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TEMPE, Ariz. - The Purdue softball team said so-long to its slumbering bats.
But Stanford also swung some mighty sticks and defeated the Boilermakers 16-9 on Saturday in the renowned Kajikawa Classic at the Tempe Sports Complex.
Purdue (0-4) rapped out a season-high 14 hits. Maya Hughes had her second three-hit game of the young season, equaling her career best, and Lexi Huffman also had a career-high three safeties. Kristen Hoppman and Emily Kenny had two hits apiece.
The Boilermakers jumped on Stanford starting pitcher Nikki Bauer with four runs in the first inning. Kenny drove in a pair with a two-out bases-loaded single.
Stanford (4-0) responded with four runs of its own in the second inning and added three in the fourth to take a 7-4 lead.
Three Cardinal errors, including two on a ball hit by Hughes, gave Purdue two runs in its half of the fourth, and the Boilermakers took an 8-6 lead in the fifth on RBI singles by Mallory Baker and Alexa Binckes.
But the lead was short-lived as Stanford sent 13 batters to the plate in the sixth inning and scored eight runs on nine hits. Maddie Damon was charged with the loss after giving up three runs in 1.2 innings pitched.
A double by Kaylah Hampton followed by a run-scoring single by Huffman gave the Boilermakers their final tally.
The Boilermakers had not scored in three previous games against Stanford (2006, 2007 and 2008), and the nine runs equaled the most they have scored against a Pac-10 opponent. Purdue lost to Oregon 10-9 on Feb. 18, 1995.
Last season, the Boilermakers scored nine or more runs just four times.
Stanford's 16 runs are the second-most Purdue has allowed in a game in program history, behind 17 by Northwestern on April 14, 2000, and the Cardinal's 21 hits are an opponent record. Three teams had 17, most recently Rutgers in the second game of a doubleheader March 28, 2015.
The Boilermakers wrap up their visit to the Valley of the Sun on Sunday against Saint Mary's (2-2). Game time is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET.
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