Thursday, April 18
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Freshman Kelli Godin is third in the nation in batting average.
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No. 2 Bruins Travel to Oregon State
April 16, 2019 | Softball
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No. 2/2/2 UCLA at Oregon Stateย โขย Thursday, April 18 - Saturday, April 20ย โขย OSU Softball Complex
Thursday, April 18
5 p.m.
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Friday, April 19
5 p.m.
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Saturday, April 20
12 p.m.
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SECOND-RANKED BRUINS TRAVEL TO CORVALLIS
The second-ranked Bruins head to Oregon State this weekend for a three-game series, which starts on Thursday at 5 p.m. The series continues on Friday at 5 p.m. and concludes on Saturday at 12 p.m. The first two contests will air on Pac-12 Networks Los Angeles, while Saturday's game will feature a free live audio stream on UCLABruins.com (no TV).
WHAT'S NEXT?
The Bruins are back at Easton Stadium next weekend, hosting Utah. The series begins on Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m., continues on Saturday, April 27 at 6 p.m. and wraps up on Sunday, April 28 at 12 p.m.
BRUINS IN THE POLLS
UCLA checks in at No. 2 in all three national polls (NFCA/USA Softball/Softball America), dropping one spot. The Bruins were selected first in the preseason Pac-12 Conference coaches poll.
BUBBA NICKLES NAMED PAC-12 CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior Bubba Nickles has been named Pac-12 Conference Player of the Week for the first time in her career, as announced on Monday, after producing seven hits in 11 at-bats for a .636 batting average in the Bruins' series victory over Oregon last weekend. Nickles drove in five runs and scored twice.
Nickles had two hits and two RBI, including a solo homer on Friday (April 12), adding a stolen base. The following night in a win over the Ducks, Nickles tied a career high with three runs batted in on a two-run single and a sacrifice fly, adding another single for a two-hit contest. The junior rounded out the weekend on Sunday (April 14) with three hits to equal a season best, kick-starting UCLA's seven-run sixth inning with a leadoff single and a run scored.
Nickles leads the Bruins with 11 home runs and 45 runs batted in, is second with 39 runs scored and tied for third with 15 walks, adding a .372 batting average.
In 10 weeks of the season, the Bruins have earned at least one award nine times, including a pair on three occasions (Feb. 19 and Feb. 26) and a sweep on March 19. UCLA has received 14 Pac-12 weekly awards this season, and it is the second week in a row that the Bruins have picked up Player of the Week plaudits, as senior Taylor Pack earned the honor on April 8. Redshirt junior Rachel Garcia was Player of the Week on March 19 and Pitcher of the Week four times (Feb. 12, Feb. 19, Feb. 26 and March 19). Megan Faraimo is a five-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (Feb. 19, Feb. 26, March 12, April 1 and April 8), while Kelli Godin is a two-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (March 19 and March 25).
BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS (THROUGH APRIL 14)
Team Rankings - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (1st, 6.76); Earned Run Average (2nd, 1.22); Batting Average (4th, .347); Runs Per Game (5th, 7.41); On Base Percentage (7th, .422); Slugging (10th, .555); Shutouts (T-11th, 14); Triples (T-28th, 11); Doubles (T-31st, 63); Fielding Percentage (32nd, .971); Home Runs (T-32nd, 45).
Rachel Garcia - Earned Run Average (2nd, 0.65); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (2nd, 9.00); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (17th, 3.91); Strikeouts (T-20th, 171); Wins (T-21st, 17); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (32nd, 1.24).
Megan Faraimo - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (3rd, 8.83); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (7th, 3.53); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (13th, 1.01); Earned Run Average (17th, 1.18); Shutouts (T-20th, 6).
Kelli Godin - Batting Average (3rd, .487); On Base Percentage (27th, .529); Stolen Bases (T-39th, 21).
Bubba Nickles - Runs Batted In (T-20th, 45); Runs Scored (T-44th, 39).
Taylor Pack - Slugging Percentage (36th, .786); Batting Average (46th, .418)
Briana Perez - Runs Scored (T-11th, 47); Hits (T-37th, 53).
Aaliyah Jordan - Doubles (T-27th, 14).
