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From LBSU reports<\/span><\/p>\n Long Beach State’s softball team, after going winless in the first day of play, fared quite a bit better in the second day of the Cathedral City Kickoff—Saturday evening’s game against Wisconsin (0-3) was a 7-0 win for the Beach. <\/span>Brooke Turner went the distance, striking out eight. <\/span>This is Turner’s 18th<\/sup> career shutout, and, just a few games into her sophomore season, she now stands just two shy of breaking into LBSU’s all-time top 10.<\/p>\n The 49er bats came alive as three different players homered in the game. Junior transfer Jodi Nakawatase connected for her first long ball in a Long Beach State uniform, finishing the evening with a 2-for-2 performance at the plate, while adding a pair of RBIs. Senior Jennifer Griffin and junior Kristen Pocock also tallied a home run against the Badgers.<\/p>\n Nakawatase broke a scoreless tie in the top of the third inning with a solo shot. The 49ers put two more runs on the board in the fourth as senior Jonae Perez started a two-out rally with an infield single. Pocock then sent the ball over the right field fence, putting LBSU up 3-0. Griffin followed with a solo home run in the fifth.<\/p>\n The Beach added three more runs over the final two innings. Both Nakawatase and Griffin connected for an RBI double, while junior transfer Brandy Reyes plated senior Danielle Linke with a sacrifice fly to left field.<\/p>\n Long Beach State’s second game of the night against Illinois was canceled due to inclement weather. The 49ers, now 1-2 on the season, are slated to close out the tournament with a single game against Liberty at 11 a.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The second day of the Cathedral City Kickoff brings the 49ers to a 1-2 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}