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No. 2 Bruins Travel to Stanford to Close Pac-12 Road Slate
May 01, 2019 | Softball
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No. 2/2/2 UCLA at Stanfordย โขย Friday, May 3 - Sunday, May 5ย โขย Smith Family Stadium
Friday, May 3
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Saturday, May 4
1 p.m.
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Sunday, May 5
12 p.m.
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SECOND-RANKED BRUINS TRAVEL TO STANFORD
The second-ranked Bruins play their penultimate regular-season series this weekend, taking their talents to Stanford for a three-game set. The series starts on Friday at 5 p.m., continues on Saturday at 1 p.m. and concludes on Sunday at 12 p.m. All three contests will be televised on Pac-12 Network Los Angeles.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The final series of the regular season will likely be a showdown for the Pac-12 Conference title, as UCLA hosts No. 3 Arizona at Easton Stadium, with both teams entering the second-to-last weekend of league play with a 17-1 record. The series begins on Thursday, May 9 at 7 p.m., continues on Friday, May 10 at 5 p.m. and concludes on Saturday, May 11 at 12 p.m. All three games will air on Pac-12 Networks. On Sunday, May 12, ESPNU will air the NCAA Selection Show at 7 p.m.
BRUINS IN THE POLLS
UCLA checks in at No. 2 in all three national polls (NFCA/USA Softball/Softball America) for the third week in a row. The Bruins were selected first in the preseason Pac-12 Conference coaches poll.
GARCIA, GODIN NAMED FINALISTS FOR USA SOFTBALL COLLEGIATE PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Redshirt junior Rachel Garcia and freshman Kelli Godin are two of 26 finalists for the 2019 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, as announced by USA Softball on April 24.
Garcia won the award last year, while Godin is one of only three freshmen finalists for the honor. The finalists also include 10 seniors, nine juniors and four sophomores. UCLA's two finalists are tied for the second most.
The USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, which is considered the most prestigious honor in Division I women's collegiate softball, recognizes the outstanding athletic achievement by Division I female players across the country. Previous recipients of the award include UCLA alum Stacey Nuveman (2002) and Garcia.
The list of 26 finalists will be narrowed to the Top 10 on May 8 before the Top 3 finalists are named on May 22. The 2019 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award will be revealed on May 28 at the Women's College World Series.
FARAIMO, GODIN NAMED TO FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR TOP 25 LIST
Two Bruins have been named to the 2019 Schutt Sports/NFCA Freshman of the Year Top 25 list, as announced on April 18, as freshmen Megan Faraimo and Kelli Godin have been named finalists.
UCLA, along with Virginia Tech, are the only two teams to have a pair of players on the Top 25 list. On May 9, the current Top 25 list will be trimmed down to 10, with the Top 3 finalists announced on May 21. The Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year trophy will be presented on May 28 at the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. The NFCA FOY is in its sixth year. The Bruins had the winner in 2017 in current redshirt junior Rachel Garcia.
BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS (THROUGH APRIL 28)
Team Rankings - Earned Run Average (1st, 1.16); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (2nd, 6.19); Batting Average (3rd, 3.52); Runs Per Game (4th, 7.47); On Base Percentage (5th, .429); Slugging (9th, .565); Shutouts (T-16th, 17); Fielding Percentage (27th, .972); Home Runs (33rd, 55); Doubles (T-38th, 72).
Rachel Garcia - Earned Run Average (2nd, 0.64); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (4th, 8.36); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (9th, 3.78); Wins (T-29th, 19); Strikeouts (T-29th, 184); Shutouts (T-29th, 6); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (34th, 1.28).
Megan Faraimo - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (6th, 7.12); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (13th, 3.90); Earned Run Average (18th, 1.28); Shutouts (T-29th, 6); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (33rd, 1.28).
Bubba Nickles - Runs Batted In (T-20th, 52); Runs Scored (T-35th, 47); Total Bases (T-49th, 106).
Kelli Godin - Batting Average (7th, .457); On Base Percentage (37th, .510).
Holly Azevedo - Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (45th, 4.83).
Aaliyah Jordan - Doubles (T-30th, 16).
Taylor Pack - Slugging Percentage (43rd, .773).
Briana Perez - Runs Scored (T-12th, 55).
