STANFORD, Calif. – Maddy Dwyer hit the rare exacta of earning both the win and save Saturday in Stanford's 7-3 nonconference win over Cal Poly at Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium. Dwyer hurled 6.1 frames for the Cardinal, scattering five hits without allowing a run to pick up her fifth win and first save.
Dwyer (5-4) tossed the first six innings before stepping aside for relief pitcher Carolyn Lee, who allowed three Cal Poly (6-7) runs in the seventh. With two outs and two runners on base, Dwyer returned to the circle and issued her only walk of the game. She induced a Megan Nordin grounder to end the game and put the finishing touches on Stanford's third straight win.
Stanford (9-6) produced consecutive home wins for the first time in nearly a calendar year, and aims for four straight wins for the first time since the start of the 2017 campaign when it faces Cal Poly on Sunday at 11 a.m. PT. That game will be followed by a 1:30 p.m. matchup with Santa Clara to conclude the three-day Stanford Invitational. Live video and stats will be available at GoStanford.com.
Four Stanford players had multi-hit efforts, led by Kristina Inouye's 3-for-3 effort. Alyssa Horeczko and Montana Dixon had two hits apiece, with each chipping in two runs.
Dixon had a team-best three RBI, the first coming in the opening stanza on a triple to right-center that plated Horeczko. Arden Petti's single from the cleanup spot brought home Dixon.
Dixon's RBI-double in the fourth padded Stanford's lead, 4-0.
Hannah Howell added two hits, and Lauren Wegner drove in two scores with a sixth-inning single to left as part of a three-run Cardinal outburst to give the home team a 7-0 advantage.
Four of Stanford's 12 hits came in the sixth.
Dakota Casper (1-3) and Shelby Jeffries split time in the circle for Cal Poly, the latter permitting five earned runs on nine hits.
Noellah Ramos had two of Cal Poly's eight hits.
The Mustangs were blanked until the top of the seventh until three hits helped produce as many runs to foil Stanford's shutout bid.
The two teams combined to strand 19 runners.
