Alyse Harris threw a six-hitter and Tara Crawford was 3-3 with two RBIs on Saturday, leading SBCC past WSC rival Oxnard 7-2 in the quarterfinals of the Golden West Invitational at Huntington Beach.
The 12-team tourney, in its 35th year, is the oldest community college softball event in America.
Santa Barbara (5-7) will meet another WSC Gold team, Moorpark, in the semifinals on Sunday at 10 a.m. The final is slated for noon.
Harris, a freshman from Denver, Colo., gave up two runs on six hits. She struck out seven and didn’t walk a batter.
Lauren Larabell was 2-4 with two stolen bases for the Vaqueros. Natalie Orosco had a two-run single in the third. Mariah Coyazo and Crawford delivered RBI singles in the fifth, boosting the lead to 5-0.
The Vaqueros had 11 hits with seven batters getting at least one.
SBCC .……. 003 021 1 — 7 11 2
Oxnard …… 000 020 0 — 2 6 3
Harris and Larabell; Bacon and Mochizuki. W–Harris 3-6. L–Bacon.
2B–O: Shaw.