NEWS AND NOTES
Bruin opponents have scored runs in just 41 innings this season, and on 21 occasions, UCLA has scored in its next at-bat (on three occasions, opponents as the home team scored in the last at-bat of the game, not allowing the Bruins to answer) ... UCLA is averaging 9.11 runs per game and has posted four double-figure scoring contests in its nine Pac-12 road affairs, while averaging 5.67 runs per game and recording one double-figure scoring contest in its nine Pac-12 home matchups ... 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 Bruins have reached double figures in hits 21 times ... 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 12 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 12 comeback victories this season, recording their most recent one versus Oregon State on April 18 ... redshirt junior Rachel Garcia has recorded either a win (19) or a save (2) in all 21 of her pitching appearances, posting nine double-figure strikeout contests, including 12 on April 6 at Arizona State. Her season high in strikeouts is 15 at Hawaii (Feb. 8) and against No. 2 Oklahoma (Feb. 22). Garcia, who has 12 complete games in her 14 starts, has allowed zero or one earned run in 20 of her 21 games, and has not given up a home run since March 9 against BYU (70 2/3 innings) ... meanwhile at the plate, Garcia had back-to-back, three-RBI games against Oregon (April 14) and Oregon State (April 18), and has hits in six of her last seven. She has reached base in 21 of her last 22 games. 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) ... junior Bubba Nickles is riding a 13-game hitting streak, batting .548 (23-for-42) during this stretch with four home runs, 17 RBI, 14 runs and seven walks. Seven of her 13 games have gone for multiple hits, including three-hit contests three times. Nickles has hits in 39 of 45 games, has driven in runs in 30 contests and scored in 31. 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) ... senior Taylor Pack, who left Friday's game against Utah with an injury, did not play the final two contests of the series and is day-to-day, has hits in 10 of her last 12 games, batting .472 (17-for-36) during the stretch with four homers, 15 RBI, 10 runs and five doubles. Six of the 12 contests have been for multiple hits, four have been multi-RBI affairs and nine of her 17 hits have gone for extra bases. Eight of Pack's nine homers this season have come since March 8, including the first two-homer game of her career on April 5 at ASU ... redshirt sophomore Aaliyah Jordan has hits in 10 of her last 13 games, batting .410 (16-for-39) with four homers, 17 RBI and 16 runs. She posted the first two-homer contest of her career on April 6 at ASU and had a three-hit contest on Sunday versus Utah. 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. Jordan, who returned to the outfield last weekend, has hits in 33 of her last 40 games ... sophomore Briana Perez has a hit in five in a row and 16 of her last 18, batting .379 (22-for-58) during the stretch with 17 RBI, 23 runs and nine stolen bases. She was 5-for-9 (.556) last weekend against Utah with five RBI, five runs and a pair of homers. Perez's five home runs this season have all come since March 8. She leads the Bruins with 18 multiple-hit games and has scored a run in 35 of 44 contests, including 17 of her last 21 ... freshman Megan Faraimo has at least seven strikeouts in her last four games, totaling 32 in her last 21 innings. She had a scoreless innings streak of 26 1/3 from March 26-April 12. 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 eight 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 16 of her last 20, batting .449 (22-for-49) during the stretch with 19 runs scored, seven RBI and 10 stolen bases. She has scored a run in nine of her last 11. 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 ... sophomore Holly Azevedo has not allowed a run in 18 1/3 consecutive innings, striking out 13 and giving up only nine hits and two walks in her last five outings. She had back-to-back, complete-game shutouts in her last two appearances at Oregon State (April 20) and versus Utah (April 28). Taking out the April 7 game at ASU, Azevedo has 27 1/3 scoreless innings with 19 strikeouts. Her best game of the year came against Florida on Feb. 27 when she struck out eight in five innings ... 