SEATTLE - Seattle University softball (19-29, 5-10 WCC) travels down to its West Coast Conference bookend San Diego (18-30, 4-11 WCC) for a three game series at Reggie Smith Softball Complex from Thursday, May 7 through Saturday, May 9 to wrap up its inaugural season in the WCC. All games will be streamed on ESPN+.
Junior Avari Morris leads the team and ranks second in the conference with a .426 batting average. Her 72 hits also ranks second in the league while sitting three hits shy of tying the program single season record. Morris ranks third in the conference in runs scored with 43, fourth in the WCC in doubles with 14 and fourth in the league in triples with three.
The dual threat has tossed 79.1 innings from the circle on the season in 21 appearances. Morris has handed out 66 strikeouts to lead all Redhawks, while ranking fourth in the conference with 5.82 strikeouts per game. She has held opponents to .278 batting this season.
Ranking amongst the top of the WCC alongside Morris is senior Ava Sin. Sin has logged 55 hits on the season and leads the conference in doubles with 19. Her 19 doubles is now tied second in program history for doubles in a single season. She sits one double shy of tying the program record. Sin is batting .367 this year, which ranks sixth in the conference. She ranks fifth in the conference with 43 RBI.
Senior Taylor Fitch sits in the top-10 alongside both Sin and Morris, batting .365 this season. She leads the team with 50 RBI, which ranks third in the conference. Fitch tallied her 13th home run of the season against Santa Clara, a mark that now ranks tied-third all-time for home runs in a single season. She ranks third in the league in homers. Her 41 runs scored is fourth in the conference.
Leading from the circle is freshman Kaia Galaviz. Galaviz sits seventh in the conference in ERA. Through 23 appearances, Galaviz has pitched 73.0 innings and leads the team with seven wins from the circle. She has struck out 52 batters on the season, averaging 4.99 strikeouts per seven innings.
Junior Berkley Vance leads all pitchers with 104.1 innings of work. She has appeared 25 times and pitched the Redhawks to six wins. Vance has amassed 53 strikeouts on the season.
Aiding the Redhawk defense is graduate Jay Ross. Ross sits fifth in the conference in putouts with 197 from first base. Junior Karen Spadafora is right behind with 191 putouts from behind home plate. Fitch leads the team and ranks 10th in the conference in assists with 80.
The Redhawks hold a combined .314 batting average on the season. They have tallied 428 hits, 274 runs, 254 RBI and 82 doubles this season. SU leads the conference in doubles, sitting nine ahead of second.
Seattle U and San Diego meet for the first time since 2022. The Redhawks trail the all-time series 5-6 dating back to 2011. The pair have met four times in San Diego between the 2011 and 2014 seasons. The Redhawks went 1-3 in that time span. Since then, the pair have only ever met on a neutral field, last playing one another in Palm Springs in 2022. The Toreros have won three of the last five dating back to 2016.
The Toreros snapped a four game losing streak, taking game two against Pacific before the Tigers claimed the series on Sunday. San Diego moved to 4-11 in league contests and 3-13 in road games. The Toreros are 10-15 at home this season and are looking for their first series win since early April.
SU concludes its first trip through the West Coast Conference this weekend against San Diego. The conference will implement a post-season tournament in the 2027 season, with four teams traveling to a pre-determined host campus. The WCC’s regular season champion will represent the league at the NCAA tournament.
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