TEMPE – The No. 21 Arizona State softball team fell to No. 18 Arizona, 2-0, in the first Pac-12 game of the season on Friday at Farrington Stadium.
In a game more attuned to 1990’s softball and the dominant pitching that encapsulated the era, Kelsey Kessler and Arizona’s Danielle O’Toole went head-to-head in a epic pitching duel that ended with neither allowing a single earned run.
Kessler (8-5) unfortunately came out on the unlucky end of things as Joelle Krist’s two-out, two-run home run in the top of the seventh proved to be the difference in a inning that should have ended on the previous at-bat if not for an untimely infield error.