2009 STANFORD SOFTBALL Softball Contact: Kendall Johnson Email: [email protected] • Office Phone: (650) 723-0996 • Cell Phone: (206) 214-5583 2009 Schedule/Results For Immediate Release: March 31, 2009 Overall Record: 31-2 • Pac-10 Record: 2-1 Date Opponent Location Result/Time Cardinal Heads To Oregon As 2/6 McNeese St. Tempe, AZ W, 15-2 (5) 2/6 Oklahoma St. Tempe, AZ L, 0-1 Nation’s No. 2 Team 2/7 Texas Tech Tempe, AZ W, 6-1 Stanford rises to its highest rank in school history and will head north to take on 2/7 Kansas Tempe, AZ W, 11-0 (5) Oregon State and Oregon this week. 2/8 Wagner Tempe, AZ W, 12-0 (5) 2/12 UCSB San Diego, CA W, 4-0 UP NEXT: On the back of reigning national player of the week Missy Penna, the No. 2/2 2/13 #24 Long Beach St. San Diego, CA W, 8-3 (5) 2/14 Utah St. San Diego, CA W, 9-5 Stanford softball team continues conference play in Oregon this week, looking to build on 2/15 #24 San Diego St. San Diego, CA W, 9-2 momentum gained with two wins over then-No. 2 Washington. The Cardinal will play its first 2/20 Sacramento St. Stanford, CA W, 6-1 Pac-10 road games of the new year, meeting Oregon State in Corvallis at 3 p.m. on Friday and 2/20 Notre Dame Stanford, CA W, 2-0 Oregon in Eugene on Saturday (1 p.m.) and Sunday (noon). 2/21 Western Ky. Stanford, CA W, 10-3 2/21 Notre Dame Stanford, CA W, 5-2 2/24 Saint Mary’s Stanford, CA W, 6-0 LAST TIME OUT: Stanford got a solid start to Pac-10 play last week, upending second-ranked 2/27 Indiana Fullerton, CA W, 10-1 (5) Washington twice to take over the No. 2 spot in the national polls. On Friday, Stanford’s 28- 2/27 Minnesota Fullerton, CA W, 7-0 game win streak came to an end against UCLA, but the team quickly bounced back. Junior 2/28 UC Riverside Fullerton, CA W, 14-1 (5) Rosey Neill was hit by a pitch with bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th inning to end a 2/28 Cal Poly Fullerton, CA W, 3-2 pitcher’s duel between Stanford’s Missy Penna and Washington’s Danielle Lawrie on Saturday. 3/1 CS Fullerton Fullerton, CA W, 7-0 3/6 Illinois St. Stanford, CA W, 3-0 On Sunday, junior Shannon Koplitz hit the game-winning home run in the bottom of the fourth 3/6 Penn St. Stanford, CA W, 8-0 (6) inning to beat the Huskies again. Rookie Ashley Hansen was the Cardinal’s top hitter over the 3/7 San Diego St. Stanford, CA W, 4-0 opening weekend, going 4-for-12 (.333). 3/7 Vermont Stanford, CA W, 6-1 3/8 Vermont Stanford, CA W, 3-0 LEADING THE NATION: Stanford enters the second week of Pac-10 play with the best win- 3/8 UC Davis Stanford, CA W, 1-0 ning percentage of any team in the nation (.939) and is the only team with just two losses. 3/20 Princeton Stanford, CA W, 1-0 3/21 Winthrop Stanford, CA W, 5-1 Top-ranked Florida is the only other team to have won more than 90 percent of its games 3/21 Santa Clara Stanford, CA W, 6-1 (34-3, .919). 3/22 Pacific Stanford, CA W, 6-0 3/23 Cal Poly Stanford, CA W, 2-1 (10) SCALING THE POLLS: Stanford is now unanimously No. 2 in the major collegiate softball 3/27 UCLA Stanford, CA L, 4-7 polls, matching its highest rank in school history. The Cardinal, which has appeared in every 3/28 Washington Stanford, CA W, 1-0 (11) 3/29 Washington Stanford, CA W, 2-0 4/3 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR 3 p.m. 2009 Stanford Softball Roster 4/4 Oregon Eugene, OR 1 p.m. 4/5 Oregon Eugene, OR 12 p.m. No. Name Pos. B/T Yr. Ht. Hometown (High School) 4/9 California Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 1 Jenna Becerra P/INF/OF R/R FR 5-8 Camarillo, Calif. (Westlake) 2 Maddy Coon INF R/R SR 5-7 Chappaqua, N.Y. (Horace Greeley) 4/10 California Berkeley, CA 4 p.m. 3 Ashley Hansen INF L/R FR 5-7 Chandler, Ariz. (Corona del Sol) 4/11 California Berkeley, CA 1 p.m. 4 Sarah Hassman OF S/R FR 5-6 Cupertino, Calif. (Monta Vista) 4/14 Santa Clara Stanford, CA 6 p.m. 5 Melisa Koutz INF R/R SO 5-10 Valencia, Calif. (Saugus) 4/17 Arizona Tucson, AZ 7 p.m. 6 Alissa Haber OF L/L JR 5-8 Newark, Calif. (Newark Memorial) 4/18 Arizona St. Tempe, AZ 7 p.m. 7 Ashley Chinn P R/R SO 5-6 Belmont, Calif. (Carlmont) 4/19 Arizona St. Tempe, AZ 12 p.m. 8 Mary Kate Smith INF R/R FR 5-10 Tampa, Fla. (Chamberlain) 4/22 San Jose St. Stanford, CA 6 p.m. 9 Missy Penna P/INF R/R SR 5-10 Miami, Fla. (Southwest) 4/24 Oregon Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 12 Autumn Albers OF L/R SO 5-3 Danville, Calif. (San Ramon Valley) 4/25 Oregon St. Stanford, CA 1 p.m. 13 Rosey Neill C R/R JR 5-7 Laguna Hills, Calif. (Laguna Hills) 4/26 Oregon St. Stanford, CA 12 p.m. 21 Erikka Moreno INF R/R SO 5-7 Villa Park, Calif. (Orange Lutheran) 5/1 Arizona St. Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 25 Maya Burns C/UTL R/R FR 5-8 San Mateo, Calif. (St. Ignatius) 5/2 Arizona Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 27 Brittany Minder C R/R SO 5-3 Moreno Valley, Calif. (Valley View) 5/3 Arizona Stanford, CA 12 p.m. 33 Christina Goswiller INF R/R FR 5-9 Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa) 5/7 Washington Seattle, WA 1 p.m. 36 Shannon Koplitz INF/OF R/R JR 5-6 New Orleans, La. (Benjamin Franklin) 5/8 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 3 p.m. 5/9 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 12 p.m. Head Coach: John Rittman (13th season, New Mexico State ‘86) Associate Head Coach: Trisha Ford (6th season, Saint Mary’s ‘99) Assistant Coach: Jessica Allister (3rd season, Stanford ‘04) Student Assistant Coach: Michelle Smith (1st season, Stanford ‘08) --2009 Stanford Softball-- regular-season NFCA poll for more than a decade, has been No. 2 only twice before - Feb. 20 and March USA Today/NFCA Poll 20 of the 2002 season. Six of the eight Pac-10 schools appeared in both polls, with as many as five ap- (March 31) pearing in the top-10. Stanford has now been in the NFCA top-five for seven straight weeks, the longest streak since 2002. 1. Florida 2. STANFORD THE LAST TIME STANFORD... 3. Washington 4. Arizona State Won a game .......................................................................................vs. Washington (2-0), 3/29/09 5. Alabama Lost a game ..................................................................................................vs. UCLA (4-7), 3/27/09 6. Georgia Won at home ......................................................................................vs. Washington (2-0), 3/29/09 Lost at home .................................................................................................vs. UCLA (4-7), 3/27/09 7. UCLA Won on the road ..........................................................................at Cal State Fullerton (7-0), 3/1/09 8. Northwestern Lost on the road.....................................................................................at Texas A&M (4-9), 5/25/08 9. Arizona Won by run-rule ..................................................................................... vs. Penn State (8-0), 3/6/09 10. Michigan Lost by run-rule..............................................................................................at Arizona (0-8), 5/9/08 11. Missouri Won in extra innings ...........................................................................vs. Washington (1-0), 3/28/09 12. Oklahoma Lost in extra innings ........................................................................ vs. Arizona State (0-3), 3/30/08 13. Tennessee Won a one-run game ..........................................................................vs. Washington (1-0), 3/28/09 14. California Lost a one-run game ..................................................................... vs. Oklahoma State (0-1), 2/6/09 15. North Carolina Shut out an opponent .........................................................................vs. Washington (2-0), 3/29/09 16. Louisville Was shut out .................................................................................. vs. Oklahoma State (0-1), 2/6/09 17. Ohio State Beat a Pac-10 opponent .....................................................................vs. Washington (2-0), 3/29/09 18. LSU Lost to a Pac-10 opponent ...........................................................................vs. UCLA (4-7), 3/27/09 Beat a ranked opponent ................................................................vs. #2 Washington (2-0), 3/29/09 19. Texas A&M Lost to an unranked opponent ....................................................... vs. Oklahoma State (0-1), 2/6/09 20. Louisiana-Lafayette 21. Florida State ONE STREAK ENDS, NEW ONE BEGINS: With Stanford’s loss to UCLA on Friday, one of the longest win- 22. DePaul ning streaks in NCAA history, and the longest by the Cardinal program, came to an end. Going into its 23. Massachusetts Pac-10 opener, Stanford had won 28 straight games, tying for the 17th-longest winning streak of all- 24. Southern Illinois time. It was the longest single-season run by a Pac-10 team since Arizona (31 games) and Cal (32 games) 25. Texas posted similar streaks early in 2001. Prior to this year, Stanford’s longest win streak was 16 games (2002). The team swept five tournaments and went 47 days, 188 innings and 28 games without suffering ESPN.com/USA Softball Poll (March 31) a loss. With the school’s overall win streak record broken, the team now takes aim at its Pac-10 win streak record - seven games during its 2005 Pac-10 title season.