Upcoming Event: Softball versus Utah Valley on October 2, 2025 at 4 p.m.
4 p.m.
Softball
vs Utah Valley
Thursday, February 13
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
7:30 PM
University of Utah
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Ole Miss
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Utah Softball Travels to Mexico for Puerto Vallarta Tournament
2/11/2020 9:37 PM | Softball
Utes will also play exhibition vs. Anissa Urtez and the national team
| Â PUERTO VALLARTA COLLEGE CHALLENGE | |
| Â Thursday, Feb. 13 | Â Ole Miss @ 8:30 p.m. CT |
| Â Friday, Feb. 14 | Â No. 6 Texas @ 3 p.m. CT | No. 12 Tennessee @ 6 p.m. CT |
| Â Saturday, Feb. 15 | Â Colorado State @ 10 a.m. CT |
| Â Sunday, Feb. 16 | Â Mexican National Team | 11:30 a.m. CT |
| Â LOCATION | Â Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |Â Campo de Softball Nancy Almaraz |
| Â LIVE STREAM | Â FloSoftball |
| Â LIVE STATSÂ Â Â Â | Â StatBroadcast |
| Â GAME INFORMATION | Â Game Notes |
ON DECK
For the first time in program history, Utah Softball will compete at an international site. The Utes are scheduled for five games in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico this weekend, four against fellow NCAA competition before taking on Team Mexico this Sunday.
QUICK HITS
- Sydney Sandez leads the nation with four wins on the season and a big reason for that has been her strikeout-to-walk ratio of 15:0.
- Alyssa Barrera is second in the Pac-12 with a 1.167 slugging percentage and third with a .706 on-base percentage. Last weekend, she went 7-for-12, walking four times and getting plunked once. She also clubbed a pair of homers, scored four times and drove in six.
- Mary Beth Feldman impressed in her first collegiate start, topping last year's National Freshman of the Year Danielle Williams of Northwestern.
- A couple more impressive freshman performances included infielder Madi Jacobus (.375, 3 2B's 6 R, 6 RBI), outfielder Haley Denning (.455, 4 R's) and utility player Halle Morris (2 scoreless relief appearances, 1 SV).
- Utah opened with five wins at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz. This is the first time it has done that since the 2017 season when it started 11-0 and made the NCAA Super Regionals.
- Utah's win over Northwestern was its first over a Top 25 team at a neutral site since 2017 when it beat No. 7 LSU and No. 13 Tennessee at the Mary Nutter Classic.
UTES AT THE 2020 OLYMPICS
Former Ute Anissa Urtez is part of the Mexican National Team roster that will play against the Utes on Sunday. She helped lead her country to its first Olympic tournament by winning the World Baseball Softball Confederation Americas qualifier in September.
Urtez, a three-time All-Pac-12 honoree, started every game in her Utah career. A Pac-12 All-Academic selection, she ranks in the top five all-time in both doubles (42) and runs batted in (161) for the Utes.
At the 2017 World Cup, she led Mexico in singles and runs scored, and at the 2018 International Cup, she hit .313, pacing her squad in hits. Current teammate include former ASU pitcher Dallas Escobedo and UA hurler Danielle O'Toole.
Urtez's former teammate Hannah Flippen was also named to the U.S. Olympic Softball Team roster. The three-time All-American is Utah's all-time leader in runs, hits and batting average. She concluded a stellar career (2014-17) by becoming the first four-time All-Pac-12 honoree in school history.
Flippen was also the first Ute named Pac-12 Softball Player of the Year in consecutive seasons and the first person in the history of the conference to win that award, along with Defensive Player of the Year honors, in the same campaign. The U.S. Roster has five Pac-12 players on its roster.
BARRERA BREAKOUT
Alyssa Barrera earned all-region honors for a second time from the NFCA after pacing Utah with a .376 batting average (13th – P12), 59 hits, 37 RBI and a .432 on-base percentage in 2019.
