Aces and Bears meet up Friday and Saturday
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Conference championship seeding is on the line this weekend when the University of Evansville softball team wraps up the regular season with a 3-game series at Missouri State. The weekend begins on Friday with a 12 p.m. doubleheader before a single game on Saturday at 11 a.m. – ESPN3 will have the broadcast for all three games.
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Last Time Out
– The Purple Aces put together one of their best weekends of the season, earning a 3-game sweep in the final regular season home series against Bradley
– After opening with a 6-4 win, UE finished the doubleheader with a 10-4 triumph; Sunday’s finale saw the Aces complete the sweep with an impressive 11-1 victory
– In Saturday’s DH, Haley Woolf belted three home runs and accumulated a total of nine RBI; she opened the series with a grand slam in the first inning on her way to being named the MVC Player of the Week
– Izzy Vetter tossed the first no-hitter of her UE career on Sunday to lead the Aces to the 3-game sweep
Player of the Week
– An unbelievable day saw Haley Woolf hit three home runs in the doubleheader on Saturday on her way to the first MVC Player of the Week honor of her career
– Entering the weekend, Woolf’s season numbers stood at two home runs, 11 RBI and nine runs scored but in the three games versus the Braves, Woolf hit three homers while accumulating nine RBI and six runs
– Woolf has started to come alive offensively, picking up a hit in each of the last five games and seven out of eight contests since April 18
– Since that time, she has seen her average rise from .253 to .288
Approaching a Record
– Entering the final weekend of the regular season, Eryn Gould is just two walks away from tying the program mark of 97
– Over the last four games, Gould has walked seven times while seeing her on-base mark rise to .582 – 11th in the nation
– Not far off of that is her batting average of .438, which ranks 28th in the country and is on pace to shatter UE’s all-time program mark
– Upon recording her 100th at-bat, she became eligible for UE’s single season marks…her current batting average of .438 is on pace to break the program mark that Staci Hatz set in 1998 when she batted .408…Hatz was the only player in program history to finish a season batting over .400…Gould also has an on-base percentage of .582, which is also on pace for the program mark…Brittany Herald currently holds the UE record of .511, which she accomplished in 2007
– Her average is currently tied for the 8th-best in Missouri Valley Conference history
No-No
– Izzy Vetter threw the first no-hitter of her collegiate career on Sunday against Bradley…just a day earlier, she showed signs of what may be coming as she sat the first 11 Braves batters down in order in the opener
– Sunday’s effort saw her keep the Braves hitters off balance over the course of five innings…it was Evansville’s first no-hitter since February 16, 2019 when Emily Lockhart accomplished the feat against Southern in the finale of the Roul’s Deli MVC-SWAC Challenge
– With three wins in UE’s last four games, Vetter owns 13 wins on the season, the most for an Evansville player since Morgan Florey won 14 games in 2017
– With a total of 176 strikeouts, Vetter ranks 21st in the nation while her 8.7 strikeouts per seven innings is 48th
