March 5, 2013
TULSA, Okla. -
The 21st-ranked Tulsa softball team plays its first home game of the 2013 season Wednesday against in-state rival Oklahoma State at 4 p.m. at the Collins Family Softball Complex.
The game time was moved up one hour from the originally scheduled 5 p.m. start.
The Golden Hurricane is 15-5 on the season and ranked No. 21 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 Poll and No. 22 in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Softball Poll. The Cowgirls enter the game with a 7-11 record this season.
The Last Meeting
April 18, 2012
Stillwater, Okla.
Softball Falls at OSU, 8-3
Oklahoma State scored five runs in the sixth inning to defeat Tulsa, 8-3, Wednesday evening at Cowgirl Stadium.
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Tulsa hits .274 (150-for-547) with 75 RBI, 83 runs, 22 doubles, six triples and 10 home runs, and has a .391 slugging percentage and a .342 on-base percentage with 49 walks. The Hurricane has a 2.06 team ERA with 138 strikeouts, 58 walks, 102 hits, 51 runs and 40 earned runs allowed, and has a .208 opponent batting average.
Tulsa is led in hitting by junior third baseman
Jill Barrett, who hits .403 (27-for-67) with 11 runs scored, 11 RBI, a .522 slugging percentage and a .431 OBP. Senior center fielder
Caitlin Everett hits .356 (26-for-73) with 14 runs, a .397 slugging percentage and a .365 OBP. Senior
Lacey Middlebrooks hits .354 (17-for-48) with eight runs, 10 RBI, three home runs, five doubles, a .646 slugging percentage and a .466 OBP. Junior
Haley Henshaw hits .333 (21-for-63) with 17 RBI, two home runs, eight runs, a .492 slugging percentage and a .373 on-base percentage. Senior shortstop
Samantha Cobb hits .258 (16-for-62) with 10 RBI, 12 runs, three homers, two triples, one double, a .484 slugging percentage and a .338 on-base percentage.
In the circle, Middlebrooks is 5-2 with a 1.01 ERA in 55.1 innings, and has allowed 34 hits, 13 runs and eight earned runs, with 40 strikeouts and 26 walks. Junior Aimee Creger is 9-1 with a 1.04 ERA in 60.1 innings, and has allowed 38 hits, 12 runs and nine earned runs, with 84 strikeouts and 20 walks.
Oklahoma State hits .222 as a team (104-for-468) with 44 runs scored, 39 RBI, 16 doubles and six home runs, a .295 slugging percentage and a .312 on-base percentage. The Cowgirls pitchers have a 2.11 ERA with 131 strikeouts, 38 walks, 97 hits, 51 runs and 38 earned runs allowed, and a .205 opponent batting average.
This will be the 37th meeting between Tulsa and Oklahoma State. OSU leads the series, 26-10. The Cowgirls have won four in a row in the series, including a 7-4 win in Tulsa last season, and an 8-3 win in Stillwater. The Golden Hurricane last defeated OSU, 6-2, in 2010 in Stillwater.
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In eight years as a member of Conference USA, Tulsa athletic teams have won a league-best 48 conference championships.
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Since the opening of the Donald W. Reynolds Center in 1998, Tulsa’s athletic facilities have undergone a major facelift. New facilities include the Michael D. Case Tennis Center, the Collins Family Softball Complex, the Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium, the J. Bird Sr. Shell Nest, the Jack Zink Indoor Rowing Center, the Case Athletic Complex and major renovation to H.A. Chapman Stadium.
TU is 75th among national doctoral universities in U. S. News & World Report's 2012 edition of America's Best Colleges. TU's 2011 freshman class had a mean cumulative grade point average of 3.8, and 74 percent graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes. Their average ACT was 28.
The Golden Hurricane Club, as the primary fundraising arm of TU Athletics, works to provide every TU student-athlete with the opportunity to realize a world-class athletic and academic experience.
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