Friday, March 24
Eugene, OR
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UCLA
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Maya Brady is one of just two players in the country with at least a .450 batting average, 10 home runs and 35 runs batted in.
Photo by: Ross Turteltaub
No. 3 Bruins Continue Pac-12 Play at Oregon
March 23, 2023 | Softball
LOS ANGELES โ The No. 3 UCLA softball team goes for its third series win to open the Pac-12 schedule this weekend, taking on No. 19 Oregon for three games at Jane Sanders Stadium in Eugene, Ore. The Bruins (27-3, 4-2) and Ducks (19-8, 2-4) open play on Friday, March 24, at 6 p.m. (PT). Game times for Saturday and Sunday are set for 2 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively. Each contest can be watched on the Pac-12 Network.
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Last Time Out
After dropping game one to Washington, UCLA rode the arm of Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week Megan Faraimo to back-to-back top-10 wins to take the series.
Game 1 (L, 4-3): Freshman Jordan Woolery went 3-for-4 with a double in the loss. A three-run sixth inning for the Huskies capped by a Baylee Klingler home run gave Washington the lead for the remainder of the game.
Game 2 (W, 4-0): Faraimo hurled a two-hit shutout โ her fifth of the year โ to even the series. Woolery put UCLA on the board in the first inning, recording UCLA's fourth consecutive hit to open the game with a 2-RBI single. Woolery later homered in the third to score each of the Bruins' first three runs of the game.
Game 3 (W, 10-2): Maya Brady went 3-for-4 with three RBI and recorded her third multi-homer game of the season. Anna Vines and Kelli Godin at the bottom of UCLA's lineup went a combined 6-for-6 and reached base in all seven plate appearances. Godin's final hit of the day was a mercy-rule walk-off single to left field.
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Faraimo Named National, Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week
Redshirt senior Megan Faraimo was named the NFCA National Player of the Week on Tuesday after leading the Bruins to both of their wins over No. 10 Washington last weekend. This marks the second time in Faraimo's career she has received the major weekly award (first: Feb. 18, 2020). The Oceanside, Calif. native totaled 10 strikeouts and 13.0 innings of shutout ball across her three appearances. This is UCLA's second NFCA weekly award of 2023. Maya Brady was named the NFCA National Player of the Week on Feb. 24.
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Faraimo was dominant in her game two start, allowing just three baserunners in her two-hit shutout of the Huskies on March 18. In game three, Faraimo was called upon in relief in the second inning and kept Washington off the scoreboard for the remainder of the game. After surrendering a triple to the very first batter she faced, Faraimo did not allow another runner to reach scoring position for the rest of her outing.
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Faraimo now leads the Pac-12 with 13 wins and 121 strikeouts this season. Her team-leading 1.36 earned run average ranks fourth in the conference.
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UCLA has hauled in Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week honors in back-to-back weeks now after Yanez received the honor on March 13 for leading the Bruins to two victories over California.
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Brady: Player of the Year Candidate
Maya Brady is the one of two players in the country (and the only player among the Power 5 conferences) to have at least a .450 batting average, 10 home runs and 35 runs batted in this season. She leads the team and is tied for first in the Pac-12 with 42 hits. Brady paces the conference in total bases (84) and extra-base hits (20), and ranks second in batting average (.467), RBI (35), home runs (10) and slugging percentage (.933).
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Brady is coming off her third multi-homer game of the season after leaving the yard twice versus Washington on Sunday. (San Diego - Feb. 12; Fresno State - March 3), stretching her career total to five. She joins a pantheon of Bruin sluggers, becoming just the seventh player in program history to record at least five multi-homer games in their career.
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Brady is hitting for a team-leading .516 average (16-for-31) with runners in scoring position this season.
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Brady Shatters 24-Year-Old Record
Maya Brady broke a 24-year-old record during UCLA's Stacy Winsberg Memorial Tournament. Brady recorded 11 consecutive base hits across four games, breaking the mark of 10 consecutive hits formerly held by UCLA legends Lisa Fernandez (March 1993) and Stacey Nuveman (Feb. 1999). In total, Brady opened the first week of 2023 going 13-for-16 with 13 RBI and four home runs to earn her NFCA Player of the Week honors for the first time in her career.