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 April 14 against Oregon. Quarles, who is 7-for-18 (.389) as a pinch-hitter with 11 RBI, started all three games at designated player last weekend against Utah. She went 4-for-6 (.667), going 2-for-2 with an RBI single and a solo homer on Saturday and 2-for-3 with a two-run single and an RBI single on Sunday ... freshman Colleen Sullivan had hits in four in a row, with hits in the last two of the OSU series and the first two of the Utah series, batting .455 (5-for-11) with three homers, six RBI and four runs. Even if she doesn't record a hit, Sullivan has been getting on base via the walk, having drawn a team-best 11 free passes in the month of April. She drew four walks in the April 6 game at ASU, just the seventh time a Bruin had accomplished that feat in one contest ... senior Brianna Tautalafua returned to the lineup against Utah, and in her last four contests is 5-for-12 (.417) with a homer and six RBI. She posted two hits and two RBI in the middle contest ... sophomore Kinsley Washington has hits in seven of her last 11 games. She belted her first career homer on April 7 at ASU ... senior Paige Halstead, who has hits in four of her last nine, has a .994 fielding percentage with just one error in 165 chances ... junior Jacqui Prober recorded the first two-hit game of her career on April 19 at OSU, singling twice and adding an RBI grounder ... 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 STANFORD CARDINAL
Stanford (31-13, 7-8 Pac-12) has been swept in its last two series at home against Arizona State last weekend and at Arizona the previous weekend. The Cardinal are hitting .287 as a team with 25 home runs and 38 stolen bases, averaging 5.11 runs per game. Five players are hitting at least .300, led by junior Teaghan Cowles' .403 average. She is first with 10 doubles and tied for first with six homers. Freshman Emily Schultz is second at a .321 average, while junior Kristina Inouye is third at .317 and first with 31 runs batted in. Senior Carolyn Lee and sophomore Maddy Dwyer have started 42 of 44 games in the circle. Dwyer is 12-6 with a 3.12 earned run average and 52 strikeouts in 92 innings, while Lee is 10-6 with a 3.53 ERA and 97 strikeouts in 125 innings. Additionally, junior Kiana Pancino is 7-0 with eight saves, a 2.54 ERA and 41 strikeouts in 49 2/3 innings.
THE SERIES: UCLA VERSUS STANFORD
UCLA leads the all-time series, 70-21, and has won 13 of the last 14. The most recent matchup resulted in a 4-1 Stanford victory last season at Easton Stadium to snap the Bruins' 13-game winning streak. Despite that setback, the Bruins have won the last five series versus the Cardinal, including two in a row at Stanford, where they have a record of 35-7.
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No. 2/2/2 UCLA at Stanfordย โขย Friday, May 3 - Sunday, May 5ย โขย Smith Family Stadium
Friday, May 3
5 p.m.
TV: Pac-12 Networks Los Angeles
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Saturday, May 4
1 p.m.
TV: Pac-12 Networks Los Angeles
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Sunday, May 5
12 p.m.
TV: Pac-12 Networks Los Angeles
Live Stats
SECOND-RANKED BRUINS TRAVEL TO STANFORD
The second-ranked Bruins play their penultimate regular-season series this weekend, taking their talents to Stanford for a three-game set. The series starts on Friday at 5 p.m., continues on Saturday at 1 p.m. and concludes on Sunday at 12 p.m. All three contests will be televised on Pac-12 Network Los Angeles.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The final series of the regular season will likely be a showdown for the Pac-12 Conference title, as UCLA hosts No. 3 Arizona at Easton Stadium, with both teams entering the second-to-last weekend of league play with a 17-1 record. The series begins on Thursday, May 9 at 7 p.m., continues on Friday, May 10 at 5 p.m. and concludes on Saturday, May 11 at 12 p.m. All three games will air on Pac-12 Networks. On Sunday, May 12, ESPNU will air the NCAA Selection Show at 7 p.m.
BRUINS IN THE POLLS
UCLA checks in at No. 2 in all three national polls (NFCA/USA Softball/Softball America) for the third week in a row. The Bruins were selected first in the preseason Pac-12 Conference coaches poll.
GARCIA, GODIN NAMED FINALISTS FOR USA SOFTBALL COLLEGIATE PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Redshirt junior Rachel Garcia and freshman Kelli Godin are two of 26 finalists for the 2019 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, as announced by USA Softball on April 24.
Garcia won the award last year, while Godin is one of only three freshmen finalists for the honor. The finalists also include 10 seniors, nine juniors and four sophomores. UCLA's two finalists are tied for the second most.
The USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, which is considered the most prestigious honor in Division I women's collegiate softball, recognizes the outstanding athletic achievement by Division I female players across the country. Previous recipients of the award include UCLA alum Stacey Nuveman (2002) and Garcia.
