Completed Event: Softball versus No. 2 Seed Oklahoma State on May 7, 2026 , Loss , 0, to, 7
Final Score
Softball
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vs No. 2 Seed Oklahoma State
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The University of Utah Athletics
Softball at Home for Three
6/21/1999 12:00 AM | Softball
May 1, 1998
Next Matchup:
April 28 Ute Field Salt Lake City 1:30 p.m. (MDT)
May 1 Ute Field Salt Lake City 1:00 p.m. (MDT)
May 2 Ute Field Salt Lake City 1:30 p.m. (MDT)
UTAH Batting Order:
Pos. No. Player B/T Yr. Hometown (Previous School)
1B 8 Sandy Rhea L/L Sr. South Jordan, Utah (Bingham HS)
LF 3 Lisa Hashimoto L/R So. Brigham City, Utah (Box Elder HS)
SS 39 Nicole Wikinson R/R So. Sandy, Utah (Louisiana State)
CF 4 Jenny Monson R/R So. South Jordan, Utah (Bingham HS)
C 32 Sunny Smith R/R So. Pleasant Grove, Utah
DP/P 7 Sarah Farnworth R/R Fr. Upland, Calif. (Upland HS)
2B 18 Carrie Kosderka R/R Fr. Roseburg, Ore. (Roseburg HS)
3B 10 Stacey Farnworth R/R Fr. Upland, Calif. (Upland HS)
RF 21 Amberly Johnson L/R Fr. Sandy, Utah (Alta HS)
Pitching Rotation:
Pos. No. Name B/T Yr. Hometown (Previous School)
(1) 7 Sarah Farnworth R/R Fr. Upland, Calif. (Upland HS)
(2) 24 Kristin Arbogast R/R Fr. Eugene, Ore. (North Eugene HS)
(3) 23 Jamie Wilkes R/R Jr. Garden Grove, Calif. (Cypress JC)
Off the Bench:
Pos.No. Name B/T Yr. Hometown (Previous School)
2B 12 Stacy Holmes L/R So. Sandy, Utah (Ricks JC)
1B 13 Kellie Culligan R/R Sr. Sandy, Utah (Southern Utah)
THIS WEEK: The Utes (29-20, 14-12 WAC) play six games at Ute Field, concluding a 16-game home stand. Utah hosts in-state rival Southern Utah (11-20) in a doubleheader on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. Utah then returns to Western Athletic Conference action this weekend, hosting San Jose State (20-29, 7-17 WAC) at 1:00 p.m. on Friday and No. 4 Fresno State (41-8, 26-0 WAC) on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Utah is in fourth place in the WAC with two weeks remaining. Fresno State is in first place in the league and San Jose State is in seventh place.
SCOUTING SOUTHERN UTAH: The Thunderbirds are 11-20, winning their last three games. Southern Utah swept a doubleheader from Missouri-Kansas City last Friday, winning 8-4 and 6-1, and beat Western Illinois last Saturday 6-2. Christy Burge leads the T-Birds in hitting with a .400 average, three home runs and 17 RBI. Pitcher Jennifer Kerr has a team-best 3.20 ERA and a 8-13 record. Head coach Joy Peterson is 267-408 in her 18th season at SUU.
SCOUTING SAN JOSE STATE: The Spartans are 20-29 overall and 7-17 in the Western Athletic Conference. Last week, SJSU dropped a doubleheader to Fresno State on Monday (1-9, 0-9), and split doubleheaders with Santa Clara on Wednesday (5-1, 1-2), UNLV on Friday (4-7, 7-6) and New Mexico on Sunday (9-1, 6-7). Lindsay Lewis leads the team in hitting with a .304 batting average, four home runs and 24 RBI. Kara Kanney is hitting .285 with three home runs and 22 RBI. Nikki Zenger is the Spartans top pitcher with a 3.36 ERA and a 10-11 record. Head coach Connie Miner 44-67 in her second year at San Jose State.
