Viramontes Shuts Down Wolf Pack, Leads Lancers To Saturday Win

Saturday, May 1

Riverside, Calif.

12 PM

California Baptist University

20-28-1

Nevada

19-15

Nevada

CBU

Viramontes Shuts Down Wolf Pack, Leads Lancers To Saturday Win

5/1/2021 2:44:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

By: Daniel Cook, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications

RIVERSIDE – California Baptist University softball closed out its final non-conference series against the Nevada Wolf Pack on Saturday with a midday game at John C. Funk Stadium. The Lancers took the final game of the weekend, leading early and never trailing, claiming a final score of 3-1. The CBU record now stands at 20-28-1 while Nevada returns to Mountain West Conference action next week at 19-15 overall.

Kerisa Viramontes would shine again in the circle for the Lancers, earning her 15^th win of the season and reclaiming her conference leading spot in the category. She allowed just three hits and one unearned run in her 19^th complete game of the season. Though she collected just four strikeouts on the day, two of them came with the bases full of Wolves and two-outs, ending the innings and the threats.

Bases loaded? No problem for KʞKerisa Viramontes as she tacks on her third strikeout of game three to get out of the jam! #LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/ACtYG5pI7X
— California Baptist Softball (@CBUSoftball) May 1, 2021

Brittney Galvez wasted no time getting back up to game speed in her first start in nearly a month, as she scored Ashley McBay from second to give the Lancers an early lead in the bottom fo the first. Galvez would end the day by going 2-3 with that RBI. Deja Westbrook would tack on a second run for the Lancers, scoring pinch runner Michaila Harrington later in the first inning, the score that would later prove to be the game winner.

⚔️1⃣-0⃣🐺 We can always count on Brittney to come through when she is needed most 😏#LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/VLq0roTqRD
— California Baptist Softball (@CBUSoftball) May 1, 2021

CBU would get a little breathing room from Abby Robertson in the second when she singled through the right side, easily scoring Maile Olsen from third.

⚔️3⃣-0⃣🐺 Robertson plates another run for the Lancers!#LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/r8sNdsLsiP
— California Baptist Softball (@CBUSoftball) May 1, 2021

Nevada would recoup a run in the top of the third inning after a pair of Lancer errors allowed the inning to continue. Nevada officially went just 3-27 at the plate on Saturday, but three walks, two hit-by-pitches, and those four Lancer errors amounted to plenty of opportunities for the Pack as 10 Nevada baserunners to reach and eventually be stranded.

WHAT'S NEXT

The Lancers have just one series left on their schedule as they prepare to welcome the first-place New Mexico State Aggies to Funk Stadium next weekend. The Aggies are winners of their last nine games, sweeps of WAC foes Utah Valley, Tarleton State, and Dixie State. Their 26-18 record and 11-3 WAC standing affords them a one-game lead over Seattle U (23-18, 10-4 WAC) on the conference table. Doubleheader Friday is scheduled to start with a 5 p.m. first pitch and Senior Day Saturday will begin at 12 p.m.