STANFORD, Calif. – Kylie Sorenson launched her team-leading eighth home run of the season and Carolyn Lee tossed her 12th complete game, but No. 17 Arizona took game one of a Pac-12 series with the Cardinal, 5-3, at Smith Family Stadium on Friday night.
Sorenson's fifth-inning bomb was the game's only extra-base hit. Arizona (29-12, 6-4 Pac-12) pricked Lee for 11 singles, scoring twice in the first and once each in the second, third and sixth.
The Cardinal (13-21, 0-10 Pac-12) was down 3-0 in the second when Victoria Molina led the inning off with a walk and Lauren Wegner followed with a single to put runners on first and second with nobody out. Arden Pettit advanced both with a groundout to second before Savannah Schulze knocked one off the foot of Arizona's first baseman. Joelle Krist's kick allowed Molina and Wegner to cross the plate and pulled Stanford within one.
The Wildcats tacked on another in the third on a sacrifice fly in foul territory down the line in right. Lee locked in in the fourth, inducing an Alexis Dotson groundout with the bases loaded to end the frame. Stanford's freshman hurler needed just 10 pitches to set Arizona down in order in the fifth.
Sorenson looked at a ball before she tagged Arizona's Danielle O'Toole with one out in the fifth, the 13th home run surrendered by the Wildcats' lefty this season.
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A Tamara Statman two-out, RBI single pushed Arizona's advantage back to two in the top of the sixth. It would have been more if not for a diving stop up the middle from Sorenson off the bat of Katiyana Mauga.
Game two of the series is at 5 p.m. tomorrow and will be televised on Pac-12 Bay Area and Pac-12 Arizona with Krista Blunk and Tammy Blackburn on the call.