2015 TEXAS STATE SOFTBALL GAME NOTES // TROY Softball SID: Jen Lawson // Email: jlawson@txstate.edu // Office: 512-245-2988 // Cell: 217-369-4402 // Web: txstatebobcats.com
Record: 22-18; 6-5 SBC Head Coach: Ricci Woodard Career Record: 506-337-1 Home Venue: Bobcat Softball Stadium
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Record: 27-7, 5-1 Big 12 Head Coach: Beth Mullins Career Record: 24-17 Home Venue: Trojan Softball Complex
Date: April 11-12, 2015 Location: San Marcos, Texas Live Stats: txstatebobcats.com Series Record: Series tied at 2-2 Last Game: Troy won 2-0 Last Game Date: 4/27/14 Radio Coverage: 89.9 FM KTSW
SCOUTING THE COMPETITION TROY The Trojans of Troy enter the weekend conference series with a 2417 overall record and 7-5 mark in the Sun Belt Conference.
LAST TIME OUT FOR TXST Texas State is coming off of a 6-1 loss against No. 14 Baylor this past Wednesday. The Bobcat offense was highlighted by Kelli Baker’s second triple of the season and 18th RBI of the year.
Hannah Day leads the Trojans at the plate with a batting average of .320. She has hit a team-high 39 hits with eight doubles, a pair of triples, and five home runs. Her 34 RBI is also a team-high.
ATTENDANCE BARRIERS Against the Longhorns last Friday, Texas State welcomed the second-largest crowd of 986 to the Bobcat Softball Stadium. The largest crowd was in the stadium opener on February 18, 2009 against Texas A&M. There were 1,353 people at that game.
As a team, the Trojans are hitting .253 from the plate while allowing their opponents a .275 average. Troy has hit 41 home runs as a team while giving up just 21. Jaycee Affeldt is the primary pitcher for the Trojans with 127.0 inning of work in the circle with a 2.59 ERA. Affeldt has struck out a team-high 100 batters and opponents only after .237 against her. The Trojans are under the direction of Beth Mullins who is currently in her first season at the helm of Troy. Coming into the weekend, Troy is sitting in fourth place in the nine team league.
NO-HITTER, NO PROBLEM Randi Rupp struck out 11 and was just a hit by pitch away from a perfect game, leading Texas State to its first no-hitter since 2012 against UL Monroe on March 23, 2015. That was the fourth game this season that Rupp had struck out double-digit batters. She has now done it FIVE times with a total of 210 on the year. MAKE THAT TWO! With a 5-for-6 showing with five RBI and four walks against Georgia Southern, junior Kendall Wiley earned her second Player of
PROJECTED LINEUP: 2015 #’s AVG | H | RBI
DP-Kortney Koroll .330 | 32 | 26
Braegan Hamilton .229 | 11 | 3
Kimberlin Naivar .246 | 15 | 11
Bianca Prado .114 | 8 | 2
PITCHING STAFF: Kaylee Garner 3-3 | 5.49 | 37.0 Randi Rupp 16-11 | 3.17 | 183.1 Taylor Webb 2-3 | 7.57 | 37.0
Ariel Ortiz .364 | 44 | 28
Kelli Baker .324 | 45 | 18
Courtney Harris .333 | 37 | 21
Kendall Wiley .395 | 47 | 37 Sara Rupp .182 | 14 | 13
Ashley Wright 1-1 | 9.55 | 7.1
DATE OPPONENT TIME 2/6 Sam Houston State^ W, 6-1 2/6 Northern Illinois^ W, 14-5 2/7 Sam Houston State^ W, 15-6 2/7 Pittsburgh^ L, 6-11 2/8 Northern Illinois^ L, 3-8 2/13 Grand Canyon# L, 3-4 2/13 Texas Tech# L, 2-5 2/14 Texas Tech# W, 3-0 2/14 UTSA# L, 3-6 2/15 Texas Tech# W, 2-0 2/20 UMass-Lowell% L, 7-9 2/20 UAB% W, 7-1 2/21 Florida International% W, 8-0 2/21 Robert Morris% L, 5-7 2/22 Wichita State% W, 4-3 2/22 Harvard% W, 9-2 2/26 No. 16 Auburn@ L, 2-6 2/27 SIU-Edwardsville@ L, 2-10 2/27 Samford@ L, 1-2 2/28 Connecticut@ W, 7-1 2/28 Connecticut@ W, 9-0 3/7 Georgia Southern - DH* W, 4-1, W, 10-2 (5) 3/8 Georgia Southern* W, 5-3 3/11 Lamar W, 8-0 (5) 3/14 Georgia State - DH* L, 2-5, L, 4-13 3/15 Georgia State* W, 5-4 (9) 3/18 Stephen F. Austin - DH W, 1-0 (8), W 9-0 (5) 3/23 UL Monroe* - DH W, 9-0, L, 4-7 3/25 McNeese State W, 4-3 3/28 No. 8 UL Lafayette - DH* W, 14-13, L, 2-15 (5) 3/28 No. 8 UL Lafayette* L, 0-4 4/1 Incarnate Word W, 1-0 4/3 No. 25 Texas L, 2-10 (5) 4/4 No. 25 Texas L, 5-6 4/8 No. 14 Baylor L, 1-6 4/11 Troy - DH* 1 p.m. 4/12 Troy* 12 p.m. 4/15 Houston Baptist 6 p.m. 4/18 South Alabama - DH* 1 p.m. 4/19 South Alabama* 12 p.m. 4/22 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 6 p.m. 4/25 Appalachian State - DH* 1 p.m. 4/26 Appalachian State* 12 p.m. 4/29 Texas A&M 6:30 p.m. 5/2 UT Arlington - DH* 1 p.m. 5/3 UT Arlington* 12 p.m. 5/6-9 SBC Tournament TBA All times listed are Central Time Bold denotes home game ^ denotes Hampton Inn & Suites Tournament # denotes CenturyLink Classic % denotes EMU Madeira Beach Spring Invitational @ denotes Wilson/DeMarini Classic * denotes Sun Belt Conference Game All home games are played at Bobcat Softball Stadium Live Stats: sidearmstats.com/txstate/softball Live Video (home): txstatebobcats.com/showcase Twitter: @TXStateSoftball // @TXStateBobcats Facebook: facebook.com/TxStateBobcats Text Messages: txstatebobcats.com/txst Web: txstatebobcats.com