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: April 15, 2009 Overall Record: 36-4 • Pac-10 Record: 6-3 Date Opponent Location Result/Time No. 2/2 Stanford Plays Critical 2/6 McNeese St. Tempe, AZ W, 15-2 (5) 2/6 Oklahoma St. Tempe, AZ L, 0-1 Conference Series In The Desert 2/7 Texas Tech Tempe, AZ W, 6-1 The Pac-10’s first and second place teams will meet in a nationally televised game on 2/7 Kansas Tempe, AZ W, 11-0 (5) Friday night, then Stanford meets No. 5/8 Arizona State for two games in Tempe. 2/8 Wagner Tempe, AZ W, 12-0 (5) 2/12 UCSB San Diego, CA W, 4-0 UP NEXT 2/13 #24 Long Beach St. San Diego, CA W, 8-3 (5) The No. 2/2 Stanford softball team (36-4, 6-3 Pac-10) plays a critical series in Arizona this 2/14 Utah St. San Diego, CA W, 9-5 week, meeting two top-10 teams in the desert. First, the second-place Cardinal will face the 2/15 #24 San Diego St. San Diego, CA W, 9-2 only team ahead of it in the Pac-10 standings, No. 9/11 Arizona (33-9, 5-2 Pac-10), in a game 2/20 Sacramento St. Stanford, CA W, 6-1 televised by CBS College Sports. The squad will then head north to Tempe to play Saturday 2/20 Notre Dame Stanford, CA W, 2-0 and Sunday games against No. 5/8 Arizona State (34-8, 4-3 Pac-10). Game times Friday and 2/21 Western Ky. Stanford, CA W, 10-3 Saturday are both 7 p.m., with the Sunday contest set for noon. 2/21 Notre Dame Stanford, CA W, 5-2 2/24 Saint Mary’s Stanford, CA W, 6-0 LAST TIME OUT 2/27 Indiana Fullerton, CA W, 10-1 (5) Stanford played a three-game series with No. 16/17 California last week and lost the series 2/27 Minnesota Fullerton, CA W, 7-0 for the first time in two years. Stanford started strong, with freshman Ashley Hansen pound- 2/28 UC Riverside Fullerton, CA W, 14-1 (5) 2/28 Cal Poly Fullerton, CA W, 3-2 ing the game-winning double to beat the Bears at Smith Family Stadium Thursday night. On 3/1 CS Fullerton Fullerton, CA W, 7-0 Friday, two Cal home runs lifted the Bears to a 3-1 win, and a walk-off home run by junior 3/6 Illinois St. Stanford, CA W, 3-0 Taylor Kelly in the bottom of the seventh on Saturday gave them the rubber game, 8-6. 3/6 Penn St. Stanford, CA W, 8-0 (6) Hansen (.417) and sophomore first baseman Melisa Koutz (.444) paced Stanford for the week- 3/7 San Diego St. Stanford, CA W, 4-0 end, combining for nine hits, two doubles and five RBI. On Tuesday, sophomore Ashley Chinn 3/7 Vermont Stanford, CA W, 6-1 posted her seventh career shutout in a 7-0 win over Santa Clara. 3/8 Vermont Stanford, CA W, 3-0 3/8 UC Davis Stanford, CA W, 1-0 TV TALK 3/20 Princeton Stanford, CA W, 1-0 Stanford’s game this Friday is its second of four televised games during the Pac-10 season. 3/21 Winthrop Stanford, CA W, 5-1 The game will air live at 7 p.m. (PT) on Friday night, then be reshown Saturday at 7 a.m. and 3/21 Santa Clara Stanford, CA W, 6-1 6 p.m., Monday at 9 a.m. and Tuesday at 3 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. 3/22 Pacific Stanford, CA W, 6-0 3/23 Cal Poly Stanford, CA W, 2-1 (10) SCALING THE POLLS 3/27 #4 UCLA Stanford, CA L, 4-7 3/28 #2 Washington Stanford, CA W, 1-0 (11) 3/29 #2 Washington Stanford, CA W, 2-0 2009 Stanford Softball Roster 4/3 Oregon St. Corvallis, OR W, 4-2 No. Name Pos. B/T Yr. Ht. Hometown (High School) 4/4 Oregon Eugene, OR W, 11-0 1 Jenna Becerra P/INF/OF R/R FR 5-8 Camarillo, Calif. (Westlake) 4/5 Oregon Eugene, OR W, 5-2 2 Maddy Coon INF R/R SR 5-7 Chappaqua, N.Y. (Horace Greeley) 4/9 #16 California Stanford, CA W, 4-1 3 Ashley Hansen INF L/R FR 5-7 Chandler, Ariz. (Corona del Sol) 4/10 #16 California Berkeley, CA L, 1-3 4 Sarah Hassman OF S/R FR 5-6 Cupertino, Calif. (Monta Vista) 5 Melisa Koutz INF R/R SO 5-10 Valencia, Calif. (Saugus) 4/11 #16 California Berkeley, CA L, 6-8 6 Alissa Haber OF L/L JR 5-8 Newark, Calif. (Newark Memorial) 4/14 Santa Clara Stanford, CA W, 7-0 7 Ashley Chinn P R/R SO 5-6 Belmont, Calif. (Carlmont) 4/17 #9 Arizona Tucson, AZ 7 p.m. 8 Mary Kate Smith INF R/R FR 5-10 Tampa, Fla. (Chamberlain) 4/18 #5 Arizona St. Tempe, AZ 7 p.m. 9 Missy Penna P/INF R/R SR 5-10 Miami, Fla. (Southwest) 4/19 #5 Arizona St. Tempe, AZ 12 p.m. 12 Autumn Albers OF L/R SO 5-3 Danville, Calif. (San Ramon Valley) 4/22 San Jose St. Stanford, CA 6 p.m. 13 Rosey Neill C R/R JR 5-7 Laguna Hills, Calif. (Laguna Hills) 4/24 Oregon Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 21 Erikka Moreno INF R/R SO 5-7 Villa Park, Calif. (Orange Lutheran) 4/25 Oregon St. Stanford, CA 1 p.m. 25 Maya Burns C/UTL R/R FR 5-8 San Mateo, Calif. (St. Ignatius) 4/26 Oregon St. Stanford, CA 12 p.m. 27 Brittany Minder C R/R SO 5-3 Moreno Valley, Calif. (Valley View) 5/1 Arizona St. Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 33 Christina Goswiller INF R/R FR 5-9 Manhattan Beach, Calif. (Mira Costa) 36 Shannon Koplitz INF/OF R/R JR 5-6 New Orleans, La. (Benjamin Franklin) 5/2 Arizona Stanford, CA 7 p.m. 5/3 Arizona Stanford, CA 12 p.m. Head Coach: John Rittman (13th season, New Mexico State ‘86) 5/7 Washington Seattle, WA 1 p.m. Associate Head Coach: Trisha Ford (6th season, Saint Mary’s ‘99) 5/8 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 3 p.m. Assistant Coach: Jessica Allister (3rd season, Stanford ‘04) 5/9 UCLA Los Angeles, CA 12 p.m. Student Assistant Coach: Michelle Smith (1st season, Stanford ‘08) --2009 Stanford Softball-- Stanford remains unanimously No. 2 in the major collegiate softball polls, holding the spot for the third USA Today/NFCA Poll straight week. The Cardinal, which has appeared in every regular-season NFCA poll for more than a (April 14) decade, has been No. 2 only twice before - Feb. 20 and March 20 of the 2002 season. Holding onto the highest rank in school history, it is the first time ever that the Cardinal has been No. 2 in consecutive 1. Florida weeks. It is also the highest that the Cardinal has been ranked after the start of Pac-10 play. Six of the 2. STANFORD eight Pac-10 schools appeared in both polls, with as many as five appearing in the top-10. Stanford has 3. UCLA now been in the NFCA top-five for nine straight weeks, the longest streak since 2002. 4. Washington 5. Arizona State THE BIG STREAK 6. Georgia THE LAST TIME STANFORD... 7. Alabama 8. Michigan Won a game .......................................................................................vs. Santa Clara (7-0), 4/14/09 9. Arizona Lost a game ..............................................................................................at California (6-8), 4/11/09 10. Northwestern Won at home ......................................................................................vs. Santa Clara (7-0), 4/14/09 11. Missouri Lost at home .................................................................................................vs. UCLA (4-7), 3/27/09 12. Tennessee Won on the road ............................................................................................at Oregon (5-2), 4/5/09 13. North Carolina Lost on the road........................................................................................at California (6-8), 4/11/09 Won by run-rule ..................................................................................... vs. Penn State (8-0), 3/6/09 14. California Lost by run-rule..............................................................................................at Arizona (0-8), 5/9/08 15. Oklahoma Won in extra innings ...........................................................................vs. Washington (1-0), 3/28/09 Ohio State Lost in extra innings ........................................................................ vs. Arizona State (0-3), 3/30/08 17. Louisville Won a one-run game ..........................................................................vs. Washington (1-0), 3/28/09 18. LSU Lost a one-run game ..................................................................... vs. Oklahoma State (0-1), 2/6/09 19. Florida State Shut out an opponent .........................................................................vs. Santa Clara (7-0), 4/14/09 20. DePaul Was shut out .................................................................................. vs. Oklahoma State (0-1), 2/6/09 21. Massachusetts Beat a Pac-10 opponent ...........................................................................vs. California (4-1), 4/9/09 22. Cal Poly Lost to a Pac-10 opponent .......................................................................at California (6-8), 4/11/09 23. Iowa Beat a ranked opponent ....................................................................vs. #16 California (4-1), 4/9/09 24. Southern Illinois Lost to an unranked opponent ....................................................... vs. Oklahoma State (0-1), 2/6/09 25. Louisiana-Lafayette With Stanford’s loss to UCLA on March 27, one of the longest winning streaks in NCAA history, and the ESPN.com/USA Softball Poll longest by the Cardinal program, came to an end. Going into its Pac-10 opener, Stanford had won 28 (April 14) straight games, tying for the 17th-longest winning streak of all-time.