The Diamond Bar softball team lost to the Schurr Spartans 3-1 at home last Thursday bringing the Brahma’s overall record to 4-3. The Lady Brahmas’ offense went missing against the Spartans’ aggressive pitching.

The game was scoreless for the first three innings. Schurr scored the first run of the game in the top of the fourth and the Brahmas held the Spartans to one run that inning by getting the runner out at second. Unfortunately, it was not in time to keep the runner on third from scoring. The Brahmas tried to answer back with their first hit of the game by junior Danielle Cornejo. She was left on base and the inning ended 1-0. In the top of the fifth, Schurr scored again on a double to right-center field. The Brahmas held the Spartans to two after senior Aubrey Horita made the last out of the inning.

In the bottom of the fifth, junior Rae Lasko was first up for the Brahmas and safe at first after hitting a ground ball to shortstop. A sacrifice bunt by senior Captain Arianna Martinez moved Lasko over to second and into scoring position. Freshman Ruth Munoz hit right over the first baseman’s head, giving Lasko the opportunity to score. The inning ended with Schurr ahead 2-1.

In the top of the sixth, Lasko caught the first out of the inning with her back against the center field fence. The next batter for the Spartans then hit homerun in the same spot fence. The Brahmas kept the Spartans from scoring for the rest of the game, but the damage was already done. The Brahmas had three hits this game, with one runner left on.

“We worked well defensively today, but we should of hit a lot better than we did today,” Martinez said after the game.

After spending the whole practice the day before focusing on hitting, the team was disappointed with its performance at the plate.

“Defensively we were making the plays and, Andrea was helping us get the first out of every inning, [but] our bats just did not show up at the game,” head coach Garcia-Uyemura said of sophomore Andrea Gonzalez’s five strikeouts of the game.

“Going into season we look forward to winning league and hopefully making it as far as possible in CIF,” senior Aubrey Horita said. Last year the Brahmas were second in league and made it to the first round of CIF.