University of Utah
40-13
Mississippi
32-28
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ole Miss | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Utah | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 11 | 0 |
Players Mentioned
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Lopez, Mariah (21-5)
L: Catelyn Riley (9-7)
Batting:
2B: Jalia Lassiter 1 ; Mikayla Allee 1
RBI: Jalia Lassiter 1
SH: Tate Whitley 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Tenly Grisham 1
HBP: Lexie Brady 1 ; Aynslie Furbush 1
Batting:
2B: Ortiz, Shelbi 1
HR: Davison, Karlie 1
RBI: Belarde, Aliya 1 ; Davison, Karlie 2 ; Lundberg, Kendall 1
SH: Denning, Haley 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Jimenez, Julia 1 ; Davison, Karlie 1 ; Dayton, Abby 1 ; Ortiz, Shelbi 1
SB: Belarde, Aliya 1
Game Leaders
No. 12 Utah Softball Sinks Ole Miss, Heads for NCAA Super Regionals
5/21/2023 4:19 PM | Softball
Utes complete perfect weekend with 4-1 triumph, to host supers for first time in program history
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— Utah Softball (@Utah_Softball) May 21, 2023
The Utes are officially champions of the Salt Lake City Regional and will be back at home for NCAA Super Regionals!!#GoUtes /// #SOTL pic.twitter.com/JcJyOB8HI4
The Utes have now won 40 games for the first time since 2006 and the seventh time in program history and they will host the NCAA Super Regional series that will begin on Thursday or Friday. This will be the first time Utah has ever hosted a super regional and its the squad's third trip to that stage overall in school history.
"I'm really proud of this team," said head coach Amy Hogue. "Accomplishing something we've not done, we've never had the opportunity to host supers. I'd love anybody to come here and play this team right now because we're playing great and we just earned a couple more days of ball."
For the second straight day, the Utes used a second-inning rally to grab the game's first lead. This one started with a Julia Jimenez single and Karlie Davison followed by tattooing a two-run homer over the fence in left-center for a 2-0 lead. Utah added one more run before the frame ended, courtesy of an Abby Dayton single, a sacrifice and an RBI base knock off the bat of Kendall Lundberg.
Two innings later, the home team increased its lead to four thanks to a run-scoring Aliya Belarde single that was a proceeded by a Shelbi Ortiz double. The Rebels found an answer in the fifth however, when Aynslie Furbush was hit by a pitch and motored across on a Jalia Lassiter double.
That represented the only offense Ole Miss could manage against Lopez, who worked around six hits by the Rebels and stranded six runners, including two in the fifth after Lassiter's two-bagger. Ole Miss waited out two walks to bring Paige Smith to the plate as the tying run, but Lopez got Smith to groundout to end that opportunity. The junior from Arizona allowed only a two-out single in the sixth and another in the seventh before inducing a ground ball to second from Smith that Belarde turned into the final out.
The final out.#GoUtes /// #SOTL pic.twitter.com/Ct4I75ROy3
— Utah Softball (@Utah_Softball) May 21, 2023
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