Utah Valley travels to Texas this weekend for a three-game WAC series with the Abilene Christian Wildcats on Friday and Saturday.

The Wolverines and Wildcats will play a doubleheader on Friday beginning at 1 p.m. MDT, then wrap up the series on Saturday at 11 a.m. MDT. All three games will be streamed on ESPN+, with live stats available at GoUVU.com/stats. With rain in the forecast on Saturday, be sure to follow UVU Softball on Instagram and X for any potential updates.

LAST TIME OUT
Utah Valley secured a 4-3 win over the BYU Cougars in Provo on Tuesday in the Crosstown Clash, marking the first time the Wolverines have won back-to-back road games in the series and won a game in three-straight seasons against BYU.

Payge Armendariz went the distance, holding the Cougars to two extra-base hits on the evening, and picking up a pair of timely double plays to get out of jams in the middle innings. Angelique Mann drove in two to lead the offensive effort.

QUICK HITTERS
Britney Moreno enters this weekend's series on a 17-game reached-base streak, her second such streak of 15 games or more this season. Moreno has reached safely in all but three games this year (St. Thomas, Utah, and Pacific G2), and also enters the weekend on a nine-game hitting streak.

Tatum Hall enters the weekend riding a seven-game hitting streak after putting up historic numbers last week. Hall went 10-for-14 with two HRs, four 2Bs, 14 RBIs, and 7 runs scored. 13 of those RBIs came between Tuesday's win at WSU and Friday's DH vs UTA, the most in any three-game span in program history. Hall's four 2Bs, 10 hits, 14 RBIs, and 20 total bases each were the most in the country over the last week.

Bailey Marvin contributed in a big way last week after going hitless in her previous 7 games. Marvin went 8-for-12 with a HR, a 2B, 3 BBs, and 10 RBIs to provide Hall some protection out of the cleanup spot. Marvin is tied for 2nd on the team with 28 RBIs behind Hall's 41.

With their next stolen base, the Wolverines will reach 50 stolen bases in a season for the 7th time ever and first time since 2022.

SERIES HISTORY VS ACU
Utah Valley and Abilene Christian play their fourth and final series as WAC rivals this weekend. UVU will join The Big West while ACU shifts to the UAC beginning next season. UVU holds an 8-3 overall record against ACU, with a 2-1 road record. 

ACU won the regular season series in Orem, two games to one, but the Wolverines got the last laugh, eliminating the Wildcats in the WAC Tournament play-in game, 8-0 in Riverside. During the last series in Abilene in 2024, UVU turned one of its two triple plays in program history, a lineout that got the Wolverines out of a bases-loaded jam with only one run allowed.

MORENO CHASING ANOTHER TRIPLES RECORD
On March 21 vs Utah Tech, Moreno made program history by breaking UVU's D-I era triples record with the 12th of her career. Entering this week, Moreno ranks t-7th nationally with 5 triples this season, as well as t-13th among active D-I players for their career. With her next triple, Moreno would match the single-season record of 6, set by Chris Jimenez in 2005, and move into the top 10 all-time in WAC history.

HALL'S UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS FROM THE LEFT SIDE
With 12 games still left in the regular season, Tatum Hall has already put up arguably the best offensive season by a left-handed batter in program history. Her 9 home runs are the most in a single season by a LHB in the team's full-status D-I era (since 2010), and is five RBIs away from posting the most in program history by a LHB (record: 45, Kalena Shepherd, 2022; Heidi Stocks, 2008). Her .804 SLG% is on pace to break the overall single-season record by any batter.

KEEPING IT .400
Entering this weekend, Utah Valley has two hitters hitting .400 or better in Tatum Hall (.431) and Britney Moreno (.423). Since becoming full-status D-I members in 2010, Utah Valley has had just one hitter hit .400 or better for a full season, Madison Carr in 2022. Carr set the single-season hits record with 82 en route to a .453 batting average.

UP NEXT
The Wolverines will return home for the final home series of the season against the Tarleton State Texans. The two teams will play a doubleheader on Friday starting at 4 p.m. MDT, then wrap up the series with Senior Day on Saturday beginning at noon. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+, with live stats available at GoUVU.com/stats.