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SUN DEVIL SOFTBALL Feb Arizona State Results DATE OPPONENT (rank) RESULT Jan. 31 Texas-San Antonio W, 6-5 Feb. 1 Texas-San Antonio W, 6-3 Feb. 2 Texas-San Antonio W, 9-1 (5) Wednesday, April 30, 2003 Feb. 7 SW Texas State# W, 12-8 Feb. 7 Texas# (12) L, 0-1 SUN DEVIL SOFTBALL Feb. 8 Iowa State# W, 3-1 Feb. 8 Mississippi State# W, 5-4 NO. 16/15 ARIZONA STATE TRAVELS TO Feb. 9 Utah# L, 3-5 NO. 15/12 STANFORD & NO. 9/6 CALIFORNIA Feb. 9 Massachusetts# (25) L, 2-5 (8) ON TAP: The No. 16/15 Arizona State Sun Devils (28-19; 5-10 Pac- Feb. 14 Illinois State% W, 4-1 10) will head out on their final Pac-10 road trip, travelling to the Bay Feb. 15 Iowa% W, 5-1 Area to take on No. 15/12 Stanford (35-20; 5-10 Pac-10) on Friday, Feb. 15 Illinois State% W, 3-1 May 2 at 7:00 p.m. The Devils will then travel over to Berkeley to Feb. 16 Iowa% W, 8-0 (5) face No. 9/6 California (39-14; 8-7 Pac-10) on Saturday, May 3 at Feb. 16 Utah State% W, 12-2 (6) 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 4 at 1:00 p.m. Earlier in the Pac-10 Feb. 21 vs. DePaul^ (8) W, 1-0 season in Tempe, the Devils defeated California, 1-0 and split with Feb. 22 vs. Liberty^ W, 11-5 Stanford, 2-1/1-4. In the all-time series, ASU leads Stanford 27-13, Feb. 23 vs. Ohio State^ (21) W, 1-0 while Cal leads the all-time series against ASU, 49-32. Feb. 28 UC Riverside W, 16-0 (5) Feb. 28 Oklahoma (9/11) L, 2-7 LAST TIME OUT: ASU dropped all three road games to the Oregon March 1 Oklahoma (9/11) L, 0-6 schools. Oregon State scored eight runs, six unearned off 12 hits to defeat ASU, 8-4, in Corvallis. ASU had a 3-0 lead until the bottom of March 1 UC Riverside W, 7-0 the third when OSU went ahead 5-3 off back-to-back home runs. March 2 Oklahoma (9/11) L, 5-8 ASU got one run back in the fifth inning to cut the lead to 5-4 off a March 2 UC Riverside W, 9-2 Cheryl Evans double, but OSU would score three more runs on four March 7 vs. Virginia Tech! W, 8-3 hits and another ASU error to seal the win. In the first game against March 7 vs. Santa Clara! W, 2-1 Oregon, a grand slam highlighted a five run fifth inning to break a March 8 vs. Oregon State! (17/17) W, 3-2 (8) scoreless game open and to carry Oregon to a 5-2 win. The Devils March 8 vs. California! (8/9) L, 1-6 did get two runs back in the sixth when Phelan Wright hit a two-run March 9 vs. Santa Clara! W, 1-0 home run to left field, her team-leading 14th of the year. In the sec- March 9 vs. Sacramento State! W, 12-9 ond game, Oregon scored an unearned run in the second and two March 13 vs. Oklahoma+ (6/6) L, 3-5 more in the sixth for a 3-0 win. Oregon posted the first run on a hit March 13 vs. Cal State Northridge+ L, 3-4 and an error. ASU had a chance to get on the board in the sixth off March 14 vs. UNLV+ W, 2-1 two hits, but an inning ending 1-6-3 double play quelled the threat. March 28 Oregon* (19/19) W, 2-0 TOUGH SCHEDULE/TOUGHER CONFERENCE: As in any sea- March 29 Oregon State* (22/21) W, 7-1 son, Arizona State will face many of the nation’s top teams and tradi- March 30 Oregon State* (22/21) W, 3-0 tionally holds a high RPI. Last year, ASU was second in the Pac-10 April 4 @ UCLA* (1/1) L, 0-6 in most games played against top-25 teams (34). This year is no April 5 @ Washington* (3/4) L, 1-2 different as ASU will have played 30 regular-season games against April 6 @ Washington* (3/4) L, 0-1 nationally ranked teams in the USA Today/NFCA and ESPN/USA April 11 California* (6/5) W, 1-0 Softball Collegiate Top-25. Within the toughest conference in the na- April 12 Stanford* (16/13) W, 2-1 tion, the Pacific-10, ASU will face a nationally-ranked team nearly April 13 Stanford* (16/13) L, 1-4 every time out. Seven of the eight Pac-10 teams are ranked in the April 18 @ Arizona* (1/1) L, 0-8 (5) top-25, including three of the top four and five of the top-12. The April 19 @ Arizona* (1/1) L, 1-2 Pac-10 holds a 202-47-1 (.810) record against non-conference teams. April 23 Arizona* (1/1) L, 2-4 PLAYER OF