SCOUTING FRESNO STATE: The Bulldogs are 41-8 overall, 26-0 in Western Athletic Conference play and ranked fourth in the USA Today/NFCA poll released last Wednesday. Fresno State has won 12 games in a row. Last week, FSU swept doubleheaders from San Jose State (9-1, 9-0) on Tuesday, New Mexico (2-1, 3-2) on Friday, UNLV (2-1, 3-2) on Saturday and Cal Poly SLO (4-1, 3-2) on Sunday. The Bulldogs have three players hitting over .400 on the season. Senior second baseman Nina Lindenberg, a two-time All-American, has a .480 average, nine home runs and 60 RBI. Senior center fielder Laura Berg, a 1996 USA Olympic gold medalist, is hitting .457 with 11 RBI. Sophomore Amanda Scott is the ace of the pitching staff with a 17-3 record and a 0.99 ERA. Junior Lindsay Parker is 18-3 with a 1.60 ERA. Head coach Margie Wright is 662-197-1 in her 13th season at Fresno State.
NEXT WEEK: Utah concludes its regular season with a doubleheader at Southern Utah on Tuesday (May 5) at 1:30 p.m. and a doubleheader at Ute Field with Western Athletic Conference rival San Diego State on Saturday (May 9) at 1:30 p.m.
UTAH STATE RECAP: Utah used timely hitting and solid pitching performances from freshmen Sarah Farnworth and Kristin Arbogast to sweep a doubleheader from Utah State, 4-3 and 2-1, last Wednesday afternoon at Ute Field.
The Aggies jumped out to a 3-0 lead in game one, scoring two runs in the top of the fifth on a RBI double from Emily Wilson and an RBI single from Sandy Millard. However, the Utes came back with four runs in the bottom of the sixth, capped of by a two-run home run by Sunny Smith, her third of the season. Lisa Hashimoto and Jenny Monson, who both went 2-for-3 from the plate in the game, singled and scored in the inning. Farnworth struck out eight in seven innings to pick up the win.
Arbogast was nearly untouchable in the night cap in a 2-1 Utah win, giving up only an unearned run in the top of the seventh. She also allowed just two hits and struck out four in seven innings of work. The Utes touched Utah State starter Kelly Martin for a run in both the first and fifth innings. Both Sandy Rhea and Amberly Johnson went 1-for-2 with a run scored for the Utes.
HAWAII SERIES RECAP: Utah dropped a four-game series to Hawaii last weekend. The 11th-ranked Rainbow Wahine took the first two games, winning 3-2 and 6-3, on Friday. With the score tied 2-2 with two outs in the top of the seventh in game one, Melissa McGie jacked a home run to left center off of Sarah Farnworth for the game winner. Farnworth gave up three runs off of 11 hits. Kelly Gentle struck out six and gave up just five hits in seven innings.
Utah was outhit 9-8 and committed five errors in game two. Hawaii jumped out to a 4-0 lead before Utah rocked reliever Desiree Duran for three runs in the bottom of the third. Lisa Hashimoto ripped a no-out bases-loaded double to center field to drive in three runs. Hashimoto went 2-for-3 in the contest. Kristin Arbogast gave up four earned runs in seven innings to even her record at 7-7.
Hawaii won Saturdays opener 8-6 and took the night cap 7-4 in eight innings. Leading 3-1, Hawaii broke game one open with five runs in the top of the sixth inning. The Utes came back with five runs in the bottom of the seventh, including a grand slam home run by Nicole Wilkinson. Starter Jamie Wilkes gave up three earned runs off of seven hits in two innings to take the loss, falling to 5-3.
Utah gave a valiant effort to salvage the series finale. Trailing 4-3 in the night cap, Utah rallied with two outs in the bottom of the seventh as Sunny Smith drove in Hashimoto with a single to tie the game. Kelly Gentle then came back to hit a three-run homer in the top of the eighth to give the Rainbow Wahine the four-game series sweep. Farnworth fell to 17-10 with the loss, giving up six earned runs off 10 hits in eight innings.
HEAD COACH MONA STEVENS... is in her second season as Utahs head coach. Stevens owns a 73-37 overall record and a 36-22 mark against Western Athletic Conference teams. In her first season, Stevens led Utah to the NCAA Tournament and a third-place finish in the WAC. This past summer, Stevens coached the USA Softball National Team to the gold medal at the Pan Am Games qualifying tournament. She is one of the nine coaches that will form the USA Softball National Team coaches pool through the 2000 Summer Games.