She also finished second on the team with 30 runs scored, nine doubles and a .599 slugging percentage (15th – P12). Her seven triples topped the conference and ranked fifth nationally while also matching the school record.
Defensively, she registered 71 putouts and led the Pac-12 with seven outfield assists. She has started  all 162 games of her career and has the fourth-best batting average for a Ute (.366).Â
NEXT STEP FOR NOSKIN
Julia Noskin picked up her first NFCA honor after leading Utah with 36 runs scored and nine stolen bases. She was second on the team with 54 hits and ranked third in batting (.318).
Noskin also paced the Pac-12 with 130 fielding assists and her prowess in the field helped Utah turn a league best 28 double plays.
As a freshman in 2018, Noskin led Utah in total hits and batted .333 with a .455 on-base percentage en route to Pac-12 All-Freshmen honors.Â
BONSTROM AT BAT
In Pac-12 play, Ellessa Bonstrom led all freshmen with four homers. She ranked second in runs scored and walks, third in RBI, fourth in slugging and ninth in OBP.
She also excelled defensively, ranking second among all fielders in assists during conference play with 53.Â
DYNAMIC DUO TURNING TWO
Utah turned 28 double plays, the most in the Pac-12 and 22nd nationally. The Utes turned three in a game vs. Ohio State last season.
Julia Noskin and BreOnna Castaneda combined for 223 assists, 44 more than any other duo in the conference (Inouye/Young, STAN). In league play, Noskin and Ellessa Bonstrom registered 110 assists, 32 more than the next best pair.
SANDEZ STARTING CAREER
Sydney Sandez's 38 appearances were second most in the Pac-12 and she also finished 10th in innings pitched (130 1/3), tops among conference freshmen.
Sandez also won six of Utah's seven Pac-12 games with a pair of victories over Cal and Oregon, as well as out-dueling Gabby Plain and No. 3 Washington
UTES SET PAC-12 ACADEMIC STANDARD
Utah placed a record 10 student-athletes on the Pac-12 All-Academic teams, tops in the conference.
Two-time NFCA All-Region honoree and All-Pac-12 performer Alyssa Barrera received her second academic award. Julia Noskin, another Ute recognized as an All-Pac-12 player, notched her first academic honor along with BreOnna Castaneda and Alyssa Palacios.
Utah has had 29 student-athletes earn 45 Pac-12 All-Academic honors since joining the conference in 2012.
UTAH SOFTBALL EARNS NATIONAL AWARD
Utah Softball was one of five schools from the Pac-12 Conference recognized by the National Fastpitch Coaches of America as an Easton All-Academic Team.
The Utes registered a 3.39 GPA, the second-best mark among Pac-12 teams. Six student-athletes were recognized as Easton/NFCA Division 1 Scholar Athletes, including Katie Faulk, Claire Feldman, Jordyn Gasper, Ellessa Bonstrom and Haley Denning.
UTE NEWCOMERS AT A GLANCE
Destiny Quiles was a First Team All-Monticello Empire honoree in California where she led the league in home runs and finished second in runs batted in and walks. She also helped her club team to a PGF Platinum National Championship runner up position and was the MVP of the UA Softball Factory World Series.
Madi Jacobus was ranked the No. 71 player in the nation by Flo Softball. She was a Second Team All-State selection at Bishop Montgomery in Torrance, Calif.
Mary Beth Feldman, younger sister of current Ute Claire, was a member of back-to-back ASA Florida state championships.
Charlee Pond spent her freshman season at Ohio University, primarily playing in the infield. She started 41 games and hit .323 with 24 runs scored, five home runs and 23 RBI. She also slugged .528 and led the team with four triples.
Halle Morris was named to FloSoftball's Hot 100 and was ranked the No. 8 player in the state of Arizona by MaxPreps.com. Morris also captured a 4A state title at Canyon Del Oro High School.
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