April 3, 2002
Box Score
LAS VEGAS - Geney Orris and Jackie Kerrigan pitched the UNLV softball team to a doubleheader sweep of UC Riverside by scores of 6-2 and 6-0 at Eller Media Stadium on Wednesday.
Making a second straight start for the Rebels (21-25), Orris (5-5) controlled the Highlanders (7-30) from the circle, allowing just a single earned run and scattering eight hits for little damage. She was perhaps more impressive at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a double that set up the Rebels' first two runs and a two-run fourth-inning homer that nailed the coffin shut.
Kerrigan (8-11) snapped a five-game losing streak with a three-hit shutout in the nightcap. The Rebs' fab freshman carried a no-hitter into the fifth, marred only by a meaningless first-inning fielding error. She pitched with a lead throughout the game after an Orris double drove in Bridget Byrne in the bottom of the first.
The Highlanders' Andrea Cunningham figured Kerrigan out in the fifth, driving a solid single up the middle to quell the excitement. Kerrigan gave up leadoff singles in the sixth and seventh, also, but never allowed a runner to get past second base.
UCR starter Jessica Gandara held her team within a run for three innings, but UNLV went to work in the fourth. A leadoff triple by Pauline Glenn sparked a four-run inning in which 10 Rebels went to the plate. Arica Painter drove in a run on an infield single, Lisa Moses drew a bases-loaded walk to send one home, and freshman Kira Enlow's pinch-hit single scored the last two and put the Rebels up 5-0.
Gandara (1-4) took both losses in the doubleheader, but split the pitching duties in both games with reliever Monique Baeza. The Rebels scored six runs on eight hits in each game against the combo.
Orris was the Rebels' star of the day, going 5-for-8 from the plate with two runs scored, three RBI, two doubles and a home run. Painter quietly hit 2-for-4 while driving in four runs and scoring once.
The matchup pitted UCR head coach Rachel Miller-Reif, a former Rebel player under head coach Shan McDonald, against her mentor.
Winners of three straight, the Rebels return to conference play this Saturday, April 6, when they host San Diego State at 3:30 p.m., a change from an originally scheduled 5 p.m. start.
