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Softball Regional
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The Rattlers celebrate advancing to the Super Regional.
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Winner St. Mary's STMU 45-10
3
Metro State MSUD 42-15
Winner
St. Mary's STMU
45-10
5
Final
3
Metro State MSUD
42-15
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
St. Mary's STMU 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 5 9 1
Metro State MSUD 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 2

W: Russell, Hope (17-5) L: Kenzie Mattey (16-4) S: Rangel, Kristi (4)

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Metro State MSUD 44-16
8
Winner St. Mary's STMU 46-10
Metro State MSUD
44-16
2
Final
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St. Mary's STMU
46-10
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Metro State MSUD 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 3
St. Mary's STMU 1 1 0 0 1 5 X 8 11 1

W: Gutierrez Touchtone, Vianna (27-5) L: Kenzie Mattey (17-4)

Game Recap: Softball | | RattlerAthletics.com

SUPER once again! No. 7 Softball headed back to Super Regional

By Chad Peters | St. Mary's Athletics Communications

SAN ANTONIO — St. Mary's Softball is once again on the cusp of advancing to the NCAA Division II Women's College World Series.  
 
The No. 7-ranked Rattlers advanced out of the loser's bracket of the South Central Regional on Sunday by taking two games from No. 18 Metro State, winning 5-3 and 8-2 in the final round to advance to NCAA Division II South Central Super Regional.
 
St. Mary's all-time hits leader Nicole Sardelich went 3 for 4, Vianna Gutierrez Touchtone and Alex Rodriguez each homered, and the high-flying Rattlers (46-10) scored eight unanswered runs to seal their berth in next week's Super Regional.
 
"For us to break it open like we did, it's a tribute to the team," head coach Donna Fields said. "We definitely had to beat a very good team to take the tournament."
 
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Coach Donna Fields get an ice-cold shower afterward.

St. Mary's, the second seed in the bracket, will host No. 8 seed Tarleton State (33-20) in the Super Regional, likely set for Friday-Saturday at the Softball Stadium inside The Park at St. Mary's. The official date and time of the best-of-3 series will be announced on RattlerAthletics.com early in the week.
 
The winner will advance to the World Series.
 
For St. Mary's, Fields is seeking her fourth trip to the World Series, having won the South Central Region in 2002, 2003 and 2005. She led St. Mary's to the NCAA D-II national championship in 2002 and won the NAIA national championship as a player in 1986. In all, this season marks the 13th time since 2001 that she has led the team to the regional tournament.
 
Lost in the fireworks of a home-run hitting, stat-stuffing affair was a fifth-inning play that shows up in the box score as nothing more than an ordinary groundout to shortstop. But Miranda Medina's diving, inning-ending stop of a hard-hit ball off the bat of Mary Towner was nothing but ordinary. Medina robbed Towner of a go-ahead RBI hit with the game deadlocked at 2-2, getting off the ground and firing a rocket to first base to get out of the inning unscathed.
 
"Our defense really stepped up this game," Gutierrez Touchtone said. "It was just a matter of who was going to make the least amount of errors and score the most amount of runs. We came out on top."
 
In the bottom of the inning, it was the Rattlers who pulled ahead, as Hannah Michel came around on an error following a sacrifice bunt from Hannah Fields. Then came a five-run sixth inning, which saw Gutierrez Touchtone launch a solo home run and Fields fire a two-RBI double. Sardelich and Taylor Vidrine also had RBIs in the inning.
 
Earlier in the game, Sydney Wellmann helped the Rattlers eat into a 2-0 first-inning deficit with an RBI double to left field. An inning later, Rodriguez sent a solo shot to center field to even the score at 2-2.
 
"That hit, Coach always says the home runs are going to come," Rodriguez said. "I was really fired up because we were down. I knew we weren't done yet. I just knew we weren't done."
 
In the circle, Gutierrez Touchtone struck out two in the complete-game victory. She improved to 27-5 on the season.
 
In Game 1, St. Mary's avenged a 6-5 loss to Metro State earlier in the tournament by taking a 5-0 lead into the seventh inning. A three-run home run from Susie Oury made things interesting late, but the Rattlers survived behind a sterling performance from freshman pitcher Hope Russell. She fanned two and scattered five hits in 6 1/3 innings to improve to 17-5, while Kristi Rangel shut the door in relief earn her fourth save.
 
Sardelich was 3 for 4 in the game with two runs scored, while Haley Richter drove in two runs on one hit. Rodriguez added two hits in three at-bats.
 
"The fact we're getting to host the Super Regional is the most amazing feeling," Sardelich said.
 
Next week's Super Regional will be broadcast live on the Rattler Network at http://www.RattlerAthletics.com/Live.
 
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