2018 SCHEDULE | LIBBY MATSON TOURNAMENT CENTRAL
SEATTLE – (Feb. 22) Seattle University softball makes the trip to California for the 2018 Libby Matson Tournament from Feb. 23-25.
FOLLOW THE REDHAWKS
- Friday, Feb. 23 at 1:15 p.m.
- vs. Northern Colorado
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- Friday, Feb. 23 at 3:30 p.m.
- vs. Nevada
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- Saturday, Feb. 24 at 10 a.m.
- vs. Nevada
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- Saturday, Feb. 24 at 4 p.m.
- at Pacific
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- Sunday, Feb. 25 at 10 a.m.
- vs. Northern Colorado
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ABOUT THE GAMES
- Seattle U (6-4) vs. Northern Colorado (5-5)
- All-time series-Northern Colorado leads, 9-4
- Home-Northern Colorado leads, 5-3
- Away-Northern Colorado leads, 3-1
- Neutral-Northern Colorado leads, 1-0
- Last meeting-Northern Colorado won, 6-3 on April 29, 2012
- Seattle U (6-4) vs. Nevada (3-7)
- All-time series-Series is tied, 2-2
- Home-N/A
- Away-Nevada leads, 2-1
- Neutral-Seattle U leads, 1-0
- Last meeting-Seattle U won, 2-1, at UNLV (Feb. 17, 2018)
- Seattle U (6-4) vs. Pacific (6-4)
- All-time series-Pacific leads, 3-0
- Home-N/A
- Away-Pacific leads, 2-0
- Neutral-Pacific leads, 1-0
- Last meeting-Pacific won, 9-7 at Pacific (Feb. 25, 2017)
NEWS AND NOTES
- SU won three of its five contests at the Marucci Desert Classic from Feb. 15-17. Its six wins are the most by any WAC program this season.
- Madison Cathcart was chosen WAC Hitter of the Week after batting .412 with two home runs and two doubles in Las Vegas. The sophomore ranks second nationally with six homers in 2018.
- The Redhawks beat Utah State and Hawai’i on the first day of the Marucci Desert Classic. Susanne Morris hit a three-run home run to spark a rally against USU and then Andie Larkins and Carley Nance combined to blank Hawai’i over the final six innings of a 4-2 win.
- Despite a seven-run rally against San Jose State on Feb. 17, SU fell, 10-8, to the Spartans. Later in the day, the Redhawks beat Nevada, 2-1, as Maddy Kristjanson hit a sacrifice fly to score Kaylee Ree for a walk-off victory. Seattle U won despite claiming just one hit in the contest.
- Seattle U went 3-2 at the Kajikawa Classic on opening weekend. It marked the best start by the Redhawks since 2013.
- SU beat Stanford, 13-9, on Feb. 9, as the Redhawks rallied with a nine-run fifth inning. Kaylee Ree hit a grand slam to highlight the action. The victory is SU’s third-ever over a Pac-12 program.
- On Feb. 10, Seattle U won a pair of marathon extra-inning games. It beat CSUN, 6-4 in eight innings, on Susanne Morris’ two-run walk-off home run. The Redhawks followed with a come-from-behind 11-8 win over Western Michigan. The 10-inning contest took nearly four hours as SU rallied from a 7-3 deficit in the seventh inning. Sara Dominguez hit a tying home run to force extra innings. In the 10th inning, Ally Choate drove in Alyson Matriotti for the go-ahead run and then Madison Cathcart blasted a two-run homer to make it 11-8.
- SU’s two losses both came by a single run, as Notre Dame (4-3) and Nebraska (3-2) narrowly pulled out wins.
- Carley Nance leads the WAC with 27 strikeouts and tops the league with a .230 opponent batting average. The redshirt freshman is tied for the WAC lead with four wins and one save.
- Ally Choate paces the WAC in hits (16) and runs scored (11) through two weeks of 2018.
- Coach Geoff Hirai begins his third season at the Redhawks’ head coach. He took SU to its first-ever WAC Championship Game appearance in 2017.
- The Redhawks were picked to finish third in the 2018 WAC Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Grand Canyon and defending champion New Mexico State were voted to take first and second, respectively.
- Andie Larkins is the WAC Preseason Pitcher of the Year. The junior earned All-WAC Second Team and WAC All-Tournament honors last season. She is the first Redhawk to win a major WAC preseason award.
- Sophomores Alyson Matriotti and Madison Cathcart return following All-WAC performances in 2017. Matriotti earned All-WAC First Team after hitting .419 in conference games as a freshman. The third baseman tallied 11 stolen bases in 12 tries on the year. Cathcart was an All-WAC Second Team choice, having led SU in RBIs (40) while starting all 52 games at first base.
- Andie Larkins and Kaylee Ree were both named All-WAC Preseason in February. Larkins set six Division I program records last season. Ree led the team with a .508 on-base percentage in WAC action. She started all 52 games at second base in 2017.
- SU features eight newcomers this season, with six true freshmen, one redshirt freshman, and one junior transfer joining the roster.
- In 2017, SU won 20 games and tied for third in the WAC regular season standings. It then won its first two games at the WAC Championship and advanced to its first-ever WAC Championship Game.
- Northern Colorado has a 5-5 record through two weeks this season. It beat Seton Hill and Sam Houston State at the Bearkat Softball Classic last weekend. Lauren Paige paces the offense with a .360 average in 2018.
- Nevada is 3-7 this year. It went 1-4 at last weekend’s Marucci Desert Classic, beating UTEP before losing to CSUN, Iowa State, Seattle U, and Florida International. Kenzi Goins leads the Wolf Pack offense with a .417 average and a .533 on-base percentage.
- Pacific has a 6-4 mark this season. The Tigers went 3-2 at the Bulldog Classic last weekend. They beat CSU Bakersfield twice, split with UC Davis, and lost at Fresno State in the event. Sydney Lahners has a .519 average and a .605 on-base percentage.