Friday, May 17
Los Angeles, CA
8:00 PM
UCLA
vs
Weber State
Freshman Megan Faraimo is 17th in the nation in earned run average (1.31).
Photo by: Jazmine Sosa
No. 2 Bruins Open Los Angeles Regional on Friday Against Weber State
May 16, 2019 | Softball
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NCAA Los Angeles Regionalย โขย Friday, May 17 - Sunday, May 19ย โขย Easton Stadium
Friday, May 17
Game 1 โ Cal State Fullerton vs. Missouri โ 5:30 p.m. โ ESPNU
Game 2 โ Weber State vs. UCLA โ 8 p.m. โ ESPNU
Saturday, May 18
Game 3 โ Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner โ 3 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Game 4 โ Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser โ 5:30 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Game 5 โ Game 3 Loser vs. Game 4 Winner โ 8 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Sunday, May 19
Game 6 โ Game 3 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner โ 2 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Game 7 โ Game 6 Winner vs. Game 6 Loser (if necessary) โ 4:30 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
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SECOND-SEEDED BRUINS HOST LOS ANGELES REGIONAL
The Bruins, seeded No. 2 for the NCAA Championship, will host the Los Angeles Regional this weekend at Easton Stadium. UCLA opens Regional play on Friday against Weber State at 8 p.m. on ESPNU. The L.A. Regional continues on Saturday and Sunday. All games will be aired on the ESPN Family of Networks, while free live audio for all Bruin games will be available at UCLABruins.com.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The winner of the Los Angeles Regional will advance to next weekend's NCAA Super Regionals, and will take on the winner of the Ann Arbor Regional, which features No. 15-seed Michigan, James Madison, DePaul and Saint Francis (PA). Super Regionals will be a best 2-of-3 series, taking place at eight campus sites starting on Thursday, May 23.
BRUINS IN THE POLLS
UCLA checks in at No. 2 for the fifth week in a row in the latest Softball America poll, remains at No. 3 for the second straight week in the NFCA rankings and drops one spot to third in the USA Softball poll.ย
BRUINS IN NCAA REGIONAL PLAY
UCLA is making its tournament-record 35th appearance in the NCAA Softball Championship and holds a record of 209-58 (.783). During the Regional round, the Bruins are 97-15 (.866) and have gone undefeated 23 times. Since Regional play moved to a four-team format in 2005, the Bruins are 39-10 (.796), advancing to the Supers in '05-'06, '08-'10 and '14-'18. UCLA is hosting a Regional for the 24th time and is 63-6 (.913) in 23 previous Regionals at Easton and 79-11 (.878) overall during postseason games in Westwood. UCLA's past performances in the NCAA Championship are available on page 18 of this release.
GARCIA NAMED PAC-12 PLAYER AND PITCHER OF THE YEAR, FARAIMO FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR, EIGHT HONORED
Redshirt junior Rachel Garcia made history on May 8, as she became the first Pac-12 player ever to be named Conference Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year in the same season, while Megan Faraimo recorded Pac-12 Freshman of the Year honors to become the third UCLA player in a row to pick up the award. A total of eight were recognized on the All-Pac-12 Conference teams.
With the Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year award first being handed out in 1999, Garcia is just the third hurler in UCLA history to win the honor, joining Keira Goerl (2003) and Courtney Dale (1999). For Garcia, it is the second year in a row she has been named Pac-12 Player of the Year. She was also named First Team All-Pac-12 for the third straight season. Garcia's conference Player of the Year award is the 16th in Bruin history, joining Ally Carda (2014 and 2015), Megan Langenfeld (2010), Andrea Duran (2006), Natasha Watley (2003), Stacey Nuveman (1999, 2001, 2002), Lisa Fernandez (1991, 1992, 1993) and Lisa Longaker (1987, 1988, 1990).
