On May 5, 1993, Cal softball pitcher Michele Granger established an NCAA record that may never be broken, and she wasn’t even on the field
As the Pac-12 Conference era comes to a close after more than a century, we count down the Top 50 moments involving Cal athletics.The instant Cal pushed across the 10th run in the bottom of the fifth inning of a 10-0 softball victory over San Jose State on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 5, 1993, at Cal’s Strawberry Canyon softball field, Bears pitcher Michele Granger established a prestigious NCAA record that may never be broken. And she wasn’t even on the field at the time.
How big a deal was it? The next morning, on a back page of the Oakland Tribune sports section, under the tiny headline “Cal Slams San Jose State” was this opening paragraph: The San Francisco Chronicle had no story about Granger’s feat, noting it only with a linescore in tiny type underneath the results of Tour of Spain cycling competition on the agate page.
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