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Team Coffey, Kowalik start AUSL All-Star Cup Series Three with wins

Screenshot 2024-07-31 at 7.46.34 PMby: Brady Vernon08/25/25BradyVernon
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Team Coffey and Team Kowalik started off Series Three in Rosemont with wins as Rachel Garcia and Jessie Warren moved up the leaderboard.

Team Coffey 4, Team Ricketts 2

The team’s starting catchers did the damage early. Rachel Garcia, who started in the circle for Team Coffey, led off the second inning with a double against Montana Fouts. Ana Gold followed with her own double to net the game’s first run. Dejah Mulipola then blasted off to extend the lead to three.

Fouts never really found her footing. She allowed two more singles and a walk to load the bases. Luckily for her, Sierra Romero lined right into a double play with the bases loaded.

Garcia took time to settle in herself. She was able to escape a first-inning jam when she gave up a pair of hits. However, she couldn’t avoid the bat of Sharlize Palacios. After an error, Palacios barreled a riseball for her own two-run homer in the bottom half of the second. Nevertheless, Team Coffey still won the inning.

Garcia ended up going the distance, only allowing the two runs in the second. Palacios had a chance to do more damage in the sixth with two runners on, but got too much under a ball that flitered with the warning track. Garcia, who was still Top 10 on the leaderboard despite missing Series Two, struck out six and allowed seven hits, earning top MVP honors.

Keilani Ricketts helped settle things down for her team, coming on in relief in the fourth. While she allowed a hit to Danielle Gibson Whorton that scored Danieca Coffey (Aliyah Binford was responible for the run), she tossed four scoreless innings and retired 10 straight batters after surrerending the single to Gibson Whorton.

Team Coffey earned a major bump, taking all 60 inning points and the 70 win points.

Team Kowalik 13, Team Netz 5

Kayla Kowalik continues to roll, and her former college teammate helped her team to victory on Sunday. Team Kowalik jumped on Team Netz starter Lexi Kilfoyl from the jump. After she allowed a lead-off walk to Amanda Lorenz, Kowalik smoked a ball off the wall, allowing Lorenz to score from first.

Kilfoyl simply didn’t have her command. She walked two more batters and allowed a single in the second before walking Lorenz again to surrender a run. Devyn Netz called her own number to the circle but it didn’t go much better. Kowalik singled in the go-ahead run. Erin Coffel blasted a grand slam to put the cap on the six-run frame.

It didn’t really matter who Team Netz put in the circle. Jessie Warren smashed another grand slam against Taylor McQuillin. The former Florida State star hit another home run against Megan Faraimo in the sixth.

Korbe Otis tacked on another run in the seventh.

Georgia Corrick didn’t have her best day in the circle either, especially against Tiare Jennings. The former Oklahoma star kept her bat hot from the World Games, hitting a two-run homer in the first to give Team Netz the inning win points. She then lined a two-out double into the gap to plate another run in the third.

Sydney McKinney had a two-run, two-out doube in the fourth. Corrick would exit for Alana Vawter in the fifth. Vawter tossed three hitless innings to earn the save.

AUSL Leaderboard

  1. Kayla Kowalik – 1000 points
  2. Rachel Garcia – 782 Points
  3. Erin Coffel – 738 points
  4. Danieca Coffey – 690 points
  5. Keilani Ricketts – 652 points

Next up for AUSL All-Star Cup

Series Three continues on Monday as Team Coffey takes on Team Netz. Team Ricketts versus Team Kowalik will follow, with both games on ESPNU.

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