The list of 26 finalists will be narrowed to the Top 10 on May 8 before the Top 3 finalists are named on May 22. The 2019 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award will be revealed on May 28 at the Women's College World Series.
FARAIMO, GODIN NAMED TO FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR TOP 25 LIST
Two Bruins have been named to the 2019 Schutt Sports/NFCA Freshman of the Year Top 25 list, as announced on April 18, as freshmen Megan Faraimo and Kelli Godin have been named finalists.
UCLA, along with Virginia Tech, are the only two teams to have a pair of players on the Top 25 list. On May 9, the current Top 25 list will be trimmed down to 10, with the Top 3 finalists announced on May 21. The Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year trophy will be presented on May 28 at the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. The NFCA FOY is in its sixth year. The Bruins had the winner in 2017 in current redshirt junior Rachel Garcia.
BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS (THROUGH APRIL 28)
Team Rankings - Earned Run Average (1st, 1.16); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (2nd, 6.19); Batting Average (3rd, 3.52); Runs Per Game (4th, 7.47); On Base Percentage (5th, .429); Slugging (9th, .565); Shutouts (T-16th, 17); Fielding Percentage (27th, .972); Home Runs (33rd, 55); Doubles (T-38th, 72).
Rachel Garcia - Earned Run Average (2nd, 0.64); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (4th, 8.36); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (9th, 3.78); Wins (T-29th, 19); Strikeouts (T-29th, 184); Shutouts (T-29th, 6); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (34th, 1.28).
Megan Faraimo - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (6th, 7.12); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (13th, 3.90); Earned Run Average (18th, 1.28); Shutouts (T-29th, 6); Walks Allowed Per Seven Innings (33rd, 1.28).
Bubba Nickles - Runs Batted In (T-20th, 52); Runs Scored (T-35th, 47); Total Bases (T-49th, 106).
Kelli Godin - Batting Average (7th, .457); On Base Percentage (37th, .510).
Holly Azevedo - Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (45th, 4.83).
Aaliyah Jordan - Doubles (T-30th, 16).
Taylor Pack - Slugging Percentage (43rd, .773).
Briana Perez - Runs Scored (T-12th, 55).
NEWS AND NOTES
Bruin opponents have scored runs in just 41 innings this season, and on 21 occasions, UCLA has scored in its next at-bat (on three occasions, opponents as the home team scored in the last at-bat of the game, not allowing the Bruins to answer) ... UCLA is averaging 9.11 runs per game and has posted four double-figure scoring contests in its nine Pac-12 road affairs, while averaging 5.67 runs per game and recording one double-figure scoring contest in its nine Pac-12 home matchups ... 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 Bruins have reached double figures in hits 21 times ... 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 12 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 12 comeback victories this season, recording their most recent one versus Oregon State on April 18 ... redshirt junior Rachel Garcia has recorded either a win (19) or a save (2) in all 21 of her pitching appearances, posting nine double-figure strikeout contests, including 12 on April 6 at Arizona State. Her season high in strikeouts is 15 at Hawaii (Feb. 8) and against No. 2 Oklahoma (Feb. 22). Garcia, who has 12 complete games in her 14 starts, has allowed zero or one earned run in 20 of her 21 games, and has not given up a home run since March 9 against BYU (70 2/3 innings) ... meanwhile at the plate, Garcia had back-to-back, three-RBI games against Oregon (April 14) and Oregon State (April 18), and has hits in six of her last seven. She has reached base in 21 of her last 22 games. 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) ... junior Bubba Nickles is riding a 13-game hitting streak, batting .548 (23-for-42) during this stretch with four home runs, 17 RBI, 14 runs and seven walks. Seven of her 13 games have gone for multiple hits, including three-hit contests three times. Nickles has hits in 39 of 45 games, has driven in runs in 30 contests and scored in 31. 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) ... senior Taylor Pack, who left Friday's game against Utah with an injury, did not play the final two contests of the series and is day-to-day, has hits in 10 of her last 12 games, batting .472 (17-for-36) during the stretch with four homers, 15 RBI, 10 runs and five doubles. Six of the 12 contests have been for multiple hits, four have been multi-RBI affairs and nine of her 17 hits have gone for extra bases. Eight of Pack's nine homers this season have come since March 8, including the first two-homer game of her career on April 5 at ASU ... redshirt sophomore Aaliyah Jordan has hits in 10 of her last 13 games, batting .410 (16-for-39) with four homers, 17 RBI and 16 runs. She posted the first two-homer contest of her career on April 6 at ASU and had a three-hit contest on Sunday versus Utah. 