Faraimo follows in the footsteps of Garcia (2017) and redshirt sophomore Aaliyah Jordan (2018) in terms of winning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. She is the eighth Bruin to earn Pac-10/12 Newcomer or Freshman of the Year honors, joining Tanya Harding (1995), Julie Adams (1996), Nuveman (1997), Anjelica Selden (2005) and Stephany LaRosa (2012).
Joining Garcia and Faraimo on the All-Pac-12 First Team were Jordan, senior Taylor Pack, junior Bubba Nickles, sophomore Briana Perez and freshman Kelli Godin. Nickles recorded her third All-Pac-12 award and her first First Team honor, Jordan and Perez were named First Team for the second year in a row and Pack notched her initial Pac-12 First Team accolade. Godin and Perez were also named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team, while Faraimo, Godin and Colleen Sullivan were recognized on the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.
RACHEL GARCIA NAMED A TOP 10 FINALIST FOR USA SOFTBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
On the same day she was recognized as Pac-12 Conference Player and Pitcher of the Year, redshirt junior Rachel Garcia was named a Top 10 finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award on May 8.
Joining Garcia, the winner of last year's award, as finalists are Abbey Cheek (Kentucky), Mia Davidson (Mississippi State), Alyssa DiCarlo (Georgia), Megan Good (James Madison), G Juarez (Oklahoma), Kayla Konwent (Wisconsin), Amanda Lorenz (Florida), Nicole Newman (Drake) and Sydney Romero (Oklahoma).
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 Top 3 finalists will be announced on May 22, while the 2019 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year will be announced on May 28 in Oklahoma City.
FARAIMO, GODIN NAMED TOP 10 FINALISTS FOR NFCA FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
A pair of Bruins, freshmen Megan Faraimo and Kelli Godin, have been named Top 10 finalists for the 2019 Schutt Sports/NFCA Freshman of the Year award, as announced on May 9.
UCLA is the only school to have two players on the list. Joining Faraimo and Godin as Top 10 finalists are Kelsey Bennett (Virginia Tech), Lexie Blair (Michigan), Natalie DenHartog (Minnesota), Montana Fouts (Alabama), Grace Green (Oklahoma), Shealyn O'Leary (Texas), Ashley Rogers (Tennessee) and Danielle Williams (Northwestern).
The Top 3 finalists will be announced on May 21, while 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.
BRIANA PEREZ NAMED COSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT
Sophomore Briana Perez was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District Softball First Team on May 9, as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).ย
The Academic All-District Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The Google Cloud Academic All-America program separately recognizes softball honorees in four divisions, including NCAA Division I.
First team honorees advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced in June.
Perez, a human biology major, is the first Bruin to be named CoSIDA Academic All-District since 2010 (Samantha Camuso).
BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS (THROUGH MAY 12)
Team Rankings - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (2nd, 5.77); Earned Run Average (3rd, 1.38); Batting Average (4th, .344); On Base Percentage (6th, .420); Runs Per Game (6th, 7.00); Slugging (8th, .547); Shutouts (T-10th, 18); Fielding Percentage (25th, .973); Home Runs (T-33rd, 60); Doubles (T-43rd, 78).
Rachel Garcia - Earned Run Average (4th, 0.98); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (4th, 7.96); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (15th, 4.00); Strikeouts (T-29th, 207); Wins (T-40th, 20); Walks Allowed Per 7 Innings (42nd, 1.33); Shutouts (T-42nd, 6).
Megan Faraimo - Earned Run Average (17th, 1.31); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (18th, 4.06); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (18th, 5.83); Shutouts (T-42nd, 6).
Bubba Nickles - Runs Batted In (T-16th, 58); Runs Scored (T-29th, 53); Total Bases (T-40th, 119); Hits (T-48th, 68).
Kelli Godin - Batting Average (21st, .426).
Aaliyah Jordan - Doubles (T-19th, 18).
Briana Perez - Runs Scored (T-20th, 57).
