After getting a win and a tie last Saturday, the Reedley College softball team is scheduled to face more tough competition on Friday at home.

The 6-1-1 Tigers will face the state's third ranked team (and ranked second in Northern California) College of San Mateo at 10 am before a scheduled 2 pm matchup with Southern California's ninth ranked team, the 8-3 Bakersfield College Renegades. At this writing, there is a chance that game times may be changed slightly to make sure all three games on Friday are completed. San Mateo is scheduled to face Bakersfield at noon.

Last Saturday, darkness forced officials to call the matchup between fifth ranked Monterey Peninsula after 10 innings of play and a 2-2 tie.

Reedley came inches away from winning Saturday's nightcap. With Liliana Felix at third base with two out, Monterey second baseman Nicole Sayre made a leaping catch of Hunter Young's line drive to end the game.

Reedley's Julia Jimenez drove in Tiger runs (both scored by Jessica Vegely) in the first and third innings with a single and a ground out. Monterey pitcher Sally Bowles retired 16 batters in a row before a Mariah Patterson single to right in the eighth.

Tiger pitcher Emily Grimbeby, who threw 134 pitches in Reedley's 5-1 win over Santa Rosa Junior College in the first game, took over for starting pitcher Lauren Costa with one out and the bases loaded in the sixth and got out of the jam.

In the win over Santa Rosa, Noni Villarreal and Patterson both had two hits for Reedley in a nine-hit attack.

By Will Goldbeck