2017 UCLAUCLA SOFTBALL WEEKLY B RELEASERUINS • MAY 17, 2017 • PAGE 1 SOFTBALL SOFTBALL CONTACT: JAMES YBIERNAS • OFFICE: (310) 206-8123 • CELL: (818) 635-8873 • E-MAIL: [email protected] • WWW.UCLABRUINS.COM 2017 UCLA S CHEDULE AND R ESULTS LOS ANGELES NCAA REGIONAL • MAY 19-21 • EASTON STADIUM OVERALL: 42-13 P AC -12: 16-8 2/10 South Dakota 2 W, 6-0 Friday, May 19 Sunday, May 21 Game 1 - San Jose State (V) vs. CS Fullerton (H) 6 p.m. Game 6 - Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 5 4 p.m. 2/10 at San Diego State 2 W, 8-0 (6) Game 2 - Lehigh (V) vs. #5-seed UCLA (H) 8:30 p.m. Game 7 - Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6 (if nec.) 6:30 p.m. 2/11 WEBER STATE 2 W, 4-1 2 2/11 WEBER STATE W, 22-1 (5) Saturday, May 20 TV (All Games): ESPN Family of Networks 2/12 #22/#22 NOTRE DAME 2 W, 8-0 (5) Game 3 - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 2 p.m. Live Audio (All UCLA Games): UCLABruins.com 2/15 #22/#23 KENTUCKY D W, 6-2 Game 4 - Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 4:30 p.m. Live Stats: UCLABruins.com 2/15 #22/#23 KENTUCKY D L, 1-2 (11) Game 5 - Loser Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4 7 p.m. Twitter Updates: @UCLASoftball 2/17 vs. Cal Poly 3 W, 3-1 2/17 vs. UCF 3 W, 1-0 FIFTH-SEEDED BRUINS HOST LEHIGH ON FRIDAY fourth Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honor. 2/19 vs. UC Davis 3 W, 9-1 (6) The fi fth-seeded Bruins begin the 2017 L.A. NCAA Regional on In her fi nal Pac-12 series, Spaulding had eight hits in 12 at-bats 2/19 vs. Liberty 3 W, 7-1 Friday night, hosting Lehigh at Easton Stadium at 8:30 p.m. The (.667) during the Bruins’ three-game sweep at Arizona State last 2/23 vs. #11/#12 Georgia 4 W, 10-5 game will air on ESPN2 and will also feature free live audio on weekend, scoring nine runs, driving in fi ve and hitting a pair of 2/23 vs. North Carolina State 4 W, 8-3 UCLABruins.com. The L.A. Regional begins at 6 p.m. on Friday home runs. Garcia was 5-for-11 (.455) at the plate with a homer, when San Jose State and Cal State Fullerton square off, continues three RBI and two runs scored, while going 2-0 in the circle with a 2/24 vs. #4/#5 Oklahoma 4 L, 1-10 (5) on Saturday with three games, including two elimination contests, pair of complete games and 11 strikeouts in 12 innings. 2/25 vs. #7/#8 LSU 4 W, 6-5 (8) and concludes with one or two games on Sunday. Spaulding’s Player of the Week award is her fi rst of the season 4 2/26 vs. #1/#1 Florida State L, 1-2 and third of her career. She won the honor once as a sophomore 5 3/2 vs. #14/#14 Michigan W, 4-0 WHAT’S NEXT on March 9, 2015 and once last season on March 14, 2016. 3/3 vs. #3/#1 Florida 5 L, 4-9 The winner of the Los Angeles Regional will advance to next UCLA has won 79 Pac-10/12 Player of the Week awards. 3/4 at Cal State Fullerton 5 W, 2-0 weekend’s Super Regional, facing the winner of the Oxford Garcia picked up her seventh weekly honor, having won Pac-12 3/5 vs. RV/RV South Carolina 5 W, 5-2 Regional, which features #12-seed Ole Miss, North Carolina, Freshman of the Week four times (April 25, April 11 and March 3/5 vs. #22/#22 Baylor 5 L, 6-11 Arizona State and Southern Illinois. 28) and Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week three times (April 25, April 3/10 vs. Eastern Michigan 6 W, 8-0 (5) 11, Feb. 21). The award is the sixth Freshman of the Week honor 3/10 vs. Longwood 6 W, 8-0 (5) BRUINS IN THE POLLS for UCLA in just the third year the accolade has been bestowed. UCLA closed the regular season at eighth in the USA Today/NFCA 3/11 vs. Boston University 6 W, 6-1 poll and ninth in the ESPN.com/USA Softball rankings. NEWS AND NOTES 3/11 at Long Beach State 6 W, 1-0 The Bruins recorded the program’s 1,800th victory with their 3/12 RV/RV TEXAS W, 3-2 BRUINS IN NCAA REGIONAL PLAY win on March 26 against Dartmouth ... UCLA had 17 comeback 3/17 #20/#21 UTAH 1 L, 1-2 UCLA is making its 33rd appearance in the NCAA Tournament victories last season and have 12 this season, including three 3/18 #20/#21 UTAH 1 L, 2-7 (tied for the most in history with Fresno State) and holds a record walk-off wins ... redshirt freshman Rachel Garcia didn’t allow 3/19 #20/#21 UTAH 1 L, 0-4 of 195-53 (.786). During the Regional round, the Bruins are 90- an earned run in 16 straight innings from April 21-26, striking 3/25 RV/RV BYU W, 1-0 14 (.865) and have gone undefeated 22 times, including each of out 18, and also didn’t give up a run in 7 2/3 frames (May 5-6) 3/25 RV/RV BYU W, 4-2 the last three seasons. Since Regional play moved to a four-team versus Arizona to earn a win and a save. In her 37 appearances, 3/26 DARTMOUTH W, 4-2 format in 2005, the Bruins are 32-9 (.780), advancing to the she has given up zero or one earned run in 24 of them ... Garcia, who had a season-best, eight-game hitting streak from April 3/31 at #8/#8 Washington 1 W, 6-2 Supers in ‘05, ‘06, ‘08, ‘09, ‘10, ‘14, ‘15 and ‘16. UCLA is hosting a Regional for the 22nd time and is 56-5 (.918) in 21 previous 14-28, has hits in 20 of her last 25 games to raise her average 4/1 at #8/#8 Washington 1 W, 9-8 Regionals at Easton and 68-10 (.872) overall during postseason from .261 to .329. She has reached base in 16 games in a row 1 4/2 at #8/#8 Washington L, 7-12 games in Westwood. The entire UCLA NCAA postseason history is ... junior Johanna Grauer posted her 11th win of the season at 1 4/7 #2/#1 OREGON W, 2-0 available on the penultimate page of this release. Arizona State last Friday. She has double fi gures in wins in all 4/8 #2/#1 OREGON 1 W, 1-0 (9) three seasons ... sophomore Paige Halstead posted her 10th 4/9 #2/#1 OREGON 1 L, 4-11 GARCIA NAMED PAC-12 FOY, FIVE BRUINS HONORED multiple-hit game of the season when she had a single and a 4/13 at Oregon State 1 L, 0-8 (5) Rachel Garcia was named Pac-12 Conference Freshman of the double last Thursday at ASU. She also drove in a run on a single 4/14 at Oregon State 1 W, 7-5 Year, as announced on Monday, and was one of fi ve Bruins to in Saturday’s regular-season fi nale ... junior Madeline Jelenicki 4/15 at Oregon State 1 L, 5-8 receive All-Conference honors. set a career high with a nine-game hitting streak from April 26- 4/18 CAL STATE FULLERTON W, 7-3 Garcia is the sixth Bruin to earn Pac-10/12 Newcomer or May 12, batting .367 (11-for-30) with two homers and 18 RBI Freshman of the Year honors, joining Tanya Harding (1995), Julie during that stretch. The team leader in multi-RBI contests at 16 4/21 RV/#22 CALIFORNIA 1 W, 3-2 Adams (1996), Stacey Nuveman (1997), Anjelica Selden (2005) has fi ve in her last 10 games ... senior Gabrielle Maurice had a 4/22 RV/#22 CALIFORNIA 1 W, 3-1 and Stephany LaRosa (2012). 10-game hitting streak from April 14-30, batting .375 (12-for-32) 1 4/23 RV/#22 CALIFORNIA W, 8-1 Garcia, who was also named All-Freshman Team, was joined on with two RBI. She posted three hits in a game for the 10th time 4/26 at CSUN W, 5-0 the All-Pac-12 First Team by senior Delaney Spaulding and juniors in her career when she had three singles last Thursday at ASU ... 4/28 at Stanford 1 W, 13-8 Madeline Jelenicki and Kylee Perez. Freshman Bubba Nickles freshman Bubba Nickles has hits in 12 of her last 16 contests, 4/29 at Stanford 1 W, 6-5 picked up All-Pac-12 Second and Freshman Team accolades, including all three at ASU. She posted her fi rst three-hit game of 4/30 at Stanford 1 W, 8-1 while Perez and Spaulding were selected to the All-Pac-12 the season on Friday in Tempe with two singles and a solo homer 5/5 #3/#3 ARIZONA 1 W, 8-0 (5) Defensive Team. ... junior Kylee Perez had seven hits in the ASU series, including 5/6 #3/#3 ARIZONA 1 W, 6-0 Spaulding became the 29th Bruin to receive four All-Conference four in the fi nal game of the regular season.