Aces welcome Northern Iowa to Cooper Stadium
 EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Another big weekend is on the docket for the University of Evansville softball team when the Purple Aces welcome preseason Missouri Valley Conference favorite Northern Iowa to Cooper Stadium. Saturday opens with a 12 p.m. doubleheader before Sunday’s finale will get underway with a noon start time.
 Last Time Out
– For the first time since 2010, the Aces defeated Drake in a home series, taking two out of three games against the Bulldogs to open league play
– After falling by a 10-1 final in Saturdays series opener, UE stormed back with a 5-3 win to begin Sundays doubleheader before recording a 12-3 win in six innings to seal the series win
– Sydney Weatherford started Sundays opener and after allowing two runs in the first inning, she allowed just one more over the remainder of the contest to help the Aces even the weekend series
– Jenna Lis hit a 2-run homer while Alexa Davis added a solo shot in the game…Mackenzie McFeron had the game-winning hit, plating Haley Woolf on a triple in the 6th
– Evansville led game two by a 6-0 score following three innings before a 5-run 6th clinched the 12-3 win with McFeron coming through in the clutch once again, hitting a walk-off bases-clearing double
What a Day
– Senior Mackenzie McFeron currently has nine RBI in her UE career…four of those came in Sundays doubleheader sweep over Drake
– In game one, her triple in the sixth inning proved to be the game-winner in a 5-3 UE win that evened the weekend series
– McFeron did even better in the finale, belting a base-clearing walk-off double to seal a 12-3 victory and a series win
– She carries a career-best 4-game hit streak into the UNI series
Heating Up
– Jessica Fehr continues to swing a hot bat, adding three hits in six at-bats to help the Aces sweep Sundays doubleheader versus Drake
– Picking up a hit in 11 of her last 13 games, Fehr leads UE and ranks 8th in the MVC with a .355 average
– She is the MVC leader with 14 walks while ranking fourth with 18 runs scored – over the last 15 games, she has scored 13 runs
– After starting the season with two hits in 17 at-bats, Fehr has recorded 25 hits in her last 59 AB’s while batting .424 over that span
Dual Threat
– Freshman Sydney Weatherford is off to an impressive start to her college career, ranking second in the MVC with 19 RBI while sitting third with her season ERA of 2.11
– Weatherford is on a roll in the circle, tossing three complete games in a row while allowing just five earned runs over her last 21 innings
– Despite a 3-for-23 skid at the plate, Weatherford is batting .258 while tying for the Valley lead with four triples along with her 19 RBI, which ranks second
Turning Point?
– Jenna Lis approached the plate in the March 20 doubleheader opener against Drake stuck in a 1-for-21 slump at the plate while her team trailed the Bulldogs by a 1-0 margin the weekend series and a 2-0 score in the game
– What may have been a turning point in the season for Lis and her team, she connected on a 2-run home run, her first of the season, to tie the game with the Aces taking both ends of the doubleheader
– She added a 2-for-4 effort with a run and RBI in game two
