May 21, 2007

POINT LOMA DEFEATS CALIFORNIA BAPTIST 5-2
Sea Lions Advance to Play on Tuesday

Decatur, Ala. - From the 2007 NAIA National Softball Championship at Wilson Morgan Park in Decatur, Alabama, Point Loma Nazarene University (Calif.) (44-10) defeated California Baptist University (57-4) 5-0 to advance in the winner's bracket and will play another day in the championship.

For Point Loma junior Amanda Addie went 4-for-4 on the day with one run scored and one RBI. Randi Mead and Melissa Gomez added two hits each for the Sea Lions who landed 10 hits as a team.  Addie led Point Loma entering the championship with a .437 batting average, two home runs and 22 RBI.  Gomez improved her pitching record to 6-4 on the season completing seven innings with two earned runs and three strikeouts.

California Baptist scattered only three hits among three different Lancer batters.  Candice Thomas dropped her record to 30-2 on the season pitching seven complete innings allowing three earned runs in the contest.  Thomas entered the tournament with a 28-1 record with a 1.24 earned run average.

Point Loma advances to play at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday in the winner's bracket against the winner of Simon Fraser University (B.C.)/Oklahoma City University contest.  California Baptist drops into the loser's bracket and will face the winner of Trevecca Nazarene University (Tenn.) and Houston Baptist University (Texas).

For more information on the 2007 NAIA Softball National Championship, please visit www.naia.org.