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. Jordan, who returned to the outfield last weekend, has hits in 33 of her last 40 games ... sophomore Briana Perez has a hit in five in a row and 16 of her last 18, batting .379 (22-for-58) during the stretch with 17 RBI, 23 runs and nine stolen bases. She was 5-for-9 (.556) last weekend against Utah with five RBI, five runs and a pair of homers. Perez's five home runs this season have all come since March 8. She leads the Bruins with 18 multiple-hit games and has scored a run in 35 of 44 contests, including 17 of her last 21 ... freshman Megan Faraimo has at least seven strikeouts in her last four games, totaling 32 in her last 21 innings. She had a scoreless innings streak of 26 1/3 from March 26-April 12. 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 eight 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 16 of her last 20, batting .449 (22-for-49) during the stretch with 19 runs scored, seven RBI and 10 stolen bases. She has scored a run in nine of her last 11. 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 ... sophomore Holly Azevedo has not allowed a run in 18 1/3 consecutive innings, striking out 13 and giving up only nine hits and two walks in her last five outings. She had back-to-back, complete-game shutouts in her last two appearances at Oregon State (April 20) and versus Utah (April 28). Taking out the April 7 game at ASU, Azevedo has 27 1/3 scoreless innings with 19 strikeouts. Her best game of the year came against Florida on Feb. 27 when she struck out eight in five innings ... 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 April 14 against Oregon. Quarles, who is 7-for-18 (.389) as a pinch-hitter with 11 RBI, started all three games at designated player last weekend against Utah. She went 4-for-6 (.667), going 2-for-2 with an RBI single and a solo homer on Saturday and 2-for-3 with a two-run single and an RBI single on Sunday ... freshman Colleen Sullivan had hits in four in a row, with hits in the last two of the OSU series and the first two of the Utah series, batting .455 (5-for-11) with three homers, six RBI and four runs. Even if she doesn't record a hit, Sullivan has been getting on base via the walk, having drawn a team-best 11 free passes in the month of April. She drew four walks in the April 6 game at ASU, just the seventh time a Bruin had accomplished that feat in one contest ... senior Brianna Tautalafua returned to the lineup against Utah, and in her last four contests is 5-for-12 (.417) with a homer and six RBI. She posted two hits and two RBI in the middle contest ... sophomore Kinsley Washington has hits in seven of her last 11 games. She belted her first career homer on April 7 at ASU ... senior Paige Halstead, who has hits in four of her last nine, has a .994 fielding percentage with just one error in 165 chances ... junior Jacqui Prober recorded the first two-hit game of her career on April 19 at OSU, singling twice and adding an RBI grounder ... 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 STANFORD CARDINAL
Stanford (31-13, 7-8 Pac-12) has been swept in its last two series at home against Arizona State last weekend and at Arizona the previous weekend. The Cardinal are hitting .287 as a team with 25 home runs and 38 stolen bases, averaging 5.11 runs per game. Five players are hitting at least .300, led by junior Teaghan Cowles' .403 average. She is first with 10 doubles and tied for first with six homers. Freshman Emily Schultz is second at a .321 average, while junior Kristina Inouye is third at .317 and first with 31 runs batted in. Senior Carolyn Lee and sophomore Maddy Dwyer have started 42 of 44 games in the circle. Dwyer is 12-6 with a 3.12 earned run average and 52 strikeouts in 92 innings, while Lee is 10-6 with a 3.53 ERA and 97 strikeouts in 125 innings. Additionally, junior Kiana Pancino is 7-0 with eight saves, a 2.54 ERA and 41 strikeouts in 49 2/3 innings.
THE SERIES: UCLA VERSUS STANFORD
UCLA leads the all-time series, 70-21, and has won 13 of the last 14. The most recent matchup resulted in a 4-1 Stanford victory last season at Easton Stadium to snap the Bruins' 13-game winning streak. Despite that setback, the Bruins have won the last five series versus the Cardinal, including two in a row at Stanford, where they have a record of 35-7.
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