innings. Faraimo struck out four of the first five batters she faced.
Mark Neely and Danielle Lawrie will be on the call for the Bruins' nationally televised game tomorrow night.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Faraimo, Megan (29-2)
L: Netz (16-16)
Batting:
2B: Kennedy 1 ; Netz 1 ; Altmeyer 1
RBI: Netz 1 ; Skaggs 1 ; Altmeyer 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Kennedy 1 ; Biringer 1 ; Biehl 1
HBP: DiNardo 1
Batting:
HR: Grant, Megan 1 ; Brady, Maya 2
RBI: Grant, Megan 1 ; Brady, Maya 3
SH: Powell, Kennedy 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Grant, Megan 2 ; Brady, Maya 2
SB: Godin, Kelli 1
Game Leaders
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R
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H
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