SEATTLE – No. 8 Washington took game one of the series, 6-5, against No. 14 UCLA on Friday night at Husky Softball Stadium. The Huskies improve to 21-4 and 5-2 in Pac-12 play on the season.
Ruby Meylan got the start and tossed three innings, allowing three runs on seven hits with four strikeouts. Sidne Peters (3-0) came on in relief to pick up her third win of the season with a pair of strikeouts.
Brooke Nelson entered with the bases loaded in the sixth. Lindsay Lopez earned her first save of the season after coming in with two outs in the seventh. The save moves Lopez into the Top 10 in career saves. She has four during her time as a Husky.
The Huskies jumped out to a 4-0 after the first, all runs coming with two outs. Rylee Holtorf led off the game with a four-pitch walk. Alana Johnson brought in Holtorf with her team-leading seventh home run of the season on the first pitch she saw. Four straight hits from Kinsey Fiedler, Olivia Johnson, Nelson and Sydney Stewart brought in two more runs.
UCLA cut the lead down to three on an RBI double by Thessa Malau’ulu in the second.
The game entered a 44 minute weather delay in the bottom of the second.
The Bruins continued to cut into the Washington lead with a two-run home run by Sharlize Palacios to make it a 4-3 ballgame after three.
The Huskies responded in the bottom half of the inning. Fiedler notched her second hit to leadoff and…
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