Lady Panthers Victorious over Renegades

On March 23, 2017 the Hartnell College Softball Team hosted Northern Conference rival, Ohlone College. The Lady Panthers used every hit and sacrifice to beat the Renegades. During the first two innings, Hartnell displayed some nervousness as they were short on throws. Ohlone took advantage of the Panthers small errors by the defense producing a 2-0 lead. The Lady Panthers quickly responded with more confidence. Student-athlete, pitcher Danielle Caoili, shut down Ohlone the next following innings and helped her team to take the lead with a score of 3-2 by the end of the fifth inning. At the bottom of the 7th inning, Ohlone and Hartnell were tied 3-3. Lady Panther Emily Espinosa, led with a single to right center field; she was followed by peer Alizha Barrera placing a perfect sacrifice bunt to send Emily Espino to second base. With one out to go, all attention was on batter Kaitlyn Doyle. She came up with a shallow fly ball allowing student-athlete Emily Espinosa to tag up on the catch and score to end the inning. The final score was 4-3 with the Lady Panthers taking the victory over Ohlone. The Hartnell Softball team remains in first place for the Coast Conference South Division, with a record of 6-2.

The Women’s Softball Team will be traveling away for the next game on, March 28, 2017 against Chabot College at 3:00 p.m.