BERKELEY Calif. - Santa Clara softball was one out away from claiming a road win at Cal but squandered away a four run lead in the 11th inning and lost 9-8 in 13 innings on Wednesday afternoon at Levine-Fricke Field.

Makena Smith was the hero for Cal (29-12-1) with her walk-off RBI double in the 13th and the game-tying three-run home run in the 11th.  She finished with four RBIs on 3-for-6 hitting and a walk.

The top three hitters in the Cal lineup – Tatum Anzaldo, Acacia Anders and Smith – went 7-for-17 combined in drove in all but one of the Bears runs.

Santa Clara (18-21) appeared to have the game in hand in the top half of the 11th when they scored four runs to take an 8-4 lead.  

Hazyl Gray and Ashley Trierweiler started the 11th with back-to-back singles off Haylei Archer and each moved over a base on a wild pitch.  Annabel Teperson replaced Archer and walked Sammy Needham to load the bases with no out.  Teperson uncorked a wild pitch that scored Gray.  Emma Bickford singled in a run to make it 6-4 and the Broncos added two more runs on a fielding error by the Bears second baseman.

Regan Dias pitched admirably in relief blanking the Bears for six-straight innings before running into trouble in the 11th, giving up an RBI single to Acacia Anders before Smith's game-tying home run.

Until each team put up four runs in the 11th, all the scoring was done in the first four frames.

Trierweiler, who entered the game second in the nation with a .509 batting average, got things rolling for the Broncos, scoring in the first and the third frames when she led off each inning with a hit.  She scored the first run on a Cal fielding error and the second run on Lauren LaHood' RBI single.

Trierweiler finished 5-for-6 with a walk to bring her average up to .527

Cal came back with three runs in the home half of the third including Anders' two-run home run off Hazyl Gray to go up 3-2.

Gray answered with a two-run blast of her own in the fourth to put the Broncos back on top 4-3.  It was her first career home run for the freshman two-way player.  She went 3-for-5 with a pair of runs and RBIs.

In the bottom half of the fourth, Hope Alley singled in a run to knot the game up at 4-all.

Teperson (9-3) who started in the circle and threw the first three innings before coming in relief for the final three innings earned the win.  In six innings total, she gave up six hits, four runs, one earned.

Hager (8-6) took the loss for the Broncos who have now lost seven-straight games.