NEWS AND NOTES
Bruin opponents have scored runs in just 37 innings this season, and on 20 occasions, UCLA has scored in its next at-bat (on two occasions, opponents as the home team scored in the last at-bat of the game, not allowing the Bruins to answer) ... the Bruins set a season high with 17 hits on March 10 against Boston. UCLA had its second-most hits of the season on April 7 at Arizona State with 16, the 17th time the Bruins have reached double figures in hits ... the 16 runs scored on April 7 were the second most this season for UCLA (17 vs. UC Riverside on Feb. 17). The Bruins have reached double digits in runs 10 times ... the Bruins had an early 3-0 deficit at Long Beach State on March 10, marking just their second three-run deficit (largest) of the season. UCLA also trailed 4-1 to No. 16 Kentucky on Feb. 23 before scoring 11 unanswered runs to mercy the Wildcats ... the Bruins have 11 comeback victories this season, recording their most recent one against Oregon last Saturday ... redshirt junior Rachel Garcia has recorded either a win (17) or a save (2) in all 19 of her pitching appearances, posting nine double-figure strikeout contests, including 12 on April 6 at Arizona State. Garcia's season high in strikeouts is 15 at Hawaii (Feb. 8) and against No. 2 Oklahoma (Feb. 22). She has allowed zero or one earned run in 18 of her 19 games, and has not given up a home run since March 9 against BYU (57 2/3 innings) ... meanwhile at the plate, Garcia drove in a career-high six at Washington on March 17, her second game this year with at least five RBI (Florida, Feb. 27). She had a stretch of eight consecutive hits against Washington (March 16-17), Saint Mary's (March 24) and CSUN (March 24). Garcia has reached base in 15 of her last 16 games ... senior Taylor Pack carries an eight-game hitting streak into this weekend's action, batting .542 (13-for-24) during the stretch with three homers, 11 RBI, eight runs and four doubles. Half of those games have been multiple-hit contests, three have been multi-RBI affairs and seven of her 13 hits have been for extra bases. Seven of Pack's eight homers this season have come since March 8, including the first two-homer game of her career on April 5 at ASU ... junior Bubba Nickles, the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week, has hits in seven in a row, batting .500 (12-for-24) during the streak with two homers, 10 RBI and six runs scored. The team leader in home runs with 11, she has hits in 33 of 39 games, has driven in runs in 27 contests and scored in 26. Nickles compiled a 24-game hitting streak before it came to an end versus Colorado State on Feb. 24. During the streak, she hit .466 (34-for-73) with 10 home runs, 30 runs batted in and 27 runs scored. Only three UCLA hitting streaks were higher than Nickles' (Natasha Watley, 32 in 2001 and 29 in 2002, and Stacey Nuveman, 28 in 1997) ... redshirt sophomore Aaliyah Jordan has hits in six of her last seven games, batting .429 (9-for-21) with four homers, 11 RBI and nine runs. She posted the first two-homer contest of her career on April 6 at ASU. The team leader in doubles had three versus Liberty on March 9 to become the sixth Bruin ever to post three two-baggers in the same contest. She has hits in 29 of her last 34 games ... 11 of the 16 steals this season for sophomore Briana Perez have come in her last 18 games, including a pair of games with two swipes. She has a hit in 11 of her last 13 contests, batting .366 (15-for-41) during the stretch with 12 RBI, 15 runs and eight steals. Perez leads the Bruins with 17 multiple-hit games and has scored a run in 31 of 39 contests, including 13 of her last 16 ... freshman Megan Faraimo had a scoreless innings streak of 26 1/3 before it was snapped on Friday, but has allowed zero or one earned run in 14 of her 17 games. Faraimo tossed her second no-hitter on Feb. 24 against Colorado State. Along with it being the 111th in UCLA history, it marked the first time a Bruin had two no-hitters in the same season since 2015 (Ally Carda) and the first UCLA freshman to do so since 2005 (Anjelica Selden). She has seven games with at least eight strikeouts, fanning a career-best 12 against Robert Morris. Faraimo also had 11 strikeouts against Cal State Fullerton on March 26 and 10 in her first no-hitter versus Fresno State (Feb. 16) ... freshman Kelli Godin has hits in 11 of her last 14, batting .515 (17-for-33) during the stretch with 15 runs scored, six RBI and nine stolen bases. The freshman stole her first 18 bases before getting caught on March 26 against Cal State Fullerton. It was the most successful stolen bases to start a UCLA career. Godin stole three bases against Saint Mary's on Feb. 9 to tie a school record, and then did it again versus the Gaels on March 24 ... over her last seven games, senior Paige Halstead is batting .400 (6-for-15) with three RBI, two runs and two doubles. She had a pair of run-scoring doubles on April 7 at ASU, driving in three, and got on base twice via a single and a walk in each of the last two contests against Oregon last weekend ... the Bruins have three grand slams this season, the latest coming off the bat of sophomore Malia Quarles, who had a pinch-hit salami on Sunday. It was her second-career homer, with her first coming on April 5 at ASU ... speaking of first-career homers, sophomore Kinsley Washington notched her first on April 7 at ASU ... sophomore Holly Azevedo did not allow a run in five innings against Oregon last weekend, striking out seven and giving up just one hit and one hit by pitch. Taking out the April 7 game at ASU, Azevedo has 14 1/3 scoreless innings with 13 strikeouts. Her best game of the year came against Florida on Feb. 27 when she struck out eight in five innings ... freshman Colleen Sullivan drew four walks in the April 6 game at ASU, just the seventh time a Bruin had accomplished that feat in one contest ...Perez led off the March 8 game against Robert Morris with an inside-the-park home run. It marked the first inside-the-park homer for the Bruins since Andrea Duran on June 3, 2006 versus Texas ... UCLA shattered a school record for most runs in one inning in a Feb. 17 victory over UC Riverside. The Bruins scored 16 runs in the first inning, including 13 before making an out. The 16-run outburst broke the previous school record of 13 runs scored on April 21, 1992 against Cal Poly Pomona. As far as national rankings go, the 16 runs are tied for the 11th-most runs in one inning, while the 16 first-inning runs are tied for the second-most, first-inning runs ever ... UCLA softball recorded its 1,900th victory in program history on March 8 against Robert Morris.