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KG Back to Her Old Ways
Redshirt senior Kelli Godin, a former Pac-12 Batting Champion as a freshman in 2019, ranks third on the team with a .389 batting average and is coming off her best performance of the season. In game three against Washington, Godin went 3-for-3 at the bottom of the Bruins' lineup and knocked in the game-winning RBI to mercy-rule walk-off the Huskies.
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Dual Threat
Maya Brady leads UCLA in both slugging (.933) and is tied for the lead in stolen bases (5). The last time a Bruin led the team in both slugging percentage and stolen bases in a single season was Katie Schroeder in 2009 (.684 SLG / 19 SB).
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Chef Megan Cookin'
Megan Grant leads all freshmen in the country with 34 runs batted in this season after her two-homer weekend against Washington. The 34 RBI also rank third in the conference. She leads UCLA with 10 multi-RBI games this season. The prized 2022 recruit has hit third our fourth in the UCLA batting lineup in 29 of 30 games this season.
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Freshman Slugging Duo
Joining Grant at the top of the lineup is fellow freshman slugger Jordan Woolery who is hitting for a .386 average in 2023. The Walnut Creek, Calif. native is the Bruins' everyday first baseman and ranks third on the team with 26 runs batted in. Woolery made a statement earlier this season, hitting her first career home run off Alabama's prized ace Montana Fouts for a grand slam on Feb. 17.
Grant and Woolery homered in the third inning of game two versus Washington on March 18 (W, 4-0). The duo was responsible for driving in all of UCLA's four runs that game.
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Back to Her Roots
Maya Brady is now the Bruins' everyday shortstop due to a left shoulder injury sustained by utility Seneca Curo. Brady grew up playing the position with her travel ball team OC Batbusters Stith.
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Consistency Behind the Dish
Sharlize Palacios has been an x-factor as UCLA's primary starting catcher. So far this season, the Arizona transfer has thrown out five of 11 runners attempting to steal. She has caught in eight of UCLA's last nine games.
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Pola Setting the Table
Sophomore Savannah Pola has hit leadoff in all but two of UCLA's 30 games this season. An All-Pac-12 Freshman selection last season, Pola ranks second on the squad with a .398 batting average and third with seven doubles in 2023. When batting leadoff to begin any inning, Pola has reached in 23 of 43 opportunities (.535 percentage).
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Just Get on the Board
UCLA is 18-0 when scoring in the first inning and is 22-0 when it scores first this season.
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Big Baddie Brookie
Brooke Yanez, the left-handed transfer pitcher from Oregon has dominated in her last ride as a Bruin. Yanez owns a 9-1 record and ranks third in the Pac-12 with a .164 opposing batting average and fifth with a 1.43 earned run average.
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Grab Some Pine
UCLA's pitching staff ranks fourth in the country in strikeout rate, sending batters down on strikes 31.5 percent of the time. Individually, Faraimo ranks seventh with a 42.6 strikeout rate. As a team, UCLA paces the conference with 231 strikeouts this season.
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Enter Sandwoman
Faraimo has been utilized in a reliever role frequently this season. Five of her 13 winning decisions have come in relief. Faraimo has thrown two no-hitters this season, improving her career total to seven solo no-hitters. Most recently, Faraimo no-hit No. 3 Florida on Feb. 23, marking the first time a Bruin pitcher no-hit a top-3 opponent since March 28, 2003, when Keira Goerl kept No. 2 Stanford out of the hit column. It was Faraimo's first no-no against a ranked opponent.
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Where the Bruins Stack Up Nationally (entering week seven)
โข In the circle, Megan Faraimo is tied for fifth with 13 wins and is tenth with 121 strikeouts
โข Megan Grant leads all freshmen in the nation with 34 RBI.
โข Maya Brady ranks first in the nation in total bases (84), and eighth in both RBI (35)and slugging percentage (.933).
โข As as team, UCLA ranks eighth in the nation with 266 hits and a .343 batting average.
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Climbing UCLA's All-Time Rankings
โข With her four stolen bases at the Judi Garman Classic, Kelli Godin moved into third place on UCLA's all-time stolen bases list with 65 on 73 attempts. She passed Allexis Bennett (2013-16) who had 61 stolen bases. Godin needs eight more to tie her former teammate Briana Perez for second on the list (73).
