2021 Creighton Softball Notes Games 15-17 • Seton Hall at Creighton • Omaha, Nebraska Friday, April 2 • 12 pm (DH) || Saturday, April 3 • 12 pm Softball SID: Anthony Robinson • Cell Phone: (712) 250-4900 • Email: [email protected] • Office Phone: (402) 280-5801 2021 Schedule Up Next Overall: 7-7 Creighton returns to action for the BIG EAST: 3-3 Home: 1-2 first time since March 21 when Away: 2-5 it hosts Seton Hall on Friday and Neutral: 4-0 Saturday at the Creighton Sports February Complex. 27 at Wichita State L, 2-14 (5 inn.) 27 at Wichita State L, 3-13 (5 inn.) Follow The Game 28 at Wichita State L, 0-4 Live video and live stats will be available for each game. March 5 ! vs. UIC W, 10-2 (6 inn,) transfer owns 41 strikeouts (8th Video will be provided on YouTube. 5 ! vs. Saint Louis W, 6-4 in BIG EAST) including 17 looking, com/GoCreighton and stats will be 6 ! vs. Northern Kentucky W, 4-3 which ranks second the conference. provided by StatBroadcast. 6 ! at Southern Illinois L, 3-5 7 ! vs. UIC W, 8-2 Mikayla Santa Cruz has pitched 26 Links to the video and live stats 12 at Providence * W, 2-0 innings and claims a 4.58 ERA. will be available on the Creighton 12 at Providence * W, 6-0 softball schedule page. 13 at Providence * L, 2-3 Bluejays pitchers have combined for 17 at Nebraska-Omaha PPD to 3/24 a 4.61 ERA and 75 strikeouts during Scoring updates and infographics 20 UCONN * W, 2-1 88 innings of work. will be provided via Twitter at 20 UCONN * L, 1-9 @BluejaySoftball. 21 UCONN * L, 5-10 Creighton returned 17 letterwinners 24 at Nebraska-Omaha Canceled from 2020 and welcomed six Scouting Creighton (7-7, 3-3 BE) 27 at Villanova (DH) * Canceled newcomers, including five freshman The Bluejays opened their home 28 at Villanova * Canceled and one graduate transfer. schedule with a 1-2 showing against April UConn and scored a total eight runs Head coach Brent Vigness is in 2 SETON HALL (DH) * 12 pm during three games, March 20-21. his 28th season at the helm of 3 SETON HALL * 12 pm the Bluejays and owns 797 wins 6 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE (DH) 2 pm Creighton ranks second in the BIG at Creighton, the most by any 10 ST. JOHN’S (DH) * 12 pm EAST with a .288 team batting head coach across all of Creighton 11 ST. JOHN’S * 11 am average, led by fifth-year senior athletics. 14 NEBRASKA-OMAHA 4 pm Ashley Cantu. Cantu leads the 17 at DePaul (DH) * 12 pm conference with a .500 average and Scouting Seton Hall (6-12, 2-4 BE) 18 at DePaul * 12 pm is sixth in the league with 22 hits. The Pirates head to Omaha after 24 at Georgetown (DH) * Canceled a 6-2 win against Hofstra on 25 at Georgetown * Canceled Kailey Wilson leads the Bluejays Wednesday afternoon. 28 SOUTH DAKOTA 6 pm and is tied for seventh in the 30 at South Dakota State (DH) 2 pm conference with four home runs Seton Hall has not played a league and 13 RBIs, while ranking ninth game since March 21. May in the BIG EAST with a .370 batting 8 BUTLER (DH) * 12 pm average. The Pirates enter the weekend 2-4 9 BUTLER * 12 pm during BIG EAST play, with all four 13-15 #BIG EAST Championship TBA Parker Boyd leads the Creighton losses coming by two runs or less. pitching staff with 47 1/3 innings pitched and a 4.29 ERA. The graduate Home games in BOLD CAPS Kiana Tate leads Seton Hall during All times are Central and subject to change (DH) - Indicates doubleheader 2021 BIG EAST Standings ! - Saluki Invitational (Carbondale, Illinois) * - BIG EAST Conference Game BIG EAST Overall # - 2021 BIG EAST Championship (Storrs, Connecticut) Team W L Pct. W L Villanova 3 0 1.000 13 7 DePaul 3 0 1.000 11 7 UConn 5 1 .833 13 10 St. John’s 4 4 .500 7 8 Creighton 3 3 .500 7 7 Seton Hall 2 4 .333 6 12 Butler 2 7 .222 10 14 Providence 1 4 .200 2 7 league action with eight hits, while Last Time Out Creighton Quick Facts Hailey Arteaga, a 2019 All-BIG EAST Creighton opened its home schedule selection, paces the squad with four with a three-game series against General Information runs and six RBIs in conference UConn, March 20-21. Location ................................................ Omaha, Neb. games. Darby Pandolfo paces the ................................................................ 1878 Founded team with a .478 on-base percentage The Bluejays won the opening game of ..........................................................8,770 Enrollment (six hits, five walks) and .588 slugging the weekend 2-1, but dropped the final ......................................................Bluejays Nickname percentage (four doubles) in BIG EAST two by scores of 9-1 and 10-5. ................................................Blue and White Colors games. ..................................... NCAA Division I Affiliation Creighton managed only 15 hits during ................................................. BIG EAST Conference Pandolfo also leads the team during the three contests. ...Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., Ph.D. President all games with 18 hits (.360 average), ...............Bruce Rasmussen Director of Athletics six doubles, two home runs, 11 RBIs UConn hit eight home runs during the .......................................................... Lisa Chipps SWA and 11 walks. weekend, including a pair of three- Athletics Ticket Office ................. 402-280-5297 run long balls in the series finale on The Pirates rank fifth in the BIG EAST March 21. Bluejay Softball with a .271 batting average during 18 Head Coach ........................................Brent Vigness overall games and averages 4.2 runs Vigness Nearing 800 Creighton Wins Alma Mater ......Central College (Iowa), 1988 per game. Head coach Brent Vigness owns a Career Record / Years .......... 945-674-4 / 32 797-603-3 record at the helm of the Record at CU / Years .............797-603-3 / 27 Kelsey Carr and Shelby Smith have Bluejays and needs only three wins to Assistant Coach ......... Renae Sinkler-O’Gorman combined to strikeout 42 batters become the first Creighton athletics Alma Mater .............................. Creighton, 2011 during 42 innings of conference head coach to reach 800 wins. Home Field ..................Creighton Sports Complex action and walked only 18 to lead the Capacity ........................................................1,000 pitching staff. He earned his 700th win at Creighton Surface ............. AstroTurf® GameDay Grass™ on March 10, 2016 against South Dimensions .......................... Lines 190; CF 215 Smith, a left-handed pitcher, owns Dakota State. 2020 Overall Record ........................................ 13-12 a 2.83 ERA with 21 strikeouts in 17 Home ................................................................. 0-0 1/3 innings, while Carr (right-handed) Vigness is one of five active Creighton Away ................................................................... 1-2 has tossed 24 innings and struck out coaches with more than 350 wins as a Neutral ...........................................................12-10 21 with a 3.79 ERA. Bluejay head coach. 2020 BIG EAST Record/Finish ...................... N/A Letterwinners Returning/Lost ......................17/5 For the entire season, Carr owns a A Central College (Iowa) grad, Vigness Newcomers .................................................................6 team-low 4.31 ERA and Seton Hall- took over for the Bluejays prior to the Conference Regular-Season Titles ....................9 best 46 strikeouts in 50 1/3 innings, 1994 season after spending five years Conference Tournament Titles ...........................9 while Smith has 43 strikeouts in 39 as head coach at Assumption College NCAA Tournament Appearances ..................... 12 innings and a 4.67 ERA. in Worchester, Massachusetts. College World Series Appearances ....................2 Sports Information Head coach Paige Smith is in her Coach, Sport Wins (as of 4/1/21) ninth season at the helm of the Pirates. Brent Vigness, Softball 797* Softball SID ........................... Anthony Robinson Ed Servais, Baseball 569* Office Phone .................................. 402-280-5801 Series History Against Pirates Mary Higgins, Softball 564 E-mail ........... [email protected] Tom Lilly, Men’s & Women’s Tennis 474* Creighton leads the all-time series Athletic Website ......................GoCreighton.com Kirsten Bernthal Booth, Volleyball 381* against Seton Hall, 10-7. Twitter ...................................... @BluejaySoftball Jim Flanery, Women’s Basketball 356* Facebook ..................................Creighton Softball Ed Hubbs, Men’s & Women’s Tennis 347 The Bluejays and Pirates closed the Instagram ................................CreightonSoftball Dana Altman, Men’s Basketball 327 2019 season with a three-game series * still active coaching at Creighton in Omaha. Cantu Reaches 200-Hit Plateau Seton Hall took both games of a Fifth-year senior outfielder Ashley doubleheader on March 4, 2019 before Cantu reached the 200-hit plateau on Creighton claimed a 9-7 win during March 12 against Providence. the final game of the weekend a day lateras both teams combined for seven The Frisco, Texas native recorded home runs in the season finale. her 200th hit with an infield single during the top of the seventh inning in the second game of a doubleheader 2021 Honors Parker Boyd BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (3/8) Ashley Cantu BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (3/15) Kailey Wilson BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (3/8) against the Friars. 2017: 6-6 Wilson also recorded a hit during each 2016: 7-8 contest, including three in the final Cantu became the ninth player in 2015: 4-9 game of the trip. program history to record 200 or more 2014: 9-6 hits. Boyd led the Creighton pitching staff Long Time Between BIG EAST Games with a 16 2/3 innings of work. She earned a spot on the BIG EAST The Bluejays’ game against Providence Weekly Honor after leading the on March 12 was Creighton’s first BIG The graduate transfer posted a 2.10 Bluejays with five hits and four runs EAST game since May 5, 2019 (9-7 ERA and 14 strikeouts, while recording scored against Providence.