SCOUTING THE OREGON STATE BEAVERS
Oregon State (21-15, 3-10 Pac-12) won its first Pac-12 series, winning 2-of-3 at California last weekend. The Beavers are batting .252 as a team with 20 home runs and 45 stolen bases, averaging 4.0 runs per game. Sophomore Missy Nunes is first on the team with a .292 batting average and second with six home runs and 24 runs batted in. Senior Jessica Garcia (.276) is first with 14 stolen bases, while freshman Frankie Hammoude (.255) leads the squad with nine homers and 29 RBI. Sophomore Mariah Mazon has factored in seven of the Beavers' last eight decisions, posting a 12-10 record, a 2.70 earned run average and 131 strikeouts in 132 1/3 innings. Senior Meehra Nelson is 6-4 with a 4.11 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 76 2/3 innings.
THE SERIES: UCLA VERSUS OREGON STATE
UCLA swept Oregon State last season to move to 100-15 all-time against the Beavers. The Bruins posted 3-2, 5-3 and 7-5 victories. Oregon State won the last series in Corvallis in 2017. UCLA is 39-9 on the road against the Beavers.
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No. 2/2/2 UCLA at Oregon Stateย โขย Thursday, April 18 - Saturday, April 20ย โขย OSU Softball Complex
Thursday, April 18
5 p.m.
TV: Pac-12 Networks Los Angeles
Live Stats
Friday, April 19
5 p.m.
TV: Pac-12 Networks Los Angeles
Live Stats
Saturday, April 20
12 p.m.
Free Live Audio
Live Stats
SECOND-RANKED BRUINS TRAVEL TO CORVALLIS
The second-ranked Bruins head to Oregon State this weekend for a three-game series, which starts on Thursday at 5 p.m. The series continues on Friday at 5 p.m. and concludes on Saturday at 12 p.m. The first two contests will air on Pac-12 Networks Los Angeles, while Saturday's game will feature a free live audio stream on UCLABruins.com (no TV).
WHAT'S NEXT?
The Bruins are back at Easton Stadium next weekend, hosting Utah. The series begins on Friday, April 26 at 7 p.m., continues on Saturday, April 27 at 6 p.m. and wraps up on Sunday, April 28 at 12 p.m.
BRUINS IN THE POLLS
UCLA checks in at No. 2 in all three national polls (NFCA/USA Softball/Softball America), dropping one spot. The Bruins were selected first in the preseason Pac-12 Conference coaches poll.
BUBBA NICKLES NAMED PAC-12 CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Junior Bubba Nickles has been named Pac-12 Conference Player of the Week for the first time in her career, as announced on Monday, after producing seven hits in 11 at-bats for a .636 batting average in the Bruins' series victory over Oregon last weekend. Nickles drove in five runs and scored twice.
Nickles had two hits and two RBI, including a solo homer on Friday (April 12), adding a stolen base. The following night in a win over the Ducks, Nickles tied a career high with three runs batted in on a two-run single and a sacrifice fly, adding another single for a two-hit contest. The junior rounded out the weekend on Sunday (April 14) with three hits to equal a season best, kick-starting UCLA's seven-run sixth inning with a leadoff single and a run scored.
Nickles leads the Bruins with 11 home runs and 45 runs batted in, is second with 39 runs scored and tied for third with 15 walks, adding a .372 batting average.
