CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Softball Media Guide 33 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2008 SEASON IN REVIEW Marissa Drewrey Valerie Arioto Erica Racklin 2008 SUMMARY program record with 56 runs in 1995 ... Ari- WALKING IT OFF oto’s 17 doubles were tied for third-most in Cal advanced to its third Super Regional a season ... her 48 walks were the fi fth most Cal showed a fl air for the dramatic, record- appearance since the NCAA adopted the in program history … Ericka Racklin tied ing four walk-off hits in the last month in a half Super Regional format beginning in 2005 … Keri Kropke for the most stolen bases in a of the 2008 season … Julie Meyer laced a 2008 marked Cal’s 23rd straight NCAA post- season (28) after swiping a bag in the Fresno two-out game-winning single to left fi eld in season appearance … Cal was an at-large Regional ... Marissa Drewrey established the bottom of the ninth inning in the Regional selection from the Pac 10 Conference … Cal’s single-season games started record Championship game against Fresno State, the Bears won the Fresno Regional, coming with 48, and ranked second in appearances sending the Bears to Gainesville … Valerie through the winner’s bracket … Cal picked in a season with 55. Arioto had a pair of walk-off doubles this year up an opening regional win over Mountain – her fi rst came in the bottom of the 11th in- West Champion San Diego State, 4-1 (May ninggg to give the Bears a 3-2 win over Oregon 16) … the Bears overcame a 102-degree TEAM SEASONEASON (Apr.(Apr. 11)11) andan then she capped off the month game-time temperature and a potent Aztec of April withwit a walk-off double in the bottom offense to capture its tenth postseason RECORDSRDS of the seventhseve to give Cal a 1-0 win over UC opening victory (out of 11) since the 1998 Cal’s 490 hitsits werewere Davis on Apr.A 30 … Bernice Masaniai drilled Regional … Cal returned back to Bulldog third in the Pac-10c-10 and Cal’sCal’s onlyonly walk-off home run of the year, Diamond on Saturday (May 17) defeating the the sixth-best markark in thethe beltingbelting herhe game-ending round tripper in host Bulldogs, 3-0 … Marissa Drewrey was school history ... Cal’sCal’s the bottom of the seventh inning sensational in the circle, yielding just six hits RBI production waswas of Cal’s 1-0 win over archrival (no walks with 10 strikeouts) for her 28th win steady as well inin Stanford on Apr. 20. of the season … it was the 10th time in 2008 2008 -- the Bearss that Drewrey fanned 10 or more batters in a accumulated a game … on championship Sunday (May 18), school-record 900 FOR Fresno State forced a second game by de- 279 RBI (third in NINEMIRE feating the Bears, 3-2, before Cal came back the Pac-10) ... Twenty-fi rst year head coach to win the Regional with a 7-6 victory in nine the timely hitting Diane Ninemire reached another innings … the score remained deadlocked at led to a bundlee milestonem in her storied Cal tenure 6-6 until the ninth inning when Julie Meyer of runs as well with careerca win No. 900, a 15-7 defeat of knocked the game-winning single down the -- Cal crossed LongLong BeachB State on Feb. 29. “I’m very left fi eld line to plate Bernice Masaniai (who home plate 318 proud tot have coached 21 years at Cal,” led off with a single) to send the Bears to the times -- second said Ninemire.N “The 900th win is very Gainesville Super Regional. most for a sea- son in program specialspecia and the team did it in style, put- history and tingting upup 15 runs against a quality oppo- PLAYER SEASON third best in the nent inin Long Beach State. I’m extremely Pac-10. proud ofo my career at Cal. Every win has RECORDS been sweet,sw but I’ll remember this for a After scoring six runs in the 2008 post- longlong time.”tim Ninemire has accumulated season, Valerie Arioto fi nished second on the second-mostsec wins in Pac-10 history Cal’s single-season chart for runs scored Head Coach andand isis the 11th softball coach in NCAA (55) ... Gillian Boxx holds the single-season Diane Ninemire historyhistory to have 900 or more win 34 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Softball Media Guidede CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2008 HONORS GINA LEOMITI Fresno Regional Co-MVP; 2nd team all-conference, Pac-10 Player of the Week