Feb. 23, 2002

Box Score

WACO, Texas - Baylor's streak of consecutive no-hitters came to an end here Saturday, but that did not keep the Lady Bears from breaking the school record for consecutive wins. The Lady Bears defeated Akron 6-2 and then edged Oakland 1-0 in second-day action at the Compass Bank Invitational, running their winning streak to 12 games.

With the wins, Baylor is now 22-2 on the season and off to the best start in school history. The previous school mark for consecutive wins was 11, established last season.

In the first game, Baylor's Katie Decker held Akron hitless for two and one-third innings despite giving up one unearned run. She gave way to Joni Miller, who yielded a leadoff home run to Julie Villard in the fourth inning. That hit snapped Baylor's streak of 22 consecutive innings without allowing a hit, spanning four games. Akron's third-inning run off of Decker also put a stop to Baylor's consecutive scoreless inning streak at 25 and one-third innings. Both marks are school records.

Baylor got four unearned runs on three hits, a walk and two Akron errors in the second inning to take control of the game. Kelly Levesque drove in one run with a single to center, and Stacey Hundley had an RBI double down the left-field line.

The Lady Bears added another run in the fifth. Levesque walked to lead off the inning and later scored on Sarah Caudle's triple to right-center. That three-bagger was the fourth of the season for Caudle, tying Kristin Barton's single-season school record. She has also tied Lyn Hill's school mark for career triples with seven.

Baylor, playing as the visiting team, tacked on its final run in the top of the seventh on a Danelle Arnold RBI groundout.

Miller (9-1) picked up the victory in relief, she allowed one run on two hits with no walks and seven strikeouts. Decker fanned five of the seven batters she faced.

In the second game of the night, Holly Fields slapped a two-out double into the right-center gap to score Arnold in the bottom of the seventh as the Lady Bears defeated Oakland 1-0. Jaymie Voss held Baylor to just three hits through the first six innings. However, Arnold singled up the middle with one out and then moved to second on a Carrie Leerberg infield single, setting the stage for Fields' game-winner.

Cristin Vitek (8-1) went the distance and held Oakland to two hits with a walk and seven strikeouts.

In other action at the Compass Bank Invitaitonal, Creighton posted a pair of 1-0 wins over Oakland and Stephen F. Austin, and Akron defeated San Diego State 2-0. San Diego State and SFA played the late game.

Action gets underway here Sunday as Oakland faces Stephen F. Austin at 8 a.m., Akron takes on Creighton at 10, followed by Baylor and San Diego State at 1 p.m.