The College of San Mateo women’s softball team has achieved several state milestones over the past ten days to challenge for top state ranking:

–Blanking then No. 1 ranked (in state) College of the Siskiyous, 2-0

–Beating No.4 Sierra, 8-5 — and then moving up to No. 3 in the latest state poll (Feb. 27).

–Beating No. 10 Feather River, 3-1, on Saturday to become the first of California’s 85 teams to win 20 games this season. CSM is now 21-3 after taking the second game with Feather River, 5-4.

NAVARO’S HOMERS PACE SATURDAY SWEEP OF NO.  10 FEATHER RIVER:

Capuchino High grad Jamie Navarro was the star of Saturday’s sweep of Feather River, which came in with an 8-1 record. She hit towering solo home runs out of the park in both games and scored  the walkoff run (on a bases loaded bunt by Mikayla Conlin) in the seventh inning of the nightcap.

Navarro scored four runs in the two games to give her the state season lead with 29. She also had four hits to increase her total to 30, No. 6 in the state. Navarro now has four home runs (No. 12 in the state). Both of Saturday’s homers came with two outs in the bottom of the third inning and also tied the score at 1-1 after Feather River had taken the initial lead in both games.

Michele Pilster got both wins, the second in relief, to up her season record to 13-2 – the most wins by a Northern California player and second in the state. Also a freshman out of Capuchino, Pilster had seven strikeouts to increase her season total to 87 and rank fourth in the state.

Including Friday’s 24-0 win over City College of San Francisco, Navarro scored eight runs and had seven hits in two days.

CSM BEAT STATE’S NO.  1 TEAM: The Bulldogs moved-up from No. 5 to No. 3 in last week’s state poll after giving Siskiyous its first loss of the year and dropping the Eagles (from Weed) to No. 2. That enabled undefeated College of the Canyons (12-0) of Valencia in Southern California to move up from No. 3 to No. 1. Pollsters still left CSM a spot behind Siskiyous, however.

Under the shroud of former Coach Tom Martinez, the Bulldogs dropped their conference opener at De Anza, 3-2, just a few hours after his death on Feb. 21. During the memorial for Martinez on that Friday afternoon (Feb. 24), however, they rebounded to blank No. 1 Siskiyous.

NEXT: CSM (21-3, 2-1) returns to Coast Conference North Division play on Tuesday, hosting Mission (2-9, 0-3) at 3 p.m.

 

CSM  STATE statistic rankings (among more than 1,300 CCC fastpitch athletes):

Pitching:

Michele Pilster (freshman from Capuchino):

13 wins (No. 2 in state, 1 win behind leader, No. 1 in Northern California)

13-2 (.887 W-L pct., 8 or more decisions) (No. 4 in state)

87 strikeouts (No. 4 in state)

87.2 innings pitched (No. 6 in state)

4.07 hits allowed per game (No.  11 in state)

1.43 ERA (No. 14 in state)

As hitter:

3 home runs (No. 21 in state)

5 sacrifices (No. 11 in state)

(She was also ranked in top ten as toughest to strikeout until whiffing for first time against Feather River.)

 

Amelia Shales (freshman from Notre Dame, Belmont):

7 wins (No. 11 in state)

7-1 (.875 W-L pct., 8 or more decisions) (No. 5 in state)

1.95 ERA (No. 23 in state)

7-1 win-loss record also among top

 

Hitting:

Jamie Navarro (freshman from Capuchino):

29 runs (STATE LEADER)

30 hits (No. 6 in state)

3 triples (No. 8 in state)

9 stolen bases (No.  9 in state)

4 home runs (No. 12 in state)

 

Selina Rodriguez (freshman from El Camino):

75 AB (STATE LEADER)

25 hits (No. 19 in state)

 

Lindsay Handy (sophomore from Hillsdale):

74 AB (No. 2 in state behind Rodriguez)

23 RBI (No. 8 in state

8 doubles (No. 9 in state)

20 runs (No. 16 in state)

 

Mikayla Conlin (freshman from Mater Dei ):

67 AB (No. 8 in state)

21 RBI (No.  12 in state)

25 hits (No. 19 in state)

3 home runs (No. 21 in state)

 

Kaylin Stewart (freshman from Hillsdale):

8 stolen bases (No. 17 in state)

 

CSM TEAM FIELDING:

.970 pct. (No. 2 in state, No. 2 in NorCal)

 

Feather River vs San Mateo (3/3/2012) (game 1)

Box score (NCAA)

