For the first time since 2017, the Purple Aces softball team has earned two Missouri Valley Conference sweeps and have a 6-1 stretch as they head to Des Moines, Iowa to complete the regular season against Drake. The regular season weekend finale begins on Friday with a 2 p.m. doubleheader before a noon game on Saturday.
Last Week
– UE earned its second MVC sweep in as many weekends, taking three games against Valparaiso in the final home contests of the season
– In Saturday’s opener, the offense erupted for nine runs as Eryn Gould and McKenzie Johnson belted home runs in a 9-1 win
– Johnson went deep once again in game two, leading the Aces to a 6-2 win while Sunday’s finale saw Jessica Fehr hit the game-winning 2-RBI single in the bottom of the sixth in a 4-3 triumph
– Gould batted .500 in the series, but reached base 69.2% of the time as she added four walks and was hit by a pitch in the series against the Crusaders
– Haley Woolf also finished at .500, recording five hits in 10 at-bats
– Emily Lockhart and Izzy Vetter combined to finish the three games with a 2.10 ERA; Vetter struck out a career-high 10 batters in Saturday’s win
