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Roadrunners drop home doubleheader to Victor Valley

Roadrunners drop home doubleheader to Victor Valley
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March 27, 2026

WHITTIER — The Rio Hondo College softball team dropped both games of a home doubleheader to Victor Valley College on Friday, falling 11-5 in seven innings in the opener and 18-2 in five innings in Game 2.

Game 1: Victor Valley 11, Rio Hondo 5

Victor Valley scored in four of seven innings and never trailed after taking a 4-1 lead in the second.

The Roadrunners tied the game in the first when Tatyana Caudillo-Wilson doubled home Mia Godinez, but Victor Valley answered with three runs in the second on an RBI single and a two-RBI double by Hope Merrill. Rio Hondo cut the deficit to 4-2 in the third on a Caudillo-Wilson groundout that scored Alyssa Pallan, but Victor Valley pushed ahead with a four-run fifth.

Rio Hondo scored three times in the bottom of the fifth — on a Caudillo-Wilson RBI double, an RBI single by Natalie Sosa and an RBI single by Hailey Gutierrez — to pull within 8-5, but Victor Valley added three more in the seventh to close it out.

Caudillo-Wilson finished 2 for 4 with two doubles and three RBI to lead Rio Hondo at the plate. Delilah Perez pitched all seven innings, allowing 11 runs (nine earned) on 14 hits.

Game 2: Victor Valley 18, Rio Hondo 2

Victor Valley scored in every inning and ended the game via run rule after five innings.

Rio Hondo scored first in the second when Alyssa Pallan singled home Hailey Gutierrez, who had doubled to lead off the frame. But Victor Valley had already taken a 1-0 lead in the first on a passed ball and scored five in the third — capped by a grand slam from Samantha Conan — to open a 6-1 advantage. Conan added two more RBI in the fourth, and Victor Valley added seven in the fifth to end it.

Rio Hondo's second run scored in the fifth on an RBI single by Gutierrez that plated Gisslle Ramirez-Huerta, who had tripled to lead off the inning. Gutierrez went 2 for 3 with a double, an RBI and scored a run to pace the Roadrunners. Pallan also went 2 for 3 with an RBI.

Perez took the loss, allowing 18 runs (12 earned) on 13 hits in five innings.

With the two losses, Rio Hondo fell to 2-25 overall. The Roadrunners are back in action on Monday (Mar. 30) when they travel to East Los Angeles College for a South Coast Conference game.