Saturday, May 11, 2013

ARCATA, Calif. - Taviah Jenkins drove in four runs with a pair of home runs to lead Saint Martin's to a 8-5 win over Grand Canyon in a loser-out game at the NCAA West Regional softball tournament Saturday at Lumberjack Field.

Earlier in the day, the Saints dropped a 6-5 decision to top-seed Humboldt State.  SMU will play Humboldt State once again Sunday at noon.  If the Saints win, they'll play again at 2:30 p.m. The winner advances to a best-of-three series next week for the regional title against the winner of the St. George regional.

Jenkins homered for two runs in the third to give SMU a 5-4 lead, then added another two-run home run in the sixth to stretch a 6-5 lead to 8-5.

Those two blasts made a winner out of Sam Munger, who recorded her 24th win against eight losses  Munger, who scattered eight hits, also had a RBI single in the first to extend her hitting streak to 25 games.

Humboldt State scored three runs in the third inning to open up a 5-3 lead in its victory.  After the 'Jackets stretched their lead to 6-3 in the fourth, SMU climbed back to within one run on another two-run home run by Jenkins, but that was a close as the Saints could get.