Texans return dwelling for three-game league collection with SFA

The Groups: Tarleton Texans (18-11, 4-2 WAC) vs. Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks (11-16, 4-2 WAC)
The place: Stephenville, TX
Stadium: Tarleton Softball Advanced
Occasions: 4 p.m. / 6:30 p.m. CT (Friday); 1 p.m. CT Saturday
Radio: 100.7 FM KTRX
Video: WAC Digital Community
 
TEXAN SOFTBALL GAME DAY
The Texans are set to return dwelling to the pleasant confines of the Tarleton Softball Advanced this weekend for a vital, three-game showdown towards WAC Southwest Division preseason favorites, Stephen F. Austin. The collection begins Friday with a 4 p.m. doubleheader and concludes Saturday at 1 p.m.
 
Reside stats and video can be obtainable for all video games of the weekend. Hyperlinks will be discovered on the softball schedule on TarletonSports.com. There can even be a radio broadcast of the video games when Kyle Crews has the decision on 100.7 FM KTRX in Stephenville.
 
Further bleachers have been added to the Tarleton Softball Advanced and can be obtainable this weekend and stay for the remainder of the season.
 
ABOUT THE MATCHUPS

• Tarleton will welcome Stephen F. Austin for the primary time in program historical past this weekend when the Texans and Girl Jacks sq. off for the primary time as WAC rivals.
• The groups met twice final season in Denton on the North Texas Invitational and cut up the primary two conferences. SFA received the primary assembly 6-0 however Tarleton bought the final snigger of the weekend with a 2-1 victory.
• Julia Wernet fired an entire sport, one-run efficiency within the 2-1 win towards Stephen F. Austin final season. Katy Schaefer enters the weekend with nice success towards the Girl Jacks. She is 4-7 in two profession video games towards SFA.
• Stephen F. Austin head coach Nicole Dickson can be reverse of Tarleton for simply her third, fourth, and fifth video games as an opposing head coach however has fairly the historical past towards the Texans. A former pitcher for Japanese New Mexico, the SFA coach performed towards Tarleton through the 2007-08 seasons whereas a member of the Zias. She appeared in 4 video games towards the Texans in her two seasons and went 1-0 with three no choices. The Texans received two of the 4 video games during which she appeared. On March 9, 2007, Dickson began an surrendered eight runs in 4 innings towards the Texans in a sport that present Tarleton OF Ashlee LaRue’s aunt, Brooke, went 2-2 with two walks, three runs scored and a house run.

 
QUICK HITS

• Georgia Capell slugged her tenth dwelling run of the season final weekend. She leads all Division I reclassifying gamers in dwelling runs. This marks her third profession season with 10 or extra lengthy balls.
• Freshman Paige Nunes made fairly the impression in her first two collegiate at bats final weekend towards ACU. In her first profession AB, Nunes pinch hit and slugged a two-run double to tie the sport. Within the second sport of the doubleheader, she bought her second profession at bat in a pinch hit and drove in two extra runs – this time for the game-winning runs. She earned her first profession begin in sport two Tuesday at Baylor with a 1-for-3 efficiency.
• Amanda DeSario’s four-hit efficiency towards UTEP remains to be the one four-hit efficiency for Tarleton this season. It is the primary four-hit sport by a Texan within the D1 period and since Georgia Capell vs. UT Tyler on March 6, 2020.
• Tarleton’s subsequent win would be the 750th in program historical past. The Tarleton Softball program started in 1996 and enters the weekend with a report of 749-549-3.
• Tarleton has been susceptible to the lengthy ball in its dwelling video games this season. Tarleton has hit 22 dwelling runs in 11 video games on the Tarleton Softball Advanced. Of these 22, eight totally different Texans have slugged dwelling runs – Miranda Pruitt (4), Georgia Capell (4), Katy Schaefer (3), Brady Rowland (3), Brittany Coe (3), Amanda DeSario (2), Ashlee LaRue (2), and Alexis Hoang (1).
• Tarleton enters Tuesday’s video games with three gamers having hits in not less than three straight video games – Georgia Capell (8), Katy Schaefer (4), and Paige Nunes (3).

 
WAC UPDATES

• LEAGUE STANDINGS: Tarleton is in second place behind Abilene Christian within the divisional standings with a 4-2 WAC report. Tarleton’s 18-11 total report is one of the best within the Southwest Division.
• FOUR NEW MEMBERS, TWO ON THE WAY: Only a yr after welcoming two colleges to the league in Dixie State and Tarleton, the WAC has opened its arms as soon as once more by bringing within the ‘Texas 4’group of Abilene Christian, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston, and Lamar. Tarleton can even usher in Southern Utah subsequent yr and Incarnate Phrase in 2023 to develop by eight members over a four-year span. Incarnate Phrase just lately accepted an invite to affix the league.
• OWNING THE LONE STAR STATE: With the addition of the 4 Texas colleges, the WAC now boasts the biggest presence of any convention within the nation on the NCAA Division I stage within the state of Texas.
• LEAGUE DIVISIONS: With the addition of the 4 Texas colleges, the WAC has gone into two divisions in softball for the primary time. The Texans are part of the Southwest Division that features all 5 of the league’s Texas softball-playing colleges – Tarleton, ACU, SFA, Sam Houston, and Lamar.
• PRESEASON POLL: Tarleton was picked to complete fourth within the Southwest Division of the Western Athletic Convention. With eight factors, the Texans have been picked behind SFA (16), Sam Houston (13), and Abilene Christian (9) in a division that features all 5 of the league’s Texas colleges.

