Softball Blanked by No. 16 OSU 4-0
3/23/2003 12:00:00 AM | Softball
March 23, 2003
WACO, Texas - For the second straight day, Baylor batters found no way to solve Oklahoma State's Lauren Bay as the 16th-ranked Cowgirls clipped the Lady Bears 4-0 here Sunday in Big 12 Conference softball action. Baylor falls to 24-13 on the season and 0-2 in the Big 12. OSU, which sweeps the conference series, improves to 24-6 overall and 4-0 in league play with its 10th straight victory.
Bay (13-3), a strong candidate for the Canada National Team at the 2004 Olympic Games, allowed just two hits with 15 strikeouts for her second straight complete-game shutout of the Lady Bears. Carrie Leerberg had a bunt single and Sarah Caudle infield single up the middle were Baylor's only hits. Bay hit Kelly Osburn in the bottom of the first, and Kourtny Westerfeld reached on a strike-three wild pitch for Baylor's only other base runners on the day.
Ryan Realmuto provided Bay all the offensive support she needed in the top of the first inning. Calli Behmer singled in front of a diving Osburn in left with one out and the moved to second on a Megan Carey walk. Realmuto followed with her third home run of the season to right-center.
OSU tacked on another run in the fifth, thanks to a pinch-hit solo home run by Alliya Anderson. That home run was the only hit allowed by Baylor pitching after Realmuto's first-inning homer.
Cristin Vitek (11-7) started and took the loss for Baylor; she allowed four runs on three hits and two walks with five strikeouts in five innings of work. Katie Decker allowed one walk and struck out one in two no-hit innings of relief.
Baylor returns to action Wednesday, traveling to Austin, Texas, for a 6:30 p.m. game at No. 7 Texas.
Notes: Baylor falls to 14-2 at home this season. The Lady Bears are 39-8 at Getterman Stadium since the beginning of the 2002 season. ... Osburn's first-inning hit-by-pitch extends her school-record streak of consecutive games reached base to 30. ... Wilmoth's career-long streaks of 11 games (hitting) and 13 games (on base) both came to an end. ... Oklahoma State becomes the first team to shutout Baylor in consecutive home games since the program's reinstatement in 1996. ... Oklahoma State now leads the all-time series 19-8.
