Tulsa's Maura Moore tossed a no-hitter in American Athletic Conference softball action on Friday, March 3.

Friday, March 3
New Mexico 7, Houston 1 - Box Score
Houston 11, Charlotte 3 (5 innings) - Box Score
East Carolina 2, Monmoth 1 - Box Score
Maryland 5, East Carolina 0 - Box Score
Tulsa 8, Tarleton State 0 (6 innings) - Box Score
South Dakota State 7, Tulsa 1 - Box Score
South Florida 8, Rhode Island 0 (5 innings) - Box Score
UCLA 2, UCF 1 - Box Score
LMU 8, UCF 2 - Box Score

New Mexico 7, Houston 1 - Box Score
Houston 11, Charlotte 3 (5 innings) - Box Score
TEMPE, Ariz. – The University of Houston softball team rallied in its second game of the day, cruising to a 11-3 run-rule win against Charlotte, who is receiving votes in the NFCA Coaches Poll, after a 7-1 loss in the Sun Devil Classic opener to New Mexico on Friday afternoon at Farrington Stadium.
 
Turiya Coleman and Emma Robertson both hit home runs for Houston (10-8) in the doubleheader. Coleman leads the team with four, while Robertson hit her second of the year. Coleman finished the day 4 for 7 with three extra base hits, while LA Matthews, earning the start at designated player in game two, finished 3 for 4. 
 
Game 1 - New Mexico 7, Houston 1
Houston jumped on the board in the second inning with Baylea Myers singling down the right field line to score Amanda Carden and put the Cougars up 1-0.
 
New Mexico (8-10) took the lead in the third with a pair of singles, driving home two runs to make the score 2-1 in favor or the Lobos. 
 
New Mexico added two additional runs in the fifth and three runs in the sixth to earn the 7-1 win.
 
Coleman ended the game 2 for 3 with a double and a walk in the game, her first start behind the plate this season, while Myers finished 1 for 3 with an RBI. 
 
Game 2 - Houston 11, Charlotte 3 (6 innings) 
The Cougars offense rebounded exceptionally in game two of the afternoon. Houston used five hits to score six runs capped by a three-run blast off the bat of Robertson. All six runs came with two outs in the inning, sparked by a two-out, bases empty single by Matthews.
 
Houston kept firing on all cylinders in the second inning as Coleman doubled to start the inning and was driven home by another Matthews single. Matthews later scored on a fielders choice and Britaney Shaw scored on a Paige Husley double to put the Cougars up 9-0 over Charlotte. 


East Carolina 2, Monmoth 1 - Box Score
Maryland 5, East Carolina 0 - Box Score
GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina softball team earned a split on day one of the Pirate Invitational, outlasting Monmouth 2-1 in the first game before falling to Maryland 5-0 in the final game of the day on Friday evening at Max R. Joyner Stadium.
 
Game 1: East Carolina 2, Monmouth 1
Taylor Edwards went 2-for-3 at the plate to continue her hot start to the season for the Pirates and ECU would need every little bit of offense to outlast the Hawks. Jordan Hatch (6-2) tossed six strikeouts for the win while Kylie Gletow (0-3) gave up six hits for the loss despite throwing seven strikeouts.
 
After two innings where both teams combined for just a single hit, the Pirates would break the score in the bottom of the third inning after Joie Fittante hit a two RBI single to score Taudrea Sinnie and Edwards and put ECU up 2-0.
 
ECU would miss opportunities to extend its lead, leaving two runners on base in the fifth and one on in the six inning and Monmouth would make the Pirates sweat a little with an RBI double to make the score 2-1. Hatch would strike out the Hawks' next batter with the potential game-tying run on second to seal the win for the Pirates.
 
Game 2: Maryland 5, East Carolina 0
Both teams would miss out on scoring runs early with the Pirates leaving two on base in the bottom of the third and the Terps leaving two on base in the top of the first and second innings. 
 
Maryland would break through in the fifth inning with two unearned runs off of a Pirate error and would add three more runs off of four more hits to put the game out of reach. ECU was unable to get its offense rolling only recording three hits on 23 at bats.
 