โข Megan Faraimo's 13 wins in 2023 pushes her career record to 85-14. She is currently ninth on UCLA's career wins list. Faraimo passed Ally Carda (2012-15) and former teammate Rachel Garcia (2017-21) on the Bruins' career strikeouts list earlier this season. Faraimo has now struck out 889 batters and is 63 shy of tying Debbie Doom (1982-85) for third all-time with 952.
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Last Time Out
After dropping game one to Washington, UCLA rode the arm of Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week Megan Faraimo to back-to-back top-10 wins to take the series.
Game 1 (L, 4-3): Freshman Jordan Woolery went 3-for-4 with a double in the loss. A three-run sixth inning for the Huskies capped by a Baylee Klingler home run gave Washington the lead for the remainder of the game.
Game 2 (W, 4-0): Faraimo hurled a two-hit shutout โ her fifth of the year โ to even the series. Woolery put UCLA on the board in the first inning, recording UCLA's fourth consecutive hit to open the game with a 2-RBI single. Woolery later homered in the third to score each of the Bruins' first three runs of the game.
Game 3 (W, 10-2): Maya Brady went 3-for-4 with three RBI and recorded her third multi-homer game of the season. Anna Vines and Kelli Godin at the bottom of UCLA's lineup went a combined 6-for-6 and reached base in all seven plate appearances. Godin's final hit of the day was a mercy-rule walk-off single to left field.
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Faraimo Named National, Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week
Redshirt senior Megan Faraimo was named the NFCA National Player of the Week on Tuesday after leading the Bruins to both of their wins over No. 10 Washington last weekend. This marks the second time in Faraimo's career she has received the major weekly award (first: Feb. 18, 2020). The Oceanside, Calif. native totaled 10 strikeouts and 13.0 innings of shutout ball across her three appearances. This is UCLA's second NFCA weekly award of 2023. Maya Brady was named the NFCA National Player of the Week on Feb. 24.
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Faraimo was dominant in her game two start, allowing just three baserunners in her two-hit shutout of the Huskies on March 18. In game three, Faraimo was called upon in relief in the second inning and kept Washington off the scoreboard for the remainder of the game. After surrendering a triple to the very first batter she faced, Faraimo did not allow another runner to reach scoring position for the rest of her outing.
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Faraimo now leads the Pac-12 with 13 wins and 121 strikeouts this season. Her team-leading 1.36 earned run average ranks fourth in the conference.
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UCLA has hauled in Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week honors in back-to-back weeks now after Yanez received the honor on March 13 for leading the Bruins to two victories over California.
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Brady: Player of the Year Candidate
Maya Brady is the one of two players in the country (and the only player among the Power 5 conferences) to have at least a .450 batting average, 10 home runs and 35 runs batted in this season. She leads the team and is tied for first in the Pac-12 with 42 hits. Brady paces the conference in total bases (84) and extra-base hits (20), and ranks second in batting average (.467), RBI (35), home runs (10) and slugging percentage (.933).
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Brady is coming off her third multi-homer game of the season after leaving the yard twice versus Washington on Sunday. (San Diego - Feb. 12; Fresno State - March 3), stretching her career total to five. She joins a pantheon of Bruin sluggers, becoming just the seventh player in program history to record at least five multi-homer games in their career.
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Brady is hitting for a team-leading .516 average (16-for-31) with runners in scoring position this season.
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Brady Shatters 24-Year-Old Record
Maya Brady broke a 24-year-old record during UCLA's Stacy Winsberg Memorial Tournament. Brady recorded 11 consecutive base hits across four games, breaking the mark of 10 consecutive hits formerly held by UCLA legends Lisa Fernandez (March 1993) and Stacey Nuveman (Feb. 1999). In total, Brady opened the first week of 2023 going 13-for-16 with 13 RBI and four home runs to earn her NFCA Player of the Week honors for the first time in her career.
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KG Back to Her Old Ways
Redshirt senior Kelli Godin, a former Pac-12 Batting Champion as a freshman in 2019, ranks third on the team with a .389 batting average and is coming off her best performance of the season. In game three against Washington, Godin went 3-for-3 at the bottom of the Bruins' lineup and knocked in the game-winning RBI to mercy-rule walk-off the Huskies.
