Box Score: Coyotes 13, Dominican 0
Box Score: Coyotes 5, Grand Canyon 4
TURLOCK – The Coyotes scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to earn a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over Grand Canyon at the Mizuno Tournament of Champions, held at Cal State Stanislaus.
Trailing 4-0,
Britney Butler gave the Coyotes their first hit of the game and
Jamie Leffingwell followed with another single. Each moved over on a stolen base and one out later,
Jamie Roland's run-scoring single scored Butler.
With
Alex Mitchell at the plate, Leffingwell scored on a wild pitch to cut the deficit to 4-2.
Mitchell then walked and senior
Jacquelyn Holtzclaw ripped a two-run triple to left center and the Coyotes tied the game at 4-4.
Junior
Courtney Wilhelms earned the game-winning RBI when her groundout to third scored Holtzclaw.
Cassidy Lee earned the win in relief of
Brianne Godfredson. Lee threw 1 2/3 innings and gave up just one hit with two strikeouts.
In the Coyotes' first game of the tourney, they defeated Dominican 13-0 in a game that ended after five innings.
Stefanie Pace went 3-for-3, while Holtzclaw and Wilhelms each had two hits.
Godfredson threw a two-hit shutout.