SAN ANTONIO—The UTSA softball team is set to face Charlotte in a three-game American Athletic Conference series at Roadrunner Field, beginning with Greek Night on Friday at 6 p.m. The squads will then meet in a Saturday Ovarian Cancer Awareness showdown at 1 p.m. before an Alumni Day finale on Sunday at noon.
All three games will be broadcast live on ESPN+. Neal Raphael and Lincoln Rose will call the first two, and Karl Schoening will join Raphael for game three.
The Roadrunners (12-30, 3-12 The American) are coming off a narrow 2-1 defeat at the hands of No. 24 Baylor on Tuesday. Senior Jamie Gilbert and junior Jaylen Prichard delivered standout performances for UTSA, with Gilbert going the distance and allowing just one earned run. Meanwhile, Prichard had a 3-for-4 evening at the dish.
Gilbert enters the series topping The American in complete games with 11 on the year. She is third in innings pitched (113.0), fourth in total appearances (27), and fourth in strikeouts (84). Senior Taylor Jensen joins her as a league leader, catching 11 base runners stealing, a figure that also sits 12th nationally. Additionally, redshirt freshman Madi Hays has been plunked five times for the fifth-most in the AAC, and Prichard’s 0.63 walks per game are fifth as well.
The 49ers (22-16, 9-6 The American) have been bouncing around national polls for the better part of the season and are currently 32nd on the NCAA’s RPI leader board.
They boast the second-most home runs per game in the conference, averaging 0.74 long balls each time out, and a 1.89 strikeout-to-walk ratio is second.
Individually, Georgeanna Barefoot has been one of the league’s top hurlers, with 28 total appearances, which rank 14th in the NCAA. Her ERA of 2.30 is third in The American, and her strikeout-to-walk ratio is second. Additionally, she has gone 8-2 on the year, working a 0.98 WHIP in the process.
Adrianna Rodi has blasted 13 home runs for the 18th-most in the NCAA, and she also tops the team with 35 RBIs and a .355 AVG.
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