Addy Bullis (8-1) took her first loss with three earned runs in 5.2 innings in the circle while Trin Schlotterbeck (6-1) earned the win for Maryland.

Tulsa 8, Tarleton State 0 (6 innings) - Box Score
South Dakota State 7, Tulsa 1 - Box Score
TULSA, Okla. – Sophomore pitcher Maura Moore threw the 23rd no-hitter in program history as the Golden Hurricane shutdown Tarleton State 8-0 in six innings in the home opener on Friday.
 
Tulsa (8-9) would fall 7-1 to South Dakota State in the nightcap to split the first day of the TU/OSU Invitational at the Collins Family Softball Complex.
 
Tarleton State dropped to 12-9 with a pair of losses on the day while South Dakota State improved to 11-6 after winning both its matchups. The two teams will head to Stillwater to complete the rest of their tournament. Maine and the 23rd-ranked Missouri Tigers will head to Tulsa for games on Saturday before a finale between the Tigers and Hurricane on Sunday.
 
Moore's (5-2) no-no is first for a Tulsa pitcher since Samantha Pochop shut down Nebraska in seven innings in 2019. In her six innings of work, Moore only allowed one runner, a walk in the fourth, which was promptly erased on a double play. She struck out three batters in her sixth complete game and second shutout of the season.
 
Senior Gracie Jarvis finished the opener 2-for-3 with a triple that drove in three runs. Haley Morgan also had a pair of RBIs. Claira Skaggs finished with three hits, a double, one run and an RBI.
 
Kylee Nash (3-5) was in the circle for the game two and took the loss. She only allowed five hits and three walks, but the Jackrabbits were able to score all seven earned runs. Riley Grant pitched two innings and allowed just one hit in seven batters.

South Florida 8, Rhode Island 0 (5 innings) - Box Score
TAMPA, March 3, 2023 – Camille Ortiz-Martinez hit her first career home run in the University of South Florida softball team's 8-0 win over the Rhode Island Rams on Friday night in five innings.  
 
Hallie Bryant and Tieley Vaughn got on base by a Rams error and a hit-by-pitch. With two on, Ortiz-Martinez stepped up to the plate and knocked the ball out of park for her first career home run. In the third inning, Bryant hit her first triple of the season and came home on a single from Allana Consolazio.
 
USF had no intentions of slowing down. Julia Mrochko, Kathy Garcia-Soto, and Consolazio hit three straight singles to start the fourth inning. Mrochko scored on Consolazio's hit. Alexa Galligani's triple brought two more runs home. Vaughn brought in the last run with a single to right field.
 
Jaden Martinez earned her third start of the season. The left-hander pitched four innings and struck out one. Morgan Grubb pitched the last inning.

No. 2 UCLA 2, UCF 1 - Box Score
LMU 8, UCF 2 - Box Score
FULLERTON, Calif. – Less than a week removed from the No. 2 UCLA Bruins' 14-0 run-rule defeat at the hands of the top-ranked Oklahoma Sooners Feb. 26, the Bruins' first loss of the 2023 season, the (RV) UCF softball squad gave second-ranked UCLA another scare Friday afternoon at Anderson Family Field.
 
Trailing by only a single run in the top of the sixth inning thanks to an impressive start against a top-two team by junior right-hander Grace Jewell, shortstop Jasmine Williams clubbed her second home run of the season off Brooke Yanez to tie the game at 1-1, and seemingly shift a bit of momentum to the Knights' dugout.
 
The run would be lone tally the Knights could muster against UCLA, though, as UCF fell in walk-off fashion to the Bruins, 2-1, before dropping its nightcap against the LMU Lions, 8-2, on the second day of play in the 2023 Judi Garman Classic.
 
Just one day after collecting her first career save in the Knights' tournament-opening win against Fresno State, Jewell was up to the challenge that a start against the previously-top-ranked Bruins presented. She spun a perfect bottom of the first inning and worked around a pair of two-out singles in the second to keep the game scoreless entering the third frame.