Upcoming Event: Softball versus UCSB on February 6, 2026 at 2 p.m.

4/9/2018 12:21 PM | Softball
Utes and Thunderbirds play single game
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ON DECK
Utah hosts Southern Utah for a single game on Tuesday at 5 p.m. Admission is free at Dumke Family Softball Stadium
UTAH NOTES
- Utah is currently No. 37Â in the latest RPI and its strength of schedule is rated fourth-hardest in the country
- Alyssa Barrera was named to the USA Softball Player of the Year "Watch List", one of nine sophomores on the 50-person list
- Katie Donovan is the active Pac-12 leader in career, strikeouts, saves, starts, innings and appearances and ranks second in wins
- Donovan is ninth in the Pac-12 with 113Â strikeouts and Miranda Viramontes is 11th in the nation with four saves to her credit
- After not having a pitcher toss 10 strikeouts in a game over the last six seasons, bothDonovan and Viramontes did it at the Maryland Invitational
- Heather Bowen is batting .327 and is sixth in the nation with 15 doubles. As a team, Utah sits seventh in the nation in doubles per game (1.74)
- At the Mary Nutter Classic this season, head coach Amy Hogue won her 300th game at Utah and 500th game of her career.Â
DONOVAN CLIMBING CAREER CHARTS
Katie Donovan now has 64 wins for her career, matching Michele Townsend for fourth place in Utah history. She needs five more W's to catch Janet Womack in the record book.
The senior also needs 58Â more strikeouts to catch Kristen Arbogast for second place in Utah history. Donovan also recently moved past Ali Andrus for third place in total appearances by a Ute hurler.Â
WEEKEND RECAP
Utah suffered a sweep at the hands of No. 1 Washington in Seattle. The Utes managed just three hits during the series and hit .050 as a team over 19 innings of play. The pitching also struggled, allowing 19 runs over 16 innings and amassing a team ERA of 7.44