NEWS AND NOTES
Bruin opponents have scored runs in just 51 innings this season, and on 24 occasions, UCLA has scored in its next at-bat (on four 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 Bruins have reached double figures in hits 23 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' largest deficit this season has been three, which has happened in four games. It occurred twice in the last two contests of the Arizona series. UCLA has come back to win in three of those four games, including last Friday's victory. The Bruins had an early 3-0 deficit at Long Beach State on March 10 before winning in extra innings, and trailed 4-1 to Kentucky on Feb. 23 before scoring 11 unanswered runs to mercy the Wildcats ... the Bruins have 13 comeback victories this season, recording their most recent one last Friday against Arizona ... redshirt junior Rachel Garcia tied a season high with 15 strikeouts against Arizona last Thursday. She also had 15 Ks versus Hawaii on Feb. 8 and Oklahoma on Feb. 22. Garcia has 10 double-figure strikeout contests this season, having earned a win (20) or a save (3) in 23 of her 25 appearances ... meanwhile at the plate, Garcia has hits in 12 of her last 13 games, batting .400 (16-for-40) with two homers, 10 RBI and 11 runs. She drove in a career-high six at Washington on March 17, and had a stretch of eight consecutive hits against Washington (March 16-17), Saint Mary's (March 24) and CSUN (March 24) ... with a sixth-inning homer on Saturday against Arizona, junior Bubba Nickles extended her hitting streak to 19 games. She is batting .500 (32-for-64) during the streak with five homers, 23 RBI and 20 runs. Ten of her 19 games have gone for multiple hits, including three-hit contests three times. Nickles compiled a 24-game hitting streak, dating back to last season, 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). Sophomore Briana Perez is the only other Bruin to reach at least 20 in a hitting streak, getting to 21 in her freshman campaign a year ago ... senior Taylor Pack has hits in 13 of her last 18 games, batting .388 (21-for-54) during the stretch with five homers, 17 RBI, 11 runs and five doubles. Seven of the 18 contests have been for multiple hits, five have been multi-RBI affairs and 10 of her 21 hits have gone for extra bases. Nine of Pack's 10 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 14 of her last 19 games, batting .382 (21-for-55) with five homers, 21 RBI and 17 runs. She posted the first two-homer contest of her career on April 6 at ASU and had a three-hit contest on April 28 versus Utah. The team leader in doubles with 18 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 against Utah, has 10 extra-base hits in her last 19 games ... sophomore Briana Perez has hits in 10 of her last 11, batting .343 (12-for-35) with two homers, six RBI and seven runs. She also has hits in 21 of her last 24. Perez had a pair of homers in the Utah series, and all five of her long balls this season have come since March 8 ... freshman Megan Faraimo has struck out 13 in her last 9 2/3 innings, allowing just one run and four hits in her last three outings. 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 19 of her last 26, batting .397 (25-for-63) during the stretch with 20 runs scored, seven RBI and 10 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 ... sophomore Holly Azevedo had a stretch of 19 2/3 consecutive shutout innings from April 12-May 3, striking out 14 and giving up only 10 hits and three walks in those six outings. She had back-to-back, complete-game shutouts at Oregon State (April 20) and versus Utah (April 28). Azevedo has allowed zero or one run in 10 of her last 13 appearances. Her best game of the year came against Florida on Feb. 27 when she struck out eight in five innings ... senior Brianna Tautalafua returned to the lineup against Utah, and in her last seven contests is 10-for-30 (.333) with two homers and eight RBI. She has a hit in four of her last five ... sophomore Kinsley Washington also has hits in four of her last five, including a two-hit contest in Friday's win over Arizona. She belted her first career homer on April 7 at ASU ... freshman Colleen Sullivan had 13 walks during Pac-12 play, which ranked second on the team. She drew four walks in the April 6 game at ASU, just the seventh time a Bruin had accomplished that feat in one contest ... 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 is 7-for-20 (.350) as a pinch-hitter with 11 RBI ... senior Paige Halstead has a .995 fielding percentage with just one error in 205 chances. She had a pair of singles on Saturday against Arizona ... 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.
