Tigers softball splits on opening day
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (Feb. 07, 2010) – It was a perfect day for a ball game. Skies were blue, the air was crisp and the sun was shinning down on Bell Field as Occidental College took on Patten University in their 2010 season opener. The Tigers barely lost game one, 6-5, but used an impressive comeback in the second to win 4-3 and earn an opening day split.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Feb. 5, 2010) – A storm traveling through Southern California has forced the Occidental College softball team to postpone their season opener while the women’s tennis match against UC Riverside scheduled for Saturday has been canceled.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Feb. 4, 2010) – One year after tying the school record for most wins in a season, while breaking a pair of individual season records, the Tigers return to the diamond enthused in 2010 with a renewed sense of accomplishment. Eleven student-athletes will suit up again this spring, coupled with seven incoming athletes, to make the squad the largest it has been in recent history. Occidental College softball strives to improve on the success the program has regained over the last couple of years.
LOS ANGELES Calif. (May 5, 2009) – Occidental College’s junior backstop Alyssa Escalante earned Second Team All-SCIAC honors for the second time of her career following the Tigers’ successful spring.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 25, 2009) – On the final day of the season, in the final game of the spring, the Occidental College Tigers’ softball team held off the University of La Verne to win 6-4 and split with the second place Leopards.
CLAREMONT, Calif. (April 24, 2009) - Occidental softball dropped a pair of Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference games to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (26-10, 15-7 SCIAC) on the road, 8-0 and 7-3.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Apr. 7, 2009) – On Sat. Feb. 14 sophomore Tasha Serna-Gallegos pulled on her black and orange Occidental College softball uniform for the first time in her collegiate career. Unlike most first year student-athletes, today was special for the second baseman in so many ways, since the story of her life is anything but ordinary. As a young teenager she faced cancer. A once active, athletic young student was forced to battle for her life, undergoing nearly three and a half years of treatment. Today, five plus years later, she is cancer-free and playing the sport she loves at the collegiate level.
