 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Home action begins this weekend for the University of Evansville softball team with the UE Softball Invitational set to run from Friday through Sunday.
 UE Weekend Schedule
– Evansville’s 5-game schedule this weekend will be:
3/4 – vs. Oakland – 11:30 a.m.
3/4 – vs. Green Bay – 4:30 p.m.
3/5 – vs. Morehead State – 11:30 a.m.
3/6 – vs. Creighton – 11:30 a.m.
3/6 – vs. Bowling Green – 4:30 p.m.
 Last Time Out
– Clutch hitting and efficient pitching saw the Purple Aces finish last weekend’s Hub City Challenge with a 3-1 record
– Friday’s opener saw Jenna Nink hit a game-winning single in a 5-4 win over Alcorn State before the Aces erupted for 11 runs on Saturday to defeat the Braves by an 11-0 final in five innings…Marah Wood and Nink recorded three RBI apiece
– After dropping a 7-2 game to Southern Miss on Saturday, the Aces completed the weekend with a 3-1 win on Sunday with Izzy Vetter throwing a gem and Bella Coffey hitting a 2-run double in the seventh, which proved to be the game-winner
Three more wins
– Last weekend’s Hub City Challenge saw Izzy Vetter add three more wins to her tally while allowing just two earned runs in 13.2 innings and was recognized with her second MVC Pitcher of the Week award this season
– Vetter is the MVC leader in opposing batting average (.175), innings pitched (45.2), strikeouts (62), strikeouts looking (13) and wins (7)…her 1.84 ERA is 4th in the league
– Her 62 K’s in 2022 is 22nd in the nation
Heating Up
– After starting the season with two hits in 17 at-bats, Jessica Fehr has been on a roll, recording 13 hits in her last 26 AB’s
– Fehr paces the MVC with 10 walks in 2022 while ranking in a tie for third with 10 runs scored, tied for fourth with 15 hits and fifth with an on-base percentage of 0.481
– She led the team with a .545 average at the Hub City Challenge and reached base 64.3% of the time…highlighting the weekend was a 3-3 game in the opener against Alcorn State where she was 3-3 with two runs, two RBI and a walk
Clutch Performances
– After picking up two game-winning hits in the opening weekend, Alexa Davis scored the game-winning run on Feb. 19 versus MTSU
– Hitting a 2-out triple in the 9th, Davis scored on a hit by Jenna Nink
– Davis batted .750 in the opening weekend of play and currently has a team-high .382 average, which is 9th in the MVC
– With a total of 10 runs scored in 2022, Davis is 5th in the conference