In 10 weeks of the season, the Bruins have earned at least one award nine times, including a pair on three occasions (Feb. 19 and Feb. 26) and a sweep on March 19. UCLA has received 14 Pac-12 weekly awards this season, and it is the second week in a row that the Bruins have picked up Player of the Week plaudits, as senior Taylor Pack earned the honor on April 8. Redshirt junior Rachel Garcia was Player of the Week on March 19 and Pitcher of the Week four times (Feb. 12, Feb. 19, Feb. 26 and March 19). Megan Faraimo is a five-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (Feb. 19, Feb. 26, March 12, April 1 and April 8), while Kelli Godin is a two-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week (March 19 and March 25).
BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS (THROUGH APRIL 14)
Team Rankings - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (1st, 6.76); Earned Run Average (2nd, 1.22); Batting Average (4th, .347); Runs Per Game (5th, 7.41); On Base Percentage (7th, .422); Slugging (10th, .555); Shutouts (T-11th, 14); Triples (T-28th, 11); Doubles (T-31st, 63); Fielding Percentage (32nd, .971); Home Runs (T-32nd, 45).
Rachel Garcia - Earned Run Average (2nd, 0.65); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (2nd, 9.00); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (17th, 3.91); Strikeouts (T-20th, 171); Wins (T-21st, 17); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (32nd, 1.24).
Megan Faraimo - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (3rd, 8.83); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (7th, 3.53); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (13th, 1.01); Earned Run Average (17th, 1.18); Shutouts (T-20th, 6).
Kelli Godin - Batting Average (3rd, .487); On Base Percentage (27th, .529); Stolen Bases (T-39th, 21).
Bubba Nickles - Runs Batted In (T-20th, 45); Runs Scored (T-44th, 39).
Taylor Pack - Slugging Percentage (36th, .786); Batting Average (46th, .418)
Briana Perez - Runs Scored (T-11th, 47); Hits (T-37th, 53).
Aaliyah Jordan - Doubles (T-27th, 14).
NEWS AND NOTES
Bruin opponents have scored runs in just 37 innings this season, and on 20 occasions, UCLA has scored in its next at-bat (on two occasions, opponents as the home team scored in the last at-bat of the game, not allowing the Bruins to answer) ... the Bruins set a season high with 17 hits on March 10 against Boston. UCLA had its second-most hits of the season on April 7 at Arizona State with 16, the 17th time the Bruins have reached double figures in hits ... the 16 runs scored on April 7 were the second most this season for UCLA (17 vs. UC Riverside on Feb. 17). The Bruins have reached double digits in runs 10 times ... the Bruins had an early 3-0 deficit at Long Beach State on March 10, marking just their second three-run deficit (largest) of the season. UCLA also trailed 4-1 to No. 16 Kentucky on Feb. 23 before scoring 11 unanswered runs to mercy the Wildcats ... the Bruins have 11 comeback victories this season, recording their most recent one against Oregon last Saturday ... redshirt junior Rachel Garcia has recorded either a win (17) or a save (2) in all 19 of her pitching appearances, posting nine double-figure strikeout contests, including 12 on April 6 at Arizona State. Garcia's season high in strikeouts is 15 at Hawaii (Feb. 8) and against No. 2 Oklahoma (Feb. 22). She has allowed zero or one earned run in 18 of her 19 games, and has not given up a home run since March 9 against BYU (57 2/3 innings) ... meanwhile at the plate, Garcia drove in a career-high six at Washington on March 17, her second game this year with at least five RBI (Florida, Feb. 27). She had a stretch of eight consecutive hits against Washington (March 16-17), Saint Mary's (March 24) and CSUN (March 24). Garcia has reached base in 15 of her last 16 games ... senior Taylor Pack carries an eight-game hitting streak into this weekend's action, batting .542 (13-for-24) during the stretch with three homers, 11 RBI, eight runs and four doubles. Half of those games have been multiple-hit contests, three have been multi-RBI affairs and seven of her 13 hits have been for extra bases. Seven of Pack's eight homers this season have come since March 8, including the first two-homer game of her career on April 5 at ASU ... junior Bubba Nickles, the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week, has hits in seven in a row, batting .500 (12-for-24) during the streak with two homers, 10 RBI and six runs scored. The team leader in home runs with 11, she has hits in 33 of 39 games, has driven in runs in 27 contests and scored in 26. Nickles compiled a 24-game hitting streak before it came to an end versus Colorado State on Feb. 24. During the streak, she hit .466 (34-for-73) with 10 home runs, 30 runs batted in and 27 runs scored. Only three UCLA hitting streaks were higher than Nickles' (Natasha Watley, 32 in 2001 and 29 in 2002, and Stacey Nuveman, 28 in 1997) ... redshirt sophomore Aaliyah Jordan has hits in six of her last seven games, batting .429 (9-for-21) with four homers, 11 RBI and nine runs. She posted the first two-homer contest of her career on April 6 at ASU. The team leader in doubles had three versus Liberty on March 9 to become the sixth Bruin ever to post three two-baggers in the same contest. She has hits in 29 of her last 34 games ... 