May 2, 1998

TUSCON, Ariz. The University of Arizona showed Stanford's softball team why the Wildcats are the nations top-ranked team, taking two from the Cardinal on Sunday. The first game was a 10-3 drubbing, the second an 8-0 blanking. The losses drops the ninth-ranked Cardinal to 35-16, 13-11 in the Pac 10. The Wildcats omprove to 55-3, 21-1 in conference play.

Kellie Wiginton went 3-for-3 for the Cardinal, driving in a run.Pitcher Becky Blevins could have had some of the same and perhaps changed the course of the game, but in the fifth, an apparent home run was instead ruled a single and an RBI when she was called out for overrunning the preceding runer. Poring salt into the wound was the fact that Blevins eventually took the loss.It was that kind of day for the Cardinal, who had two errors.

Wildcat Katie Swan was 1-for-2, but she made her one count with a first inning grand slam, her third home run of the year. It was all down hill after that, as eight Wildcatts got hits, four had two or more. The second game was more of the same. The Wildcats used a 16-hit attack in peeling apart the Cardinal, versus Stanford's three hit debacle. This time it was Wildcat short stop Nancy Evans going deep on the Cardinal, a three run blast in the fourth that erased any Cardinal dreams of coming back from a 4-0 deficit. Mary Crouch took the loss for the Cardinal. Stanford returns to action on Tuesday against San Jose State. Game time is set for 6:00 p.m.