BRUINS VERSUS THE LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FIELD
UCLA holds a 7-1 all-time series lead against Weber State. The teams met at Easton Stadium in 2017 in a doubleheader won by the Bruins (4-1 and 22-1 in five innings). Prior to the 2017 meeting, the two teams hadn't played since 1982 ... UCLA has faced Missouri and Cal State Fullerton this season. The Bruins knocked off Missouri, 11-3 in six innings, on Feb. 22 in Cathedral City, Calif. to improve to 17-3 all-time versus the Tigers. On March 26 at Easton, UCLA defeated Fullerton, 5-1, to move to 51-34-1 all-time against the Titans. Box scores from those two games can be found on pages 16 and 17 of this release ... the Bruins also have a history with both teams in the NCAA Championship. UCLA is 6-2 versus Missouri. The Bruins swept the 2015 Super Regional at Easton Stadium (7-4 and 10-6) to get revenge for losing the 2009 Super in Westwood (Missouri won games one - 2-1 - and three - 9-1 in 5 innings, UCLA won game two - 5-2). UCLA also defeated Missouri in Regionals in 1999 (12-5 at UCLA), at the WCWS in 1991 (5-0 in OKC) and at the WCWS in 1983 (1-0 in Omaha) ... the Bruins are 17-5 in the NCAA Championship against Cal State Fullerton. The teams met three times in last year's Regional, as the Titans won 3-2 in nine innings in the winner's bracket Saturday game. UCLA rebounded with 3-0 and 6-4 victories on Championship Sunday to advance to Supers. This marks the fourth year in a row in which Fullerton has traveled to UCLA for the postseason. The Bruins won 9-1 on Championship Sunday in 2017 and defeated the Titans on back-to-back days (3-2 and 5-4) in 2016.
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NCAA Los Angeles Regionalย โขย Friday, May 17 - Sunday, May 19ย โขย Easton Stadium
Friday, May 17
Game 1 โ Cal State Fullerton vs. Missouri โ 5:30 p.m. โ ESPNU
Game 2 โ Weber State vs. UCLA โ 8 p.m. โ ESPNU
Saturday, May 18
Game 3 โ Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner โ 3 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Game 4 โ Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser โ 5:30 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Game 5 โ Game 3 Loser vs. Game 4 Winner โ 8 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Sunday, May 19
Game 6 โ Game 3 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner โ 2 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Game 7 โ Game 6 Winner vs. Game 6 Loser (if necessary) โ 4:30 p.m. โ ESPN Family of Networks
Live Stats for All Games
Free Live Audio for UCLA Games
Tickets
SECOND-SEEDED BRUINS HOST LOS ANGELES REGIONAL
The Bruins, seeded No. 2 for the NCAA Championship, will host the Los Angeles Regional this weekend at Easton Stadium. UCLA opens Regional play on Friday against Weber State at 8 p.m. on ESPNU. The L.A. Regional continues on Saturday and Sunday. All games will be aired on the ESPN Family of Networks, while free live audio for all Bruin games will be available at UCLABruins.com.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The winner of the Los Angeles Regional will advance to next weekend's NCAA Super Regionals, and will take on the winner of the Ann Arbor Regional, which features No. 15-seed Michigan, James Madison, DePaul and Saint Francis (PA). Super Regionals will be a best 2-of-3 series, taking place at eight campus sites starting on Thursday, May 23.
