BYU woke up a sleeping giant.
The Cougars grabbed the lead with a solo homer in the third, then felt the full wrath of Arizona’s offense. The Wildcats roared back with eight runs in the bottom of the frame, fueling an 11-3 win and their eighth mercy-rule victory in nine games.
Arizona also run-ruled BYU 12-0 on Friday, but that time they scored all their runs in the first inning.
“That’s softball,” head coach Mike Candrea. “You can’t expect to score 12 runs every first inning. Sometimes we’re gonna have games like that.”
That Arizona got off to a slow start Saturday shouldn’t have been too surprising.