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percentage. Defenders like junior Karen Nesbitt, sophomore Catherine Swanson and seniors Eleanor Foote and Charity Fluharty have helped to ease the pressure on Read. Stanford has the appropriate credentials on display for the NCAA committee. Now all it has to do is win the MPSF tournament. Baseball Stanford (10-5, 21-14) seemed to be in trouble two weeks ago after losing a Pac-10 series to Oregon and
coming perilously close to slipping under the .500 mark overall. An eight-game winning streak, since snapped in Monday night’s 9-3 loss at Santa Clara, breathed new life into the No. 22 Cardinal as it heads to Washington (alma mater of Tim Lincecum) for an important conference series beginning Friday night at 6 p.m. in Seattle. Saturday night’s 6:30 p.m. game is set for Safeco Field as part of a day-night doubleheader with the Seattle Mariners. Stanford’s recent streak of success can be traced to its run production, though a resurgent left-hander Brett Mooneyham is also part of the equation.
Jonathan Kaskow and Tyler Gaffney are in the forefront of the improved run production. Kaskow, whose season average is a team-best .469, is hitting .559 over his past 11 games. Gaffney upped his average to .345 after he ignited his aluminum bat to the tune of .611 over the past four games. He has 11 hits in his last 18 at bats, scored six runs and driven in two. In his previous eight games Gaffney was 8-for-35 (.211) with six runs scored and one RBI. Stephen Piscotty, Colin Walsh and Menlo School grad Kenny Diekroeger have also used the recent winning streak to improve their batting averages. Diekroeger, named the Pac-10
Player of the Week on Monday, owns a .378 average (17-for-45) over his past 11 games. He’s added 10 RBI to his total of 27 over that span. Stanford enters the weekend in second place, a game behind Arizona State in a tightly-packed conference race. Softball Until junior pitcher Ashley Chinn shut down San Jose State, 4-1, Tuesday night, Stanford had trouble stopping anybody over a sevengame losing streak that began when freshman hurler Teagan Gerhart began experiencing soreness in her right arm.
Gerhart won her 22nd game in 26 decisions when she beat Oregon State, 1-0, on April 10. She had a 1.37 ERA afterward. Stanford pitchers were 0-7 with an 8.79 ERA from April 11 until Chinn’s gem, in which she did not allow an earned run. The Cardinal was outscored 55-20 during its worst losing streak in years. Gerhart allowed 10 runs over her next 8 1/3 innings before she was shut down. Stanford (4-8, 31-12) remains in good shape for the postseason and can improve its position in the Pac10 conference during a visit from Arizona State (6-6, 37-10), in town for a three-game set beginning Friday at 7 p.m. N
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