MARISSA DREWREY Fresno All-Region, Pac-10 honorable mention, NFCA Pacifi c All-Region second team, Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week, Pac-10 Academic All-Conference VALERIE ARIOTO BERNICE MASANIAI SANOE KEKAHUNA KEKAHUNA All-Pac-10 second team, NFCA All-Pacifi c Region fi rst team, All-Pac-10 second team, NFCA Pacifi c All-Region second team, Pac-10 honorable mention Pac-10 all-freshman team Pac-10 all-freshman team KATIEK VICKERS Pac-10P honorable mention SAVANNAH HENSLEY Pac-10 all-academic 2009 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS Softball Media Guide 35 CALIFORNIA Golden Bears 2008 FINAL STATISTICS RECORD: 43-27 HOME: 11-5 AWAY: 5-15 NEUTRAL: 27-7 PAC-10: 7-14 BATTING Player AVG GP GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB SLG% BB HBP SO GDP OB% SF SH SB ATT PO A E FLD% Arioto .324 70 70 219 55 71 17 4 2 29 102 .466 48 0 51 1 .444 1 0 14 16 57 22 2 .975 Leomiti .321 67 67 187 46 60 12 0 8 50 96 .513 35 7 23 0 .443 1 7 8 9 55 1 1 .982 Kekahuna .299 70 69 201 34 60 15 1 8 46 101 .502 20 5 43 5 .374 1 0 4 7 387 19 6 .985 Vickers .290 67 65 183 16 53 4 0 1 22 60 .328 18 0 24 2 .348 3 7 2 2 58 112 14 .924 Masaniai .280 69 68 211 28 59 12 0 7 45 92 .436 22 4 35 2 .356 2 0 2 2 8 1 0 1.000 Racklin .258 70 70 221 45 57 2 0 0 10 59 .267 8 2 66 0 .289 1 13 28 32 59 2 4 .938 Kelly .252 53 47 103 19 26 1 0 1 10 30 .291 29 0 19 0 .417 0 2 3 3 65 63 24 .842 Hensley .250 39 5 12 13 3 1 0 0 2 4 .333 2 1 3 0 .400 0 1 1 2 1 4 2 .714 LaRosa .231 27 14 26 1 6 1 0 0 6 7 .269 0 0 6 0 .231 0 0 0 0 6 16 0 1.000 Sevilla .221 54 53 149 10 33 5 0 1 17 41 .275 9 2 17 1 .273 1 4 1 1 100 91 11 .946 Meyer .213 68 67 164 20 35 3 0 6 24 56 .341 27 8 46 0 .352 0 3 0 0 447 25 3 .994 Arth .200 26 8 25 6 5 1 0 1 3 9 .360 2 1 8 0 .286 0 0 0 0 8 8 4 .800 Camara .200 12 5 15 1 3 1 0 0 2 4 .267 4 0 4 0 .368 0 0 0 0 52 7 0 1.000 Houston .183 57 39 93 21 17 1 1 1 11 23 .247 13 3 24 0 .303 0 5 10 10 74 46 6 .952 Bauer .125 23 4 16 3 2 1 0 1 2 6 .375 3 0 6 1 .263 0 1 0 0 5 8 2 .867 Totals .268 70 70 1825 318 490 77 6 37 279 690 .378 240 33 375 12 .362 10 43 73 84 1388 468 80 .959 Opponents .227 70 70 1748 197 397 56 5 20 181 523 .299 263 35 464 5 .339 6 56 75 85 1370 564 82 .959 LOB - Team (466), Opp (526). DPs turned - Team (17), Opp (26). IBB - Team (2), Arioto 2, Opp (17). Picked off - Masaniai 1, Kelly 1. PITCHING (ALL GAMES SORTED BY EARNED RUN AVG) Player ERA W L APP GS CG SHO CBO SV IP H R ER BB SO 2B 3B HR AB B/Avg WP HBP BK SFA SHA Arioto 1.93 8 3 30 8 2 1 2 1 87.0 60 37 24 57 105 5 0 5 323 .186 12 8 0 0 9 Drewrey 1.94 29 19 55 48 33 11 0 1 314.0 274 115 87 157 312 40 5 12 1178 .233 20 24 0 5 41 LaRosa 4.20 6 5 24 14 1 0 2 0 61.2 63 45 37 49 47 11 0 3 247 .255 7 3 0 1 6 Totals 2.24 43 27 70 70 36 14 2 2 462.2 397 197 148 263 464 56 5 20 1748 .227 39 35 0 6 56 Opponents 3.57 27 43 70 70 37 5 0 3 456.2 490 318 233 240 375 77 6 37 1825 .268 34 33 4 10 43 PB - Team (19), Meyer 13, Camara 6, Opp (15). Pickoffs - Team (2), Meyer 1, Arioto 1, Opp (2). SBA/ATT - Meyer (69-77), Drewrey (49-56), Arioto (15-18), LaRosa (11-11), Camara (6-8). USA TODAY/NFCA TOP 25 FINAL POLL ESPN.COM/USA SOFTBALL COLLEGIATE (June 10, 2008) TOP 25 FINAL POLL (June 10, 2008) Rank Team Record Pts Rank Team Record Points 1 Arizona State 66-5 750 1 Arizona State 66-3 500 2 Texas A&M 57-10 716 2 Texas A&M 57-10 478 3 Florida 70-5 691 3 Florida 70-5 457 4 Alabama 58-8 655 4 Alabama 58-8 436 5 UCLA 51-9 620 5 UCLA 51-9 409 6 Louisiana-Lafayette 52-15 587 6 Louisiana-Lafayette 52-15 396 7 Arizona 41-19 570 7 Arizona 41-19 378 8 Virginia Tech 49-19 560 8 Virginia Tech 49-19 376 9 Michigan 52-8 444 9 Michigan 52-8 325 10 Oklahoma 47-14 441 10 Oklahoma 47-14 307 11 Stanford 49-15 430 11 Northwestern 40-16 288 12 Northwestern 40-16 425 12 Houston 54-11 279 13 Houston 54-11 415 13 Stanford 49-15 272 14 Tennessee 50-16 270 14 California 43-27 210 15 Fresno State 54-13 262 15 Fresno State 54-13 168 16 California 43-27 254 16 Missouri 47-17 166 17 Georgia 46-24 247 17 Tennessee 50-16 163 18 LSU 44-18 220 18 Georgia 46-24 153 19 Missouri 47-17 188 19 LSU 44-18 130 20 North Carolina 50-12-1 174 20 Nevada 44-18 94 21 Nevada 44-18 172 21 DePaul 51-18 90 22 DePaul 51-18 157 22 Long Beach State 42-16 79 23 Long Beach State 40-17 140 23 UMass 42-12 78 24 San Diego State 44-17 93 24 San Diego St.