BRUINS IN THE POLLS
UCLA checks in at No. 2 for the fifth week in a row in the latest Softball America poll, remains at No. 3 for the second straight week in the NFCA rankings and drops one spot to third in the USA Softball poll.ย
BRUINS IN NCAA REGIONAL PLAY
UCLA is making its tournament-record 35th appearance in the NCAA Softball Championship and holds a record of 209-58 (.783). During the Regional round, the Bruins are 97-15 (.866) and have gone undefeated 23 times. Since Regional play moved to a four-team format in 2005, the Bruins are 39-10 (.796), advancing to the Supers in '05-'06, '08-'10 and '14-'18. UCLA is hosting a Regional for the 24th time and is 63-6 (.913) in 23 previous Regionals at Easton and 79-11 (.878) overall during postseason games in Westwood. UCLA's past performances in the NCAA Championship are available on page 18 of this release.
GARCIA NAMED PAC-12 PLAYER AND PITCHER OF THE YEAR, FARAIMO FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR, EIGHT HONORED
Redshirt junior Rachel Garcia made history on May 8, as she became the first Pac-12 player ever to be named Conference Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year in the same season, while Megan Faraimo recorded Pac-12 Freshman of the Year honors to become the third UCLA player in a row to pick up the award. A total of eight were recognized on the All-Pac-12 Conference teams.
With the Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year award first being handed out in 1999, Garcia is just the third hurler in UCLA history to win the honor, joining Keira Goerl (2003) and Courtney Dale (1999). For Garcia, it is the second year in a row she has been named Pac-12 Player of the Year. She was also named First Team All-Pac-12 for the third straight season. Garcia's conference Player of the Year award is the 16th in Bruin history, joining Ally Carda (2014 and 2015), Megan Langenfeld (2010), Andrea Duran (2006), Natasha Watley (2003), Stacey Nuveman (1999, 2001, 2002), Lisa Fernandez (1991, 1992, 1993) and Lisa Longaker (1987, 1988, 1990).
Faraimo follows in the footsteps of Garcia (2017) and redshirt sophomore Aaliyah Jordan (2018) in terms of winning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. She is the eighth Bruin to earn Pac-10/12 Newcomer or Freshman of the Year honors, joining Tanya Harding (1995), Julie Adams (1996), Nuveman (1997), Anjelica Selden (2005) and Stephany LaRosa (2012).
Joining Garcia and Faraimo on the All-Pac-12 First Team were Jordan, senior Taylor Pack, junior Bubba Nickles, sophomore Briana Perez and freshman Kelli Godin. Nickles recorded her third All-Pac-12 award and her first First Team honor, Jordan and Perez were named First Team for the second year in a row and Pack notched her initial Pac-12 First Team accolade. Godin and Perez were also named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team, while Faraimo, Godin and Colleen Sullivan were recognized on the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.
RACHEL GARCIA NAMED A TOP 10 FINALIST FOR USA SOFTBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
On the same day she was recognized as Pac-12 Conference Player and Pitcher of the Year, redshirt junior Rachel Garcia was named a Top 10 finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award on May 8.
Joining Garcia, the winner of last year's award, as finalists are Abbey Cheek (Kentucky), Mia Davidson (Mississippi State), Alyssa DiCarlo (Georgia), Megan Good (James Madison), G Juarez (Oklahoma), Kayla Konwent (Wisconsin), Amanda Lorenz (Florida), Nicole Newman (Drake) and Sydney Romero (Oklahoma).
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 Top 3 finalists will be announced on May 22, while the 2019 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year will be announced on May 28 in Oklahoma City.
FARAIMO, GODIN NAMED TOP 10 FINALISTS FOR NFCA FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
A pair of Bruins, freshmen Megan Faraimo and Kelli Godin, have been named Top 10 finalists for the 2019 Schutt Sports/NFCA Freshman of the Year award, as announced on May 9.
UCLA is the only school to have two players on the list. Joining Faraimo and Godin as Top 10 finalists are Kelsey Bennett (Virginia Tech), Lexie Blair (Michigan), Natalie DenHartog (Minnesota), Montana Fouts (Alabama), Grace Green (Oklahoma), Shealyn O'Leary (Texas), Ashley Rogers (Tennessee) and Danielle Williams (Northwestern).