11 of the 16 steals this season for sophomore Briana Perez have come in her last 18 games, including a pair of games with two swipes. She has a hit in 11 of her last 13 contests, batting .366 (15-for-41) during the stretch with 12 RBI, 15 runs and eight steals. Perez leads the Bruins with 17 multiple-hit games and has scored a run in 31 of 39 contests, including 13 of her last 16 ... freshman Megan Faraimo had a scoreless innings streak of 26 1/3 before it was snapped on Friday, but has allowed zero or one earned run in 14 of her 17 games. Faraimo tossed her second no-hitter on Feb. 24 against Colorado State. Along with it being the 111th in UCLA history, it marked the first time a Bruin had two no-hitters in the same season since 2015 (Ally Carda) and the first UCLA freshman to do so since 2005 (Anjelica Selden). She has seven games with at least eight strikeouts, fanning a career-best 12 against Robert Morris. Faraimo also had 11 strikeouts against Cal State Fullerton on March 26 and 10 in her first no-hitter versus Fresno State (Feb. 16) ... freshman Kelli Godin has hits in 11 of her last 14, batting .515 (17-for-33) during the stretch with 15 runs scored, six RBI and nine stolen bases. The freshman stole her first 18 bases before getting caught on March 26 against Cal State Fullerton. It was the most successful stolen bases to start a UCLA career. Godin stole three bases against Saint Mary's on Feb. 9 to tie a school record, and then did it again versus the Gaels on March 24 ... over her last seven games, senior Paige Halstead is batting .400 (6-for-15) with three RBI, two runs and two doubles. She had a pair of run-scoring doubles on April 7 at ASU, driving in three, and got on base twice via a single and a walk in each of the last two contests against Oregon last weekend ... the Bruins have three grand slams this season, the latest coming off the bat of sophomore Malia Quarles, who had a pinch-hit salami on Sunday. It was her second-career homer, with her first coming on April 5 at ASU ... speaking of first-career homers, sophomore Kinsley Washington notched her first on April 7 at ASU ... sophomore Holly Azevedo did not allow a run in five innings against Oregon last weekend, striking out seven and giving up just one hit and one hit by pitch. Taking out the April 7 game at ASU, Azevedo has 14 1/3 scoreless innings with 13 strikeouts. Her best game of the year came against Florida on Feb. 27 when she struck out eight in five innings ... freshman Colleen Sullivan drew four walks in the April 6 game at ASU, just the seventh time a Bruin had accomplished that feat in one contest ...Perez led off the March 8 game against Robert Morris with an inside-the-park home run. It marked the first inside-the-park homer for the Bruins since Andrea Duran on June 3, 2006 versus Texas ... UCLA shattered a school record for most runs in one inning in a Feb. 17 victory over UC Riverside. The Bruins scored 16 runs in the first inning, including 13 before making an out. The 16-run outburst broke the previous school record of 13 runs scored on April 21, 1992 against Cal Poly Pomona. As far as national rankings go, the 16 runs are tied for the 11th-most runs in one inning, while the 16 first-inning runs are tied for the second-most, first-inning runs ever ... UCLA softball recorded its 1,900th victory in program history on March 8 against Robert Morris.
SCOUTING THE OREGON STATE BEAVERS
Oregon State (21-15, 3-10 Pac-12) won its first Pac-12 series, winning 2-of-3 at California last weekend. The Beavers are batting .252 as a team with 20 home runs and 45 stolen bases, averaging 4.0 runs per game. Sophomore Missy Nunes is first on the team with a .292 batting average and second with six home runs and 24 runs batted in. Senior Jessica Garcia (.276) is first with 14 stolen bases, while freshman Frankie Hammoude (.255) leads the squad with nine homers and 29 RBI. Sophomore Mariah Mazon has factored in seven of the Beavers' last eight decisions, posting a 12-10 record, a 2.70 earned run average and 131 strikeouts in 132 1/3 innings. Senior Meehra Nelson is 6-4 with a 4.11 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 76 2/3 innings.
THE SERIES: UCLA VERSUS OREGON STATE
UCLA swept Oregon State last season to move to 100-15 all-time against the Beavers. The Bruins posted 3-2, 5-3 and 7-5 victories. Oregon State won the last series in Corvallis in 2017. UCLA is 39-9 on the road against the Beavers.
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