Article, 2011 Season - Ohlone Renegades Women's Softball
Ohlone closing in on another title
By Biff Jones.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011—Reprinted from Tri-City Voice.
With time running out on the regular season, both the Chabot College Lady Gladiators and Ohlone College Lady Renegades softball teams had a full slate of games a week ago. Ohlone -- vying for its ninth consecutive Coast Conference North regular season title -- and Chabot still had work to do in order to get bids into the California Community College Athletic Association postseason tournament.
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After ousting Chabot, De Anza went on to play Ohlone on Thursday, April 21. Ohlone's only chance at winning its ninth straight CCN title was winning its final two games -- against De Anza and then at home vs. first-place San Mateo (who leads the Lady Renegades by one game).
De Anza got on the board first with a run in the third and three more in the fourth. Ohlone answered with two in their half of the fourth and tied it at 4 with two in the fifth. That was all the scoring until the eighth when Renegade catcher Shelby Fowler led off by reaching on a De Anza error and then stole second base. With two outs, Brittany Hillman drove in Fowler with the winning run on a single to left for the 5-4 victory.
Ohlone ace Jessica Varady went the distance to improve to 23-5. She gave up eight hits, one walk and struck out 11. Hillman, Varady and Candice Christiansen all had two hits. Stefanie Hatley had a homerun and two RBIs.
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San Mateo's loss put them in a first-place tie with Ohlone. Now, on Tuesday, April 26, in Fremont, the two clubs will battle it out for CCN supremacy in the final game of the regular season; first pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. Both teams will receive automatic bids to the CCCAA playoffs as conference winner and runner up. Log onto the Tri-City Voice Sports website -- http://sports.tricityvoice.com -- to find out the result and the schedule for the CCCAA Nor Cal regional tournament.
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