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5
Winner Fort Lewis College FLC 1-2
2
Vangaurd VUSOFT25 0-3
Winner
Fort Lewis College FLC
1-2
5
Final
2
Vangaurd VUSOFT25
0-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Fort Lewis College FLC 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 5 9 1
Vangaurd VUSOFT25 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 2

W: Gavigan, Addison (1-0) L: Stephens, Summer (0-1)

8
Winner CSU Dominguez Hills CSDH 3-1
4
Fort Lewis College FLC 1-3
Winner
CSU Dominguez Hills CSDH
3-1
8
Final
4
Fort Lewis College FLC
1-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
CSU Dominguez Hills CSDH 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 8 7 0
Fort Lewis College FLC 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 4 10 6

W: GARCIA, Lillianna (2-0) L: Padilla, Chloe (0-1)

Cali Niccum vs. Dominican
Hayden Mangan, Fort Lewis Athletic Communications
Cali Niccum (00) squares up a pitch against the Penguins at OC Great Park (Jan. 31, 2025)

Game Recap: Softball | | Hayden Mangan, Assistant AD-Communications & Fan Engagement

Gavigan guides Fort Lewis to first win, Skyhawks fall to No. 15 Toros in nine-inning thriller

Freshman pitchers set the tone for 2025

IRVINE, Calif. – After a rocky start on day one of the 2025 Concordia Kickoff Classic at OC Great Park, the Fort Lewis softball team (1-3) completely flipped the script on day two, handling Vanguard (Calif.) (1-3) 5-2 in its first victory of the season before pushing No. 15 Cal State Dominguez Hills (3-1) through nine innings before falling to the Toros 8-4.
 
Fort Lewis' biggest hurdle continued to be its own defense, committing seven errors across the afternoon, including six in the nightcap with CSUDH, to bring its season total to 13 and team fielding percentage to .920.
 
On the offensive side, Alex Tenorio and Rhiannon Lister each supplied three-hit afternoons, including one walk, a triple, and a double for Tenorio, alongside a pair of doubles for Lister. Despite the Skyhawks' .262 team average through four games, which ranks seventh among Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference teams, FLC is consistently putting the ball in play, striking out just 15 times in its 122 total at-bats.
 
Fort Lewis 5, Vanguard 2
Following a quiet pair of innings to kick off the morning, the Skyhawks burst into action in the top of the fourth. Natalie Rodman landed a bunt single, forcing an errant throw by the third baseman to allow Mykel Torres to score. Skyler Dietz then belted a triple off the right-field wall, plating the two, before coming around to score herself on an error by the shortstop the following at-bat.
 
Vanguard responded, using a walk and an error to move a pair of runners over before plating a single run on a single back through the middle off the bat of Kamryn Walker. The Lions' only other run came in the fifth inning when VU strung together a pair of singles followed by a double from Mia Hernandez. Alyssa Fockler, for good measure, gave FLC one final insurance run in the top of the seventh with a solo blast that just cleared the 220' sign on the top of the left-center field fence.
 
Freshman Addison Gavigan (1-0) was more than effective in her collegiate debut, scattering seven hits across seven innings while allowing just one earned run while striking out two and walking one en route to her first career win. Summer Stephens took the loss, surrendering nine hits, four earned runs, and two walks, with one strikeout and one wild pitch.
 
No. 15 CSU Dominguez Hills 8, Fort Lewis 4 (9 Inn.)
Despite taking the loss in her collegiate debut, freshman Chloe Padilla was in large part the reason Fort Lewis managed to take the No. 15 Toros, who fell to the eventual national runners-up in last season's West Region Super Regional, to nine innings of play. Padilla, in 146 pitches across 8.1 innings of work, gave up just seven hits, two earned runs, and four walks while striking out five: the most by. Skyhawk this season.
 
CSU Dominguez Hills jumped on the board in the second with a solo home run from Lillianna Garcia, but Fort Lewis later evened the score in the bottom of the fourth inning thanks to back-to-back doubles from Lister and Cali Niccum. After the Toros took the lead again in the top of the fifth, the Skyhawks equalized once more in the bottom of the sixth on a double from Lister after Skyler Dietz singled and advanced on a sacrifice bunt from Briana Jorgensen.
 
The top-ranked Toros opened the extra innings by taking an early 3-2 advantage and applying the pressure, but Fort Lewis got scrappy, manufacturing the tying run on a sacrifice fly from Jorgensen after a Tenorio single moved Natalie Rodman, who opened the inning at second base, to third. CSU Dominguez Hills finally opened the floodgates in the ninth, scoring five runs to ultimately outlast the Skyhawks.
 
Notes
-Fort Lewis leads Vanguard University (California) 1-0 in the all-time series, and California State University, Dominguez Hills, 0-2 in the all-time series with both losses occurring at neutral sites.
-Through the first two days of the season, the Skyhawks lead the RMAC with a 2.10 team earned run average.
-Addison Gavigan earned her first collegiate win in her collegiate debut.
-Chloe Padilla struck out five, which is the most by a Skyhawks pitcher this season.
-Alyssa Fockler now owns the only long ball for FLC thus far.
-Rhiannon Lister leads the roster with three doubles.
 
Up Next
Fort Lewis will close out the Concordia Kickoff Classic tomorrow at Noon against host institution Concordia Irvine (3-1) at the OC Great Park Stadium. The game will be live-streamed pay-per-view on the PacWest Network, or fans can also follow along with live statistics courtesy of CUI Athletics.
 
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