The Top 3 finalists will be announced on May 21, while 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.
BRIANA PEREZ NAMED COSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT
Sophomore Briana Perez was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District Softball First Team on May 9, as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).ย
The Academic All-District Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The Google Cloud Academic All-America program separately recognizes softball honorees in four divisions, including NCAA Division I.
First team honorees advance to the Google Cloud Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced in June.
Perez, a human biology major, is the first Bruin to be named CoSIDA Academic All-District since 2010 (Samantha Camuso).
BRUINS IN THE NATIONAL RANKINGS (THROUGH MAY 12)
Team Rankings - Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (2nd, 5.77); Earned Run Average (3rd, 1.38); Batting Average (4th, .344); On Base Percentage (6th, .420); Runs Per Game (6th, 7.00); Slugging (8th, .547); Shutouts (T-10th, 18); Fielding Percentage (25th, .973); Home Runs (T-33rd, 60); Doubles (T-43rd, 78).
Rachel Garcia - Earned Run Average (4th, 0.98); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (4th, 7.96); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (15th, 4.00); Strikeouts (T-29th, 207); Wins (T-40th, 20); Walks Allowed Per 7 Innings (42nd, 1.33); Shutouts (T-42nd, 6).
Megan Faraimo - Earned Run Average (17th, 1.31); Hits Allowed Per Seven Innings (18th, 4.06); Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio (18th, 5.83); Shutouts (T-42nd, 6).
Bubba Nickles - Runs Batted In (T-16th, 58); Runs Scored (T-29th, 53); Total Bases (T-40th, 119); Hits (T-48th, 68).
Kelli Godin - Batting Average (21st, .426).
Aaliyah Jordan - Doubles (T-19th, 18).
Briana Perez - Runs Scored (T-20th, 57).
NEWS AND NOTES
Bruin opponents have scored runs in just 51 innings this season, and on 24 occasions, UCLA has scored in its next at-bat (on four 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 Bruins have reached double figures in hits 23 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' largest deficit this season has been three, which has happened in four games. It occurred twice in the last two contests of the Arizona series. UCLA has come back to win in three of those four games, including last Friday's victory. The Bruins had an early 3-0 deficit at Long Beach State on March 10 before winning in extra innings, and trailed 4-1 to Kentucky on Feb. 23 before scoring 11 unanswered runs to mercy the Wildcats ... the Bruins have 13 comeback victories this season, recording their most recent one last Friday against Arizona ... redshirt junior Rachel Garcia tied a season high with 15 strikeouts against Arizona last Thursday. She also had 15 Ks versus Hawaii on Feb. 8 and Oklahoma on Feb. 22. Garcia has 10 double-figure strikeout contests this season, having earned a win (20) or a save (3) in 23 of her 25 appearances ... meanwhile at the plate, Garcia has hits in 12 of her last 13 games, batting .400 (16-for-40) with two homers, 10 RBI and 11 runs. She drove in a career-high six at Washington on March 17, and had a stretch of eight consecutive hits against Washington (March 16-17), Saint Mary's (March 24) and CSUN (March 24) ... with a sixth-inning homer on Saturday against Arizona, junior Bubba Nickles extended her hitting streak to 19 games. She is batting .500 (32-for-64) during the streak with five homers, 23 RBI and 20 runs. Ten of her 19 games have gone for multiple hits, including three-hit contests three times. Nickles compiled a 24-game hitting streak, dating back to last season, 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). Sophomore Briana Perez is the only other Bruin to reach at least 20 in a hitting streak, getting to 21 in her freshman campaign a year ago ... senior Taylor Pack has hits in 13 of her last 18 games, batting .388 (21-for-54) during the stretch with five homers, 17 RBI, 11 runs and five doubles. Seven of the 18 contests have been for multiple hits, five have been multi-RBI affairs and 