THE YEAR: For the second straight year, senior short- April 25 @ Oregon State* L, 4-8 stop Kara Brun is one of 25 finalists for national player of the year April 26 @ Oregon* (23/20) L, 2-5 honors. The Amateur Softball Association, the National Governing April 27 @ Oregon* (23/20) L, 0-3 Body of Softball in the United States, announced its initial watch list May 2 @ Stanford* (15/12) 7:00 p.m. for the 2nd annual USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Award. May 3 @ California* (9/6) 2:00 p.m. Brun and junior third baseman Phelan Wright were among the initial May 4 @ California* (9/6) 1:00 p.m. 40 players selected to be on the watch list. Last year, Wright was May 9 Washington* (FSN) 7:00 p.m. one of 10 finalists for the inaugural player of the year honor, while May 10 UCLA* 7:00 p.m. Brun was one of the 25 finalists. The award is considered the Heisman May 10 UCLA* 9:00 p.m. Trophy in women’s collegiate softball and is the only national player May 15-18 NCAA Regionals TBD of the year award. It will then be reduced to 10 players on April 29th, May 22-26 NCAA College World SeriesTBD with three finalists named on May 13th. The winner of the 2003 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Award will be announced at the All home games are bolded. 2003 NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. Ranking are by USAToday/NFCA & ESPN/USA Softball. * Pacific-10 Conference game. Will Phillips, Softball Contact # Fiesta Bowl Tournament, Phoenix/Tempe, Ariz. % Louisville Slugger Tournament, Tempe, Ariz. Carson Center/Media Relations Office, Room 131 ^ NFCA Leadoff Classic Tournament, Columbus, Ga. Tempe, Arizona 85287-2505 ! National Invitational Tournament, San Jose, Calif. (480) 965-6592 • Fax: (480) 965-5408 + KIA Klassic Tournament, Fullerton, Calif. [email protected] • www.thesundevils.com 2003 Sun Devil Softball — 2•2•2 April 30, 2003 USA Today/NFCA Top-25 THE WRIGHT STUFF: Junior All-American third baseman Phelan Wright enters the 2003 season as one of the premier softball players in the country. After posting out- Team (first place) Record Pts. LR standing numbers as a freshman and as a sophomore, Wright continues to post great 1. Arizona (22) 45-4 550 1 numbers. One of 40 finalists for National Player of the Year honors , Wright is currently 2. UCLA 39-5 528 2 batting at a .343 clip with a team-leading 45 RBIs (a career-high and 18 coming with 2 3. Texas 39-7 506 3 outs) and 14 home runs, a new single-season record at ASU. Wright also accom- 4. Oklahoma 38-9 464 5 plished an ASU record (as far as the books indicate) by slugging three home runs in 5. Washington 40-9-1 459 4 three straight at-bats against SW Texas State. In addition, she is currently ASU’s all- 6. DePaul 39-5-1 438 6 time leader in career batting average (.386). Last year Wright led the team throughout 7. Cal State Fullerton 33-15 415 7 (t) the year in batting average (.405/4th Pac-10), hits (75/6th Pac-10) and doubles (17/ 8. Georgia 52-9 389 10 3rd Pac-10). She finished second in home runs (8), RBIs (40) and batted .350 in the 9. California 39-14 384 9 pitching rich Pac-10 Conference. Wright also led the team in multi-hit games (23), 10. Louisiana State 43-12 331 11 multi-RBI games (11) and posted the team’s second longest hitting streak at 10 games. 11. Nebraska 34-13 327 7 (t) She was also one of 10 finalists for National Player of the Year honors and was named 12. Florida State 41-9 309 13 first-team All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-10. Wright also was named to the NIST All- 13. Michigan 36-10 286 14 Tournament team and the Region III All-Tournament team. As a freshman, Wright was 14. Oklahoma State 35-11 279 15 named the team’s Offensive Player of the Year after leading ASU in batting average 15. Stanford 35-20 239 16 (.399/average was the highest posted by a freshman in the Pac-10 since 1999), hits 16. Arizona State 28-19 217 12 (67) triples (2) and slugging percentage (.530).
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