UTAH VALLEY AT NEVADA
Saturday, May 5-Sunday, May 6    
1 p.m. MT/12 p.m. PT & 3 p.m. MT/2 p.m. PT (SAT DH) | 1 p.m. MT/12 p.m. PT (SUN)
Christina M. Hixson Softball Park  |  Reno, Nev.
Live Video (SAT GAME 1 ONLY) | Live Stats | UVU Notes | Nevada Notes
 

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WOLVERINES SET TO CLOSE REGULAR-SEASON THIS WEEKEND IN RENO
OREM, Utah – Fresh off of finishing Western Athletic Conference play in second place and earning the No. 2 seed for next week's WAC Tournament, the Utah Valley University softball team will close its 2018 regular season with a three-game non-conference series at Nevada of the Mountain West Conference this weekend.
 
The Wolverines and Wolf Pack will first play a doubleheader on Saturday at Hixon Softball Park in Reno beginning at 1 p.m. MT/noon PT. The two teams will then close the series with the finale at 1 p.m. MT/noon PT on Sunday. Live stats will be available for all three games on the weekend by visiting NevadaStats.com, and live video will also be streamed for Saturday's first game via the Mountain West Network.
 
After sweeping its final conference series over CSU Bakersfield last weekend to post its best finish in program history since joining the WAC five seasons ago by taking second with a 10-4 league record, UVU (19-25) then stepped out of conference play for an in-state battle with neighboring foe BYU on Tuesday. The Cougars got the best of the Wolverines for the second time on the season by earning an 11-3 run-rule UCCU Crosstown Clash victory.
 
Despite falling to BYU on Tuesday, Madison Sisco hit out her team-leading seventh home run of the year in the contest for Utah Valley. Sisco led the UVU offense by going 1-for-2 with three runs batted in and a run scored, while Brianna Moeller and Peyton Angulo each went 1-for-2 as well with a run scored apiece. Sisco's two-run homer in the third make it a 7-3 score, but BYU later tacked on three more runs in the bottom of the third and another in the fourth to put the game away.
 
Moeller paces UVU offensively on the season with a .366 batting average, 27 runs scored and a total of 16 extra-base hits, while Sisco leads the way in home runs with seven and Lyndsay Steverson tops the team in RBIs with 31. Makayla Shadle and Addie Jensen lead the way in the circle for the Wolverines, as Shadle is 6-8 with a team-best 3.24 ERA and Jensen holds a 9-9 record and a 3.47 ERA.
 
Utah Valley will enter the series having won nine of its last 12 ballgames.
 
ABOUT NEVADA
The Wolf Pack will enter the weekend with a 20-23 overall record and currently in fifth place in the Mountain West standings with a 9-11 league record. Nevada will enter the series having dropped five of its last six ballgames. After getting swept by Boise State on April 20-22, the Wolf Pack bounced back by taking one of three at in-state foe UNLV last weekend. Nevada was picked to finish fifth in the MWC this season.
 
Erika Hansen paces the Wolf Pack offense with a .372 batting average, 12 home runs and 46 RBIs, while Kenzi Goins is next with a .364 clip as well as six homers and 35 runs batted in. Amanda Geil leads the team in the circle with a 5-2 record and a 2.78 ERA. Julia Jensen is Nevada's work horse, as she holds a 10-10 record and a 4.31 ERA while leading the way in innings pitched (149.1), complete games (14) and games started (23).
 
Saturday's opener will mark the 14th all-time meeting between the Wolverines and the Wolf Pack. Nevada will enter play holding to an 11-2 series lead after recording a 10-4 win over UVU at the Red Desert Classic in St. George, Utah, but Utah Valley has won two the last five contests against the Wolf Pack including an 11-7 win in Reno last season.
 
ON DECK FOR UVU
Following the final series of the regular season, Utah Valley will head to Las Cruces, New Mexico, for the 2018 WAC Tournament. By earning a first-round bye, the second-seeded Wolverines will open play on Thursday, May 10 at 1 p.m. against either No. 3 Seattle U or No. 6 UMKC. The winner of that contest will advance on to the tournament's semifinal game, while the loser will drop to an elimination game that will be played later in the day. The winner of the conference tournament will receive the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.