SAN ANTONIO—The UTSA softball team has another busy week ahead, as it visits Sam Houston in Huntsville on Wednesday at 6 p.m., before hosting North Texas in a three-game American Conference series from Friday through Sunday at Roadrunner Field.
After visiting Bearkat Softball Stadium, the ‘Runners will invite the Mean Green for Neon Night on Friday at 6 p.m., with Alumni Day set to follow on Saturday at 1 p.m. Rounding things out, the series finale is set for Sunday at noon and is Daddy Daughter Day.
The Roadrunners (17-12, 6-0 American) are off to their best start in league play since the 2006 season, tying that squad for the program’s best-ever. UTSA swept Memphis last time out, with junior Samantha Mundine and sophomore Reagan Stoudt turning in sensational performances.
Mundine was stellar for the squad over the last week, hitting .500 with an OPS of 1.455, including a contest against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. She hit a home run and a triple en route to six RBIs on the week. Stoudt was impressive in the circle, going 1-0 with a complete game and a save. She maintained a 1.62 ERA over 8.2 innings of work with four strikeouts.
UTSA ranks 28th nationally with 250 hits, a figure that tops the American. The Roadrunners also pace the conference in batting average (.322), and are second in double plays (15), home runs (28) and strikeouts per seven innings (5.37).
Individually, Hernandez is 25th across the NCAA with seven complete games and ranks seventh in games started. She’s tossed the 17th-most innings nationally at 88.2, and 85 strikeouts are 25th. Her 10 victories are 19th in the NCAA, and at the plate, sophomore Sabrina Wick paces the American with 38 hits on the campaign.
The Bearkats (18-13, 4-2 CUSA) picked up a pair of wins over New Mexico State in their last series.
Victoria Harrison has played a major role in their success, with 11 home runs, slotting her 19th in the NCAA, and Sophia Lundstrom is 22nd in hits at 42. Bella Perez has been solid behind the plate, with eight runners caught stealing ranking 12th.
Lundstrom hits .404 to top the Bearkats, with Perez at .348 and Harrison maintaining a .321 average. Harrison’s 28 RBIs lead the team, and Perez isn’t far behind at 25.
The staff maintains a 3.83 ERA in the circle, and Tiffany Sanchez has a squad-high six wins.
The Mean Green (16-13, 6-0 American) enters the week tied with UTSA and South Florida atop the league standings, and like UTSA, is off to the program’s best start in school history. UNT has swept UAB and Tulsa to start things off, and the Mean Green boasts the American batting average leader in Elizabeth Moffit, who hits .457, with a slugging percentage of .843. Madison Conley tops the conference in home runs with eight.
Britteny Lewnski ties Hernandez for the most complete games in the league, at seven, as she’s gone 9-6 thus far. She owns a 4.15 ERA, and the staff sits at 5.32. Anneca Anderson holds a 6-3 record, with Kayleigh Smith also logging a win on the season.
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