The former Ute player and assistant coach came home in September of 1996 following a two-year stint at the University of Massachusetts. Stevens was the associate head coach for the Minutewomen during the 1995 and 96 seasons, and was named UMass head coach last June, three months prior to being hired by her alma mater. In each of her two seasons at UMass, Stevens helped the Minutewomen reach the NCAA Tournament and win the Atlantic-10 Conference regular-season and tournament championships. UMass posted a 78-37-1 combined record and a .667 overall winning percentage during Stevens tenure.
Stevens began her coaching career as an assistant at Utah from 1981-84. In addition to her collegiate coaching portfolio, Stevens has been a nationally recognized pitching instructor over the past 13 years. She has also worked internationally, and was the owner of Mona Stevens Enterprises from 1989-94.
QUOTING STEVENS: On the Hawaii series - This past weekend was obviously very difficult for us. The good news is that we hit their pitching pretty well, and theyve been able to hold people down offensively this year. We managed to score some runs against them but that was our only bright spot. We had a few moments on defense where some good things happened, but when you looked at the scoreboard and saw how many hits we gave up compared to how many errors we committed, that was the tell-tale sign of the series. None of our pitchers pitched their best games, and we need to regroup on mound and get some more determination.
On this week - We need to get back on top of our game this week. Hopefully we can get back on track starting with Southern Utah on Tuesday. We took two games from San Jose at their place earlier in the year, but they are a very good team that hits very well. We need to be ready to go against them. Against Fresno State, I hope that since it means so much to us to play them that we can really get up and take a game or two from them. If we can get our pitching in better shape, and reconnect with the things that weve done well, it will take some of the pressure off of our defense.
NCAA RANKINGS: In the NCAA statistics released on April 26, senior first baseman Sandy Rhea ranks 14th in stolen bases with a average of 0.67 per game.
WAC RANKINGS: In the Western Athletic Conference statistical rankings released on April 29, Utah ranked fifth in team hitting (.280), third in ERA (2.21) and ninth in fielding percentage (.937).
Sandy Rhea ranks seventh in the WAC in hitting (.388), fifth in runs scored (45), sixth in hits, second in doubles (11), first in triples (7), sixth in base on balls, first in stolen bases and fourth in on base percentage (.461). Jenny Monson is 17th in hitting (.327), fourth in stolen bases. Sarah Farnworth is sixth in ERA (1.66), third in wins (18), first in innings pitched (202.1), first in complete games (23), fourth in appearances (34), third in fewest walks per seven innings (1.52) and fourth in opponents batting average (.230). Kristin Arbogast (3.20) is 15th in ERA.
RHEA BREAKS INTO THE NCAAS TOP 10 IN CAREER STOLEN BASES: Senior first baseman Sandy Rhea, with 124 career stolen bases, has moved into the top 10 all-time on the NCAAs career stolen base chart. She is currently tied for ninth place and needs five more to move into a tie for eighth place. Rhea has 28 stolen bases (in 29 attempts) in 49 games this season.
RHEA ON THE MOVE: Sandy Rhea, a first-team All-American last season by the NFCA, already broke both the Utah and Western Athletic Conference career records for stolen bases last season. Rhea has 124 career steals, bettering the mark of former Ute Amy (Timmel) Hogue, who has 70. Rhea also broke Hogues Utah and WAC single-season stolen base mark of 33 with 46 thefts last year. She also broke the Utah single-game record this season with five stolen bases against San Jose State on March 1. With her first triple of the 1998 season, Rhea tied Jo Evans career mark of 13 set 1979-82. She now has 18 triples. Rhea has also become Utah career leader in runs scored this season with 170. She is second at Utah in career batting average (.354) and doubles (43). She is third all-time in the WAC in career triples (18), and third in career runs scored (170).
WAC PRE-SEASON POLL: In a preseason poll of the Western Athletic Conference coaches, Utah was picked to finish third with 48 points, receiving four second-place votes, two third-place votes and two fifth-place votes. Fresno State was picked to finish first with 64 points and Colorado State was selected second with 54 points. The coaches picked Hawaii fourth (42 points), followed by UNLV (37), San Diego State (32), New Mexico (21), San Jose State (17) and Tulsa (9).
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