Feather River – 1 (8-2)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A
No records found for visiting team
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
San Mateo – 3 (20-3)Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A
7 ANNABEL HERTZ………… 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
28 MICHELE PILSTER………. 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
10 JAMIE NAVARRO………… 3 1 1 1 0 0 6 1
20 JACEY McDAID…………. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 KAYLIN STEWART……….. 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 3
3 KATIE TAM……………. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
44 MIKAYLA CONLIN……….. 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
1 KRISTIN PETRINI………. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 SELINA RODRIGUEZ……… 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 VIKA KAFOA…………… 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0
9 LINDSAY HANDY………… 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 3
12 MARY GANAL…………… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 19 3 3 3 2 1 21 9

 

SCORE BY INNINGS

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

R

H

E
Feather River

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

–

1

0
San Mateo

0

0

1

0

0

2

0

–

3

3

0

 

LOB – Feather River ; San Mateo 6. HR – San Mateo: NAVARRO. SAC – San Mateo: KAFOA, STEWART-2.

 

PITCHING
Feather River

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

AB

BF

Julianna Waller (L, 4-1)
San Mateo

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

AB

BF
MICHELE PILSTER (W, 12-2)

7

5

1

1

3

6

29

32

Start: 12:00 PM

Feather River vs San Mateo (3/3/2012) (game 2)

Box score (NCAA)

Feather River – 4 (8-3) 

 

 

 

 

No records found for visiting team
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
San Mateo – 5 (21-3)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A
7 ANNABEL HERTZ………… 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
17 AMELIA SHALES………… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
28 MICHELE PILSTER………. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
10 JAMIE NAVARRO………… 3 3 3 1 1 0 1 0
2 KAYLIN STEWART……….. 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
3 KATIE TAM……………. 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
44 MIKAYLA CONLIN……….. 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
1 KRISTIN PETRINI………. 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
24 SELINA RODRIGUEZ……… 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
11 VIKA KAFOA…………… 3 1 0 2 1 0 7 0
9 LINDSAY HANDY………… 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
12 MARY GANAL…………… 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 6 5 4 3 4 21 12

 

SCORE BY INNINGS

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

R

H

E
Feather River

0

0

1

0

0

1

2

–

4

0
San Mateo

0

0

1

1

1

0

2

–

5

5

2

 

E – San Mateo: KAFOA-2. LOB – Feather River ; San Mateo 7. HR – San Mateo: NAVARRO. SB – San Mateo: NAVARRO-3, STEWART, RODRIGUEZ.

 

PITCHING
Feather River

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

AB

BF

Melissa Smith

Julianna Waller (L, 4-2)
San Mateo

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

AB

BF
AMELIA SHALES (7-1)

5.1

9

2

2

2

2

26

28
MICHELE PILSTER (W, 13-2)

1.2

2

2

1

1

1

8

9

Start: 2:00 PM

San Mateo vs San Francisco (3/2/2012)

Box score (NCAA)

San Mateo – 24 (19-3) (2-1)

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A
7 ANNABEL HERTZ………… 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
17 AMELIA SHALES………… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
4 ASHLEY MILLER………… 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 JAMIE NAVARRO………… 6 4 3 2 0 0 9 0
20 JACEY McDAID…………. 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
2 KAYLIN STEWART……….. 5 3 2 3 0 0 0 0
3 KATIE TAM……………. 5 1 1 2 0 1 0 0
44 MIKAYLA CONLIN……….. 5 4 5 4 0 0 1 0
24 SELINA RODRIGUEZ……… 6 3 4 2 0 0 0 1
11 VIKA KAFOA…………… 4 4 2 1 1 0 5 0
9 LINDSAY HANDY………… 4 3 3 5 0 0 0 0
12 MARY GANAL…………… 4 1 2 2 1 0 0 0
Totals 44 24 24 23 2 1 15 3
San Francisco – 0 (0-13) (0-4) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A
No records found for visiting team
Totals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

 

SCORE BY INNINGS

1

2

3

4

5

R

H

E
San Mateo

5

4

12

0

3

–

24

24

0
San Francisco

0

0

0

0

0

–

0

0

 

LOB – San Mateo 8; San Francisco . 2B – San Mateo: KAFOA, GANAL, STEWART, TAM, CONLIN. 3B – San Mateo: KAFOA, HANDY-2, NAVARRO. SAC – San Mateo: HANDY. SB – San Mateo: NAVARRO-2.

 

PITCHING
San Mateo

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

AB

BF
AMELIA SHALES (W, 7-1)

3

1

0

0

0

4

10

10
ASHLEY MILLER

2

1

0

0

0

5

7

7
San Francisco

IP

H

R

ER

BB

SO

AB

BF