Aces travel to Des Moines this weekend
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With inclement weather on the forecast in Des Moines on Sunday, the University of Evansville softball team will face Drake in a 2 p.m. doubleheader on Friday with the series finale slated for Saturday at 2 p.m. ESPN+ will have the live coverage of all three games.
Last Time Out
– After dropping the first two games of the series against UIC, the Purple Aces rallied to take the finale in walk-off fashion, earning a 3-2 win
– Trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the 7th, Zoe Frossard and Taylor Howe both reached on walks before Jess Willsey forced a Flames error that scored Frossard to tie the game
– Alexa Davis re-entered the game for Howe and scored the winning run on a wild pitch
– Sydney Weatherford tossed another complete game on the way to her third win of the season
In a Zone
– Sydney Weatherford’s strong pitching continued against UIC as she allowed just two earned runs in 14 innings of work while picking up win #3 of 2024
– In her last six appearances, she has given up just five earned runs in 37 frames, good for an ERA of 1.02
– Her MVC earned run average is 1.37 while her season ERA is just 1.99
– Weatherford was at her best in the series against Valparaiso as she allowed one unearned run in 12 innings of work on her way to a pair of victories
Locked In
– Evansville’s top offensive performer has been Zoe Frossard, who leads the team in batting average (.344), on-base percentage (.474) and walks (21)
– Over the last 15 games, Frossard is batting .500 with 21 hits in 42 at-bats
– Her on-base tally is third in the MVC while her 21 walks is second and 19 runs is tied for 9th in the Valley
– She has started all 34 games for the Aces and has scored 16 runs in the last 15 games
Raising Her Average
– Batting .333 (14-for-42) in her last 14 games, Brooke Voss has seen her average rise from .146 to .244
– Over that time, Voss has accumulated 12 runs and six RBI
– Voss went 3-for-7 with two runs scored in the final two games of the UIC series