10 of her 21 hits have gone for extra bases. Nine of Pack's 10 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 14 of her last 19 games, batting .382 (21-for-55) with five homers, 21 RBI and 17 runs. She posted the first two-homer contest of her career on April 6 at ASU and had a three-hit contest on April 28 versus Utah. The team leader in doubles with 18 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 against Utah, has 10 extra-base hits in her last 19 games ... sophomore Briana Perez has hits in 10 of her last 11, batting .343 (12-for-35) with two homers, six RBI and seven runs. She also has hits in 21 of her last 24. Perez had a pair of homers in the Utah series, and all five of her long balls this season have come since March 8 ... freshman Megan Faraimo has struck out 13 in her last 9 2/3 innings, allowing just one run and four hits in her last three outings. 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 19 of her last 26, batting .397 (25-for-63) during the stretch with 20 runs scored, seven RBI and 10 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 ... sophomore Holly Azevedo had a stretch of 19 2/3 consecutive shutout innings from April 12-May 3, striking out 14 and giving up only 10 hits and three walks in those six outings. She had back-to-back, complete-game shutouts at Oregon State (April 20) and versus Utah (April 28). Azevedo has allowed zero or one run in 10 of her last 13 appearances. Her best game of the year came against Florida on Feb. 27 when she struck out eight in five innings ... senior Brianna Tautalafua returned to the lineup against Utah, and in her last seven contests is 10-for-30 (.333) with two homers and eight RBI. She has a hit in four of her last five ... sophomore Kinsley Washington also has hits in four of her last five, including a two-hit contest in Friday's win over Arizona. She belted her first career homer on April 7 at ASU ... freshman Colleen Sullivan had 13 walks during Pac-12 play, which ranked second on the team. She drew four walks in the April 6 game at ASU, just the seventh time a Bruin had accomplished that feat in one contest ... 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 is 7-for-20 (.350) as a pinch-hitter with 11 RBI ... senior Paige Halstead has a .995 fielding percentage with just one error in 205 chances. She had a pair of singles on Saturday against Arizona ... 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.
BRUINS VERSUS THE LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FIELD
UCLA holds a 7-1 all-time series lead against Weber State. The teams met at Easton Stadium in 2017 in a doubleheader won by the Bruins (4-1 and 22-1 in five innings). Prior to the 2017 meeting, the two teams hadn't played since 1982 ... UCLA has faced Missouri and Cal State Fullerton this season. The Bruins knocked off Missouri, 11-3 in six innings, on Feb. 22 in Cathedral City, Calif. to improve to 17-3 all-time versus the Tigers. On March 26 at Easton, UCLA defeated Fullerton, 5-1, to move to 51-34-1 all-time against the Titans. Box scores from those two games can be found on pages 16 and 17 of this release ... the Bruins also have a history with both teams in the NCAA Championship. UCLA is 6-2 versus Missouri. The Bruins swept the 2015 Super Regional at Easton Stadium (7-4 and 10-6) to get revenge for losing the 2009 Super in Westwood (Missouri won games one - 2-1 - and three - 9-1 in 5 innings, UCLA won game two - 5-2). UCLA also defeated Missouri in Regionals in 1999 (12-5 at UCLA), at the WCWS in 1991 (5-0 in OKC) and at the WCWS in 1983 (1-0 in Omaha) ... the Bruins are 17-5 in the NCAA Championship against Cal State Fullerton. The teams met three times in last year's Regional, as the Titans won 3-2 in nine innings in the winner's bracket Saturday game. UCLA rebounded with 3-0 and 6-4 victories on Championship Sunday to advance to Supers. This marks the fourth year in a row in which Fullerton has traveled to UCLA for the postseason. The Bruins won 9-1 on Championship Sunday in 2017 and defeated the Titans on back-to-back days (3-2 and 5-4) in 2016.
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