UE faces SIU in 3-game set
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Another 3-game road series is on the slate this weekend for the University of Evansville softball team as the Purple Aces travel to Carbondale to face Southern Illinois. ESPN+ will have the live coverage of all three games.
Last Time Out
– Drake took the opening two games of last weekend’s series in Des Moines before Evansville came back to take a 7-2 win in Sunday’s finale
– Brooke Voss went 4-for-4 with two runs scored in the victory while Alexa Davis went 3-4 with three runs and two RBI
– Taylor Howe belted her first home run of the season while registering a career-best four runs batted in
– In the circle, Sydney Weatherford earned her fourth win of the season with two unearned runs scoring in seven innings
Perfect Performance
– Brooke Voss recorded a career-best four hits in four plate appearances in Sunday’s finale at Drake
– In the final two games of the weekend, Voss went 5-for-6
– Over her last 17 games, Voss is batting .373 with 19 hits in 51 at-bats while seeing her batting average rise from .146 to its current mark of .273
– Voss finished the UIC series going 3-7 with two runs in the final two games of the series
Evansville’s Ace
– Sydney Weatherford kept things rolling at Drake, completing the weekend with her fourth victory of the season in a complete-game performance
– Sunday’s game saw her allow two unearned runs on six hits
– Over her last eight appearances, Weatherford has allowed just eight earned runs in 50 innings of work
– She picked up her third win of the season in the finale against UIC; in two games against the Flames, she allowed two earned runs in 14 frames
– Her MVC earned run average is 1.43 while her season ERA is just 1.91
Career Game
– Sunday’s finale at Drake saw Taylor Howe finish with one of the best games of her career
– Howe went 2-3 with a home run and a career-high four RBI
– Entering the game, Howe had just one RBI in her first 23 games of the season
– The performance ended a 1-for-13 showing at the plate in her prior seven outings
