Team Ricketts, Garcia win ahead of AUSL All-Star Cup finale

Team Ricketts 6, Team Coffel 1

Bella Dayton started the scoring, showing off her power. She homered to open the third inning. After a double and a walk, Team Coffel made the pitching change from Emma Lemley to Payton Gottshall. Team Ricketts kept producing. Bubba Nickels Camarena singled in another run. The third run of the inning came via a sacrifice fly by Sharlize Palacios.

Erin Coffel helped her team out by responding with a two-out triple that went into the right field corner to drive in a run. That was essentially all the offense for Team Coffel. Georgia Corrick pitched a complete game gem. The former USF All-American only allowed the one run on three hits, while striking out six in the win.

Anissa Urtez, in her final weekend of professional softball, put the nail in the coffin. She belted a riseball from Montana Fouts for a three-run homer in the sixth.

Team Garcia 6, Team Kowalik 1

Rachel Garcia did all that she could to give herself a chance to win the AUSL All-Star Cup title on Sunday. The two-way star lined a three-run homer to left field in the first inning off of Taylor McQuillin.

In the second and third innings, Team Kowalik loaded the bases against Sam Landry and Emiley Kennedy, and each time, Garcia called upon herself to get her team out of the jam. She successfully did so to keep Team Kowalik off the board.

Garcia stayed in the game to start the fourth, and Team Kowalik finally scratched a run across the board. They loaded the bases again, and this time Kayla Kowalik lifted a sacrifice fly to get a run and win her team 10 inning points, earning an RBI for her stat points. Despite the loss, that proves to be a big moment as Kowalik and Garcia top the leaderboard heading into Sunday’s finale.

Garcia ended up throwing 4.2 innings, allowing one run on two hits and striking out six batters. She also had two hits, scoring a run in the sixth inning on a single from Dejah Mulipola.

Team Garcia also scored a pair of runs in the third. Taylor Edwards doubled in a run and Ana Gold was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to secure another run.

The 70 win points and 50 total inning points are a huge bonus for Garcia, who came into the day 400-plus points behind Kowalik on the leaderboard.

AUSL Leaderboard

1. Kayla Kowalik – 1540 points
2. Rachel Garcia – 1354 Points
3. Danieca Coffey – 1120 points
4. Keilani Ricketts – 1056 points
5. Erin Coffel – 1052 points

Next up for AUSL All-Star Cup

AUSL All-Star Cup concludes on Sunday. Team Ricketts and Team Garcia start the day at 2:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+. Team Kowalik faces Team Coffel on ESPNU, with a champion crowned after that.

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