 
CAPELL LOOKING TO REWRITE THE RECORD BOOKS
Georgia Capell has put collectively a Corridor of Fame worthy resumé. Capell enters the weekend as this system’s all-time chief in dwelling runs (60), runs (199), complete bases (494), RBI (192) and doubles (62). She can be closing in on the all-time hits report (246), in addition to on tempo to be among the many all-time leaders in batting common and slugging proportion. She continues to climb the ranks within the following classes:
 

 
BRIDGES MOVES INTO TOP-10 STRIKEOUT LIST
Tristan Bridges has additionally moved into the Tarleton top-10 listing for strikeouts. The junior enters the weekend with 251 profession strikeouts and is 25 behind Jill Ratliff for ninth in program historical past. She continues to climb the ranks within the following classes:
 

 
WALK-OFF WIZARDS
Since April 9, 2021, Tarleton’s dwelling victories have been completed largely in dramatic vogue. Of Tarleton’s 15 dwelling victories over that span, 11 of them have come by way of walk-off. Six of Tarleton’s 10 dwelling wins this season got here within the final at-bat. The 11 Tarleton walk-off wins since April 9, 2021 are:
 

 
NOTABLES

• ROAD WARRIORS: Because the 2019 common season finale towards West Texas A&M on April 27,Tarleton has been the very definition of weary vacationers. Tarleton Softball has performed 110 video games for the reason that starting of the 2019 postseason and 84 of these have been away from Stephenville. The Texans are 37-47 in highway video games since Might 3, 2019. Tarleton went 713 days between dwelling losses (April 27, 2019 to April 9, 2021).
• HOME RUN QUEEN OF TARLETON: With a three-run dwelling run towards ACU on March 19, 2022, Georgia Capell hit her 59th profession lengthy ball to set the Tarleton State College report for many dwelling runs within the college’s diamond sport historical past (baseball and softball). She grew to become the primary Texan ever to achieve 60 profession dwelling runs with a solo dwelling run towards Baylor on March 22.
• IT’S A FAMILY THING: Newcomer Ashlee LaRue joins Tarleton after spending one season at Ole Miss. LaRue is a local of Blanco, Texas and has fairly the household historical past with baseball and softball. Her father, Shaun, performed professionally with the Cincinnati Reds system. Her aunt, Brooke, performed three years for Tarleton from 2007-09. Her uncle, Jason, performed 12 years in Main League Baseball for Cincinnati, Kansas Metropolis, and St. Louis.
• FOLLOWING IN HER FOOTSTEPS: After incomes an undergraduate diploma from Texas A&M, Hannah Mayo has transferred to Tarleton the place her mom was a trailblazer for the start of the Tarleton Softball program. Hannah Mayo’s mother, Heather, was a part of the primary two groups to compete in fastpitch softball at Tarleton in 1996-97. Heather was the successful pitcher for the primary victory in program historical past on Feb. 19, 1996 towards Schreiner School 3-2 in further innings. She was additionally an All-LSC First Workforce and Educational All-LSC award winner for the Texans in 1997. Daughter, Hannah, made her dwelling debut final weekend towards Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and pitched 5 innings in a 5-4 win over the Islanders.
• AGAINST P5s: Tarleton confronted off towards groups from the Energy 5 conferences 12 instances throughout their first two seasons in NCAA Division I. Tarleton’s first win towards these colleges was an 11-9 win in further innings over Texas Tech on March 20, 2021. Its most up-to-date win got here when Tarleton defeated Syracuse 2-1 on back-to-back dwelling runs with two outs within the seventh on Feb. 18, 2022.
• SCORING 10: The Tarleton offense has been phenomenal early on this season. The Texans have scored 10 or extra runs seven instances this season, topping their complete complete of 10-run video games from the 2021 season (6).
• LEADOFF ON LOCK: There is just one place within the Tarleton lineup that has not modified this season – the leadoff spot. Morgan Medford has began all 27 video games within the No. 1 place of the Texan lineup.
• LET THE STICKS DO THE TALKIN’: Tarleton is 17-2 this season when scoring three or extra runs in a sport. Inside these video games, the Texans are 11-1 when scoring six or extra.
• WINNING IN THE CIRCLE: Tarleton is 16-5 this season when permitting 5 runs or fewer, together with an ideal 7-0 mark when permitting two runs or much less.
• WELL ABOVE AVERAGE: Whereas averages can be fluid all through the rest of the season, Georgia Capell stays on tempo to complete among the many greatest in program historical past for batting common and slugging proportion. She enters the weekend with a .372 profession batting common, which at the moment locations her fifth all-time, and a .747 profession slugging proportion, which is No. 2 in program historical past.
• BRIDGES COMPLETES A SOLID TRIO: Since Stefanie Phillips joined Mark Cumpian on the employees in 2015, Tarleton has developed three of the highest pitchers within the historical past of this system. Since 2015, the mixture of Haley Freyman, Jordan Withrow, and Tristan Bridges have mixed to start out 250 of the 388 video games (64%) Tarleton has performed eight seasons.

 
UP NEXT FOR TARLETON
Tarleton will shut out this present five-game homestand on Wednesday when the Texans host UTEP for a 4 p.m. doubleheader. Then Tarleton will hit the highway for a three-game highway collection at Lamar.