The Cal softball team’s season ended the same way it began — with a fine-tuned pitching performance from Jolene Henderson, a dreadful offensive game and a heartbreaking loss. On Feb. 8, when Cal was regarded as one of the best teams in the nation, it fell to upstart Kentucky, 3-1, Read More…
Earlier this season, the Cal softball team was riding high, putting together 22-game win streak. As the regular season comes to an end, the Bears find themselves sitting fourth in the Pac-12, barely holding on to its .500 conference record. It’s amazing how much of a difference one player makes. Read More…
In the midst of playing seven games in eight days, the Cal softball team finally looked human on Wednesday afternoon. After winning the first two games of a three-game series against the No. 19 Arizona Wildcats, the No. 5 Bears were dominated throughout all seven innings in the final game Read More…
Cal softball’s 22-game win streak, its perfect record at home and its 27-3 record in the past few weeks have all been in anticipation of the next few weeks of conference play. Now that the nonconference schedule is over, the Bears are heading into their toughest stretch of the season. Read More…
Jolene Henderson is not only Cal softball’s leader and a star player when she steps on the mound; she is also Cal history in the making. With the Bears’ 4-1 win over Utah on Sunday at Levine-Fricke Field, Henderson pitched her way to the record books, passing Michele Granger’s all-time Read More…
Four consecutive tournaments, four weekends and 22 straight games. That’s how long Cal softball’s winning streak lasted before Syracuse snapped its streak, beating Cal, 8-1, in the Chevron Spring Fling in Honolulu on Saturday. This was the Bears’ third loss of the season since losing to Kentucky and Florida in Read More…
All it took was one pitch for the Cal softball team to showcase its power. In the first home game of the season against the Pacific Tigers, Cheyenne Cordes sent the first pitch in the bottom of the first inning sailing over the left-field fence. The Bears (16-2) would go Read More…
Twenty-eight days have come and gone since the Cal softball team last lost a game, when the Bears were downed by Florida on Feb. 8th. In that span, Cal has won 14 straight games. “After that first weekend, we realized how much we sat back and waited,” said All-American pitcher Read More…
What a difference a week can make. Just seven days ago, the Cal softball team hoped to extend its winning streak to three games. Starting this weekend, the 7-2 Bears look to push that same streak to seven straight wins. Making the short trek to Palm Springs, Calif., the No. Read More…
Coming one step short to a championship title last season in a disappointing loss to Alabama in the Women’s College World Series, those of the Cal softball team, especially the veterans, ended last season with a bitter taste in their mouths. For the Bears this season, the path to the Read More…