Posted: Mar 25, 2025
Comets’ bats ride high in sweep of IVC
Palomar
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23
Imperial Valley
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0
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | R | H | E | |
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Palomar | 10 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 23 | 24 | 0 |
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Imperial Valley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
IMPERIAL, CA (3/25/2025) – Two days after returning home from a 430-mile round-trip road trip north to Bakersfield, the Palomar College softball squad continued its recent journeys with a 290-mile trek east to the Imperial Valley and back.
The bats continued to go along for the ride.
The state's No. 2-ranked team swept Imperial Valley College, 17-0 and 21-0, to maintain first place in the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference standings with a 7-0 record. After collecting a combined 29 hits during a weekend two-game sweep of Bakersfield College, the Comets amassed 41 hits Tuesday in their doubleheader sweep of IVC.
Palomar scored five runs in the top of the first inning of Game 1 and never looked back, adding four in the second and three in the third while collecting 17 hits in the five-inning contest.
Sophomore third baseman Breanna Lutz, freshman first baseman Alexis Huey and freshman center fielder Gisele Gonzalez all had three hits apiece for the visitors, including multiple extra-base hits. Lutz and Huey each had a triple and a double, and Gonzalez provided a pair of doubles and five runs batted in.
Maddie Bedolla pitched three scoreless innings for the win. The sophomore left-hander allowed no hits with two walks and seven strikeouts while keeping her season record unblemished at 11-0. Freshman right-hander Kiara Flaviani pitched two scoreless innings in relief, allowing one hit with one walk and two strikeouts.
The only hit for IVC (6-17, 3-3) was a leadoff single to start the bottom of the fifth.
Sophomore right-hander Nevaeh Haywood repeated Bedolla's feat in Game 2 and then some by pitching three prefect innings. Haywood won her 10th game of the season against two losses, striking out the side in the third inning.
Freshman right-hander Hailey White pitched two scoreless innings in relief to polish off Palomar's 12th shutout of the season. She allowed two hits.
The Comets batted around for 10 first-inning runs, with two of those coming on freshman designated player Lauren Doepping's fourth home run of the season. Palomar finished with 24 hits in the nightcap, with Doepping capping her day with three hits and three RBIs.
Doepping's replacement at DP, sophomore Kayla Visser, also drove in three runs with two hits. Lutz, sophomore right fielder Julianna Rocha and sophomore second baseman Aubrey Thorne all had three hits apiece for the winners, who improved to 21-2 overall and extended the state's longest current win streak to 17 games.
The Comets continue conference play March 27 at San Diego City before returning home March 29 for a non-conference doubleheader against No. 4-ranked Cypress, with the first pitch for Game 1 slated for 1 p.m.