Sunday, April 1
Wichita State 14, South Florida 0 (5) – Box Score
Tulsa 7, Memphis 0 – Box Score
UCF 4, East Carolina 0 – Box Score
 
Recaps
Wichita State 14, South Florida 0 (5) – Box Score
WICHITA, Kan. – No. 23 Wichita State scored 10 runs in the bottom of the fourth to blow by South Florida in five innings, 14-0, Saturday afternoon at Wilkins Stadium.
 
Wichita State (29-7, 4-1 The American) secured its second straight conference series win to open conference play. The Shockers will also claim a regular season series over the Bulls for the first time since 2019.
 
Sydney McKinney recorded her second straight three-hit game, going 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBI. McKinney is 6-for-8 in the two games vs. South Florida. Lauren Lucas upped her RBI total to nine in the series. She was 2-for-4 with a triple and five RBI.
 
McKinney's career hit total now stands at 345, tied for the 18th most in NCAA history. With her three hits on Saturday she passed Oklahoma's Jocelyn Alo.
 
Addison Barnard homered for the second straight game in a 2-for-2 day with four runs scored and two stolen bases. Lainee Brown doubled and drove in two, Sami Hood singled twice, and Krystin Nelson scored twice to go with a single.
 
Freshman Alex Aguilar was lights out in the circle. She registered her fourth complete game shutout, allowing only four hits in 5.0 innings. Aguilar struck out two and walked none.
 
Wichita State scratched out an early run in the bottom of the first on a Zoe Jones' RBI fielder's choice.
 
The Shockers made it 4-0 in the bottom of the second behind a Brown RBI double and Lucas two-run single up the middle.
 
After a scoreless third, the floodgates opened in the fourth. The first three Shockers reached on a Nelson single, McKinney fielder's choice and Barnard walk to load the bases for the second straight night with Lucas stepping into the box. For the second straight game, Lucas promptly unloaded the bases. This time the Texas native cleared the bags with her fifth triple of the season. She would be tagged out trying to score on a wild pitch in the next at bat.
 
Jones walked, Mills was hit by a pitch and Hood singled to load the bases once again. Sedlacek worked a bases loaded walk and Brown grounded into an RBI ground-out to make it 9-0.
 
Bailey Urban drew a pinch hit walk to again put a Shocker on every bag, setting the stage for McKinney. The senior unloaded a 3-2 pitch over the wall in right-center for her first career grand slam and fourth homer of the season.
 
In the very next at bat, Barnard belted a solo shot over the wall in left, nearly making it into the street. Barnard made it two straight games that she was involved in back-to-back home runs, Friday night with Lucas.
 
Tulsa 7, Memphis 0 – Box Score
TULSA, Okla. – Maura Moore set a season-high in strikeouts and hurled the 24th no-hitter in school history, second of the season, as the University of Tulsa softball team blanked Memphis 7-0 at the Collins Family Softball Complex on Saturday afternoon.
 
Moore (10-6) struck out 11 batters overall and fanned at least two in five separate innings to help Tulsa (16-16, 2-0 The American) secure the series win against the Tigers (5-29, 0-5 The American). The no-no was the second of her young Tulsa career and the first seven-inning no-hitter since Samantha Pochop no-hit the Nebraska Cornhuskers on March 17, 2019.
 
The sophomore only allowed two base runners, one of which was quickly eliminated thanks to Rylee Keith and Abby Jones catching her attempting to steal. Moore picked up her 10th complete game, fourth shutout, and is up to 70 strikeouts for the season.
 
Thanks to Tulsa's hitting, the game was put away early. Keith hit her third home run of the season, second of the series, in the second inning with a two-run blast. Haley Morgan finished the day with a pair of big hits. She led off the game with a triple and later drove in two with a single down the line. Morgan added her 10th stolen base as well.
 
MacKenzie Denson drove in an RBI and had a stolen base, while Claira Skaggs and Kailyn Bearpaw each added hits and an RBI apiece. Celeste Wood had a pair of base knocks in the win and came around to score twice.
 
UCF 4, East Carolina 0 – Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – Knights right-hander Sarah Willis was masterful in shutting out the ECU Pirates in the teams' series-opener Friday evening, and Grace Jewell matched her almost pitch-for-pitch in game two.
 
The latter etched another chapter in her breakout junior season, tossing her team-leading fifth complete-game shutout and leading UCF (22-18, 3-2 The American) to a 4-0 victory while also assuring her squad a series win Saturday evening at Max R. Joyner Family Stadium.
 
The Chesapeake, Virginia, native yielded only a trio of hits and two walks while collecting five punchouts throughout the contest, her highest single-game total since her season debut against the Boise State Broncos, when she racked up a career-high seven strikeouts Feb. 10.
 
Already staked to a 1-0 lead thanks to an Aubrey Evans RBI single that plated Kennedy Searcy in the top of the first, Jewell produced a quick bottom half to keep the momentum on her team's side. She utilized a pair of groundouts and her first strikeout of the game to work around a two-out Pirates (22-14, 0-5 The American) single.
 
Beginning with the final out of the first frame, Jewell spun spotless second, third and fourth innings and retired the first ECU hitter of the fifth, setting down 11 consecutive Pirates before yielding a pair of baserunners in the fifth inning via a hit-by-pitch and a walk.
 
Her fourth strikeout of the game aided her in keeping ECU off the scoreboard, and she sat down seven of the final 10 hitters she faced in wrapping up her fifth complete game of the season. In the winning effort, Jewell lowered her career-best ERA to 2.39 (82 IP, 28 ER), and through 21 appearances (14 starts) has collected a season-high 49 strikeouts and limited opposing hitters to just a .186 average.
 
The righty was supported by two RBI singles by Evans, with her second coming in the top of the third inning, again scoring Searcy, on the heels of her first-inning run-scoring knock.
 
The contest marked Evans' second straight two-hit game, her third in her last six games and extended her hit streak to four straight contests. Since the Knights' March 19 game against No. 2 Oklahoma State when she hit her first collegiate home run, Evans has produced a team-leading .429 (9-for-21) average in seven games, adding four extra-base hits (three doubles and one home run), 15 total bases and five RBI.
 
Searcy, naturally, sparked the Knights' first two runs with two walks and a stolen base, maintaining perfection in her stolen base attempts this season with her 12th bag in 12 tries.
 
First baseman Shannon Doherty also enjoyed a productive day at the plate, finishing 2-for-3 with her first two doubles of the season and an RBI, the 112th of her collegiate career to move to within six of tying Hillary Barrow (118 RBI) for seventh on the UCF all-time list.