LAS VEGAS – The Santa Clara softball team dropped both their games on the second day of the UNLV Rebel Classic on Saturday, falling to Tulsa 8-1 and to UNLV 6-5 in extra innings. 

GAME 1: Tulsa 8 - Santa Clara 1

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• Tulsa pitcher Maura Moore allowed just one run in a complete game effort while the offense generated eight runs on 13 hits to lift the Golden Hurricane to an 8-1 victory over Santa Clara.  For Moore, it was her fourth win of the season scattering seven hits, two walks and striking out five. 
• Tulsa (8-5) was in command of the game from the get-go, scoring three runs in the second inning off of Bronco starter Hazyl Gray to take a 3-0 lead.
• Santa Clara (6-7) answered with a run in the third on Marie Martorella's RBI single but that is as close as they would get. 
• The Golden Hurricane added a pair of runs in the fourth on an RBI triple by Kennedy Cramer that knocked Gray out of the game and came home on Maci Cole's hit.  They tacked on three more runs in the sixth on five hits against Bronco reliever Alaina Valdez.
• Cramer and Cole each had three hits from the bottom of the lineup as five Tulsa hitters had multi-hit games.  Cole also had a game-high three RBIs. 
• While Gray (0-4) struggled in the circle, giving up five runs over 3 1/3 innings, she went 2-for-3 at the plate. 

GAME 2: UNLV 6 - Santa Clara 5 (8)

HOW IT HAPPENED:

• UNLV strung together three-straight singles in the eighth inning including the walk-off hit by Ellie Zellien to defeat Santa Clara 6-5. 
• Playing under the international tie-break rule where a runner was placed on second to start the extra inning, Broncos catcher Taryn Clements back-picked Alexys Herrera to eliminate the threat.  However, the Rebels (7-5) were undaunted as three consecutive hits followed against Broncos reliever Avery Seva plate the game winner.
• The game was a seesaw affair with five lead changes.  Ariana Martinez led off the bottom of the first with a home run.  The Broncos (6-8) took the lead in the top of the third on Hazyl Gray's RBI triple but the Rebels answered right back when Jesse Farrell had a bases clearing double to put them back up 4-3 in the home half of the inning.
• In the sixth, SCU retook the lead 5-4 when Leiora Davidson drew a bases loaded walk, followed by a sacrifice fly RBI by Cairah Curran.  But the pesky Rebels answered once again.  Following a walk and a double, pinch-hitter Rylei Trujillo's sacrifice fly knotted the game up at 5-all. 
• Alanna Thiede pitched the final five innings to pick up her fourth win of the season while Seva suffered the loss. 

• Santa Clara face Southern Utah on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. PT.