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Dual Threat
Maya Brady leads UCLA in both slugging (.933) and is tied for the lead in stolen bases (5). The last time a Bruin led the team in both slugging percentage and stolen bases in a single season was Katie Schroeder in 2009 (.684 SLG / 19 SB).
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Chef Megan Cookin'
Megan Grant leads all freshmen in the country with 34 runs batted in this season after her two-homer weekend against Washington. The 34 RBI also rank third in the conference. She leads UCLA with 10 multi-RBI games this season. The prized 2022 recruit has hit third our fourth in the UCLA batting lineup in 29 of 30 games this season.
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Freshman Slugging Duo
Joining Grant at the top of the lineup is fellow freshman slugger Jordan Woolery who is hitting for a .386 average in 2023. The Walnut Creek, Calif. native is the Bruins' everyday first baseman and ranks third on the team with 26 runs batted in. Woolery made a statement earlier this season, hitting her first career home run off Alabama's prized ace Montana Fouts for a grand slam on Feb. 17.
Grant and Woolery homered in the third inning of game two versus Washington on March 18 (W, 4-0). The duo was responsible for driving in all of UCLA's four runs that game.
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Back to Her Roots
Maya Brady is now the Bruins' everyday shortstop due to a left shoulder injury sustained by utility Seneca Curo. Brady grew up playing the position with her travel ball team OC Batbusters Stith.
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Consistency Behind the Dish
Sharlize Palacios has been an x-factor as UCLA's primary starting catcher. So far this season, the Arizona transfer has thrown out five of 11 runners attempting to steal. She has caught in eight of UCLA's last nine games.
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Pola Setting the Table
Sophomore Savannah Pola has hit leadoff in all but two of UCLA's 30 games this season. An All-Pac-12 Freshman selection last season, Pola ranks second on the squad with a .398 batting average and third with seven doubles in 2023. When batting leadoff to begin any inning, Pola has reached in 23 of 43 opportunities (.535 percentage).
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Just Get on the Board
UCLA is 18-0 when scoring in the first inning and is 22-0 when it scores first this season.
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Big Baddie Brookie
Brooke Yanez, the left-handed transfer pitcher from Oregon has dominated in her last ride as a Bruin. Yanez owns a 9-1 record and ranks third in the Pac-12 with a .164 opposing batting average and fifth with a 1.43 earned run average.
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Grab Some Pine
UCLA's pitching staff ranks fourth in the country in strikeout rate, sending batters down on strikes 31.5 percent of the time. Individually, Faraimo ranks seventh with a 42.6 strikeout rate. As a team, UCLA paces the conference with 231 strikeouts this season.
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Enter Sandwoman
Faraimo has been utilized in a reliever role frequently this season. Five of her 13 winning decisions have come in relief. Faraimo has thrown two no-hitters this season, improving her career total to seven solo no-hitters. Most recently, Faraimo no-hit No. 3 Florida on Feb. 23, marking the first time a Bruin pitcher no-hit a top-3 opponent since March 28, 2003, when Keira Goerl kept No. 2 Stanford out of the hit column. It was Faraimo's first no-no against a ranked opponent.
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Where the Bruins Stack Up Nationally (entering week seven)
โข In the circle, Megan Faraimo is tied for fifth with 13 wins and is tenth with 121 strikeouts
โข Megan Grant leads all freshmen in the nation with 34 RBI.
โข Maya Brady ranks first in the nation in total bases (84), and eighth in both RBI (35)and slugging percentage (.933).
โข As as team, UCLA ranks eighth in the nation with 266 hits and a .343 batting average.
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Climbing UCLA's All-Time Rankings
โข With her four stolen bases at the Judi Garman Classic, Kelli Godin moved into third place on UCLA's all-time stolen bases list with 65 on 73 attempts. She passed Allexis Bennett (2013-16) who had 61 stolen bases. Godin needs eight more to tie her former teammate Briana Perez for second on the list (73).
โข Megan Faraimo's 13 wins in 2023 pushes her career record to 85-14. She is currently ninth on UCLA's career wins list. Faraimo passed Ally Carda (2012-15) and former teammate Rachel Garcia (2017-21) on the Bruins' career strikeouts list earlier this season. Faraimo has now struck out 889 batters and is 63 shy of tying Debbie Doom (1982-85) for third all-time with 952.
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