Softball Concludes Senior Day with Sweep Over UTEP

Sunday, April 30

Mary Bowers Field

12 PM

UAB

28-21, 15-6

University of Texas at El Paso

11-31, 2-19

UTEP

UAB

Softball Concludes Senior Day with Sweep Over UTEP

4/30/2023 6:21:00 PM | Softball

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BIRMINGHAM – UAB Softball concluded their home campaign at Mary Bowers Field with a victory over UTEP on Senior Sunday. The Blazers closed out with an 8-5 win over the Miners to improve to a record of 28-21 and 15-6 in Conference USA.

"Very proud to be able to send these seniors off with a home sweep," said head coach AJ Daugherty. "UTEP is a good offensive team, and for us to hold them to seven runs over the weekend speaks to our pitching and defensive efforts. The offense did their part in collecting double digit hits and producing 18 runs for the series."

UAB improves to a six-game win streak in conference play and seven games overall. The Green and Gold finish their homestand with a record of 18-10.

UAB (8) UTEP (5)
The Blazers and Miners went into a defensive duel, with Sarah Cespedes delivering a strikeout for the first at-bat of the game. After giving up two singles, Cespedes finished with a strikeout to conclude the first. In the bottom of the inning, a fielder's choice from Bella Wiggins kept a Blazer on base. With one runner still on, Sierra Frazier hit into a double play to conclude the first.

After a quick second and third inning with three hits between both teams, UTEP entered the fourth inning with a leadoff double and sacrifice bunt to put a runner in scoring position. After a groundout brought the top half of the inning to two outs, UTEP's Richard hit an RBI single to left field to send a Miner across home plate, putting the score at 1-0.

In the bottom half of the fourth, Lauren Brock delivered a leadoff base hit, followed by Bella Wiggins sending another single to put two Blazers on base. Frazier came to bat with a third consecutive hit, giving Brock the scoring run. The Blazers and Miners were tied at 1-1 with two runners on base before Lindsey Smith sent a three-run shot to left field to give UAB the 4-1 lead.

Following the scoring rally, the Green and Gold had a three-up-three-down to bring the offense back into play, where Lindsey Smith delivered another RBI off of a sac fly to give UAB the 5-1 lead. UTEP responded in the sixth with two hits on one run to close the scoring margin to 5-2.

With a leadoff base hit from Cassady Greenwood, a double play brought the inning to its final out, the Blazers went into another rally with a base hit from Alyssa Aguilar. After a base hit from Hannah Miles, Lauren Brock delivered a 2 RBI base hit and advanced to third on a throwing error before scoring to give the Blazers three runs on four hits in the bottom of the sixth.

In the final inning of the game, the Green and Gold entered Bailey Tindell in the circle. A flyball out left the bases empty before UTEP crept a base hit and walked a runner. The Miners then sent a three-run homer to center field to close the scoring gap to 8-5. The Miners delivered another hit, but the Blazer defense finished with a flyball out and groundout from Olivia Valbak to give the Blazers the series sweep.

IN THE BOX

UAB finished the weekend with 29 hits. Lauren Brock led the Blazers in hits on Sunday with two and scored three runs.
Sarah Cespedes finished the day with a 7-8 W/L record with three strikeouts. She faced 26 batters over six innings.
The Blazers only left three runners on base to UTEP's seven runners left.
No one on the UAB batting lineup struck out throughout the duration of competition.

UP NEXT
The Blazers return to action Friday, May 5 through Sunday May 7 to take on the Charlotte 49ers in the Queen City for the regular season finale. First pitch begins Friday at 5 PM CT at Daughtridge Stadium.

"We still have room to grow and work to do as we head into a big weekend on the road." said coach Daugherty.

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