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Utes Preparing for Ferocious Fights with Grizzlies, Bears
4/14/2026 1:27 PM | Softball
Utah to host Montana on Wednesday before visiting Baylor
SALT LAKE CITY – Less than a month remains in the 2026 regular season for the University of Utah softball team and with the Utes still battling for position in the Big 12 standings, they'll embark on busy week that begins with a home doubleheader against the Montana Grizzlies on Wednesday, followed by three road conference clashes with the Baylor Bears.
The Utes and the Grizzlies will meet at Dumke Family Softball Stadium in Salt Lake City on Wednesday for a twin bill with the games scheduled to be played at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. When the Utes visit Getterman Stadium in Waco, Texas to play Baylor, the first game will be played at 6:30 p.m. CT (5:30 p.m. MDT) on Friday, followed by a 1 p.m. CT matchup on Saturday and the series will conclude on Sunday when the teams meet at 11 a.m. CT.
April 15 - 19 Schedule
How to Follow
Tune in to ESPN+ to catch all the action live in both Salt Lake City and Texas.
Last Time Out
The Utes spent their most recent weekend tangling with the No. 1 Texas Tech Red Raiders. On Saturday, Utah scored its first victory over the nation's top-ranked team since 2017, thanks in large part to a yeoman's effort from starting pitcher Hailey Maestretti. The sophomore lefty held the Big 12's top offense to just five hits and became the first pitcher in 2026 to throw a seven-inning complete game shutout against Texas Tech. It was Maestretti's second career complete game shutout of a ranked opponent, as she also blanked then-No. 23 San Diego State in 2025.
Two of the hottest bats last week were swung by Cian Noli and Kennedy Proctor. Proctor went 7-for-11 at the plate with a pair of homers, boosting her long ball total for the season to nine, tied with Mia Gomez for the team-high. Noli logged eight RBIs and two big flies of her own, including one in Utah's Saturday upset.
Since the start of March, a span of 22 games, no one has been more dangerous at the plate for Utah than Noli. Her line includes a team-best .698 slugging percentage, five homers and a .397 batting average, which is only bested by Hailee White's .411. Noli has also been charged with only one error over those 22 contests.
Scouting the Opposition
Through their first 27 games of 2026, the Grizzlies had only managed five wins, but they've since found their footing, winning 10 of their last 14 to jump above .500 in the Big Sky Conference with a 5-4 mark. Their recent hot streak has seen them score sweeps of Seattle, Portland State and MSU Billings and, at one point, the Grizzlies strung together seven consecutive victories.
Montana's bats have played a pivotal role in helping them right the ship and their 207 runs represent their conference's second-highest total. Two Grizzlies own spots in the top 10 in the Big Sky in slugging, one of whom is Ann Cockhill, who is batting .331 and is also tied for fifth in the league in homers with nine. Grace Lopez has been Montana's best hitter in 2026, sporting a .395 clip with 13 doubles. Lopez and Cockhill are also both in double figures in stolen bases.
Much like the Utes, the Bears are in the process of trying to strengthen their resume as the regular season winds down. Baylor got their conference slate off to an excellent start, winning five of six against Iowa State and UCF, but they have not won consecutive games since. Currently, coach Glenn Moore's squad sits sixth in the Big 12, one spot and one-and-a-half games ahead of Utah.
The Bears are a team with plenty of speed and their 57 steals rank third in the league. Three of their leaders in that statistic are also their three best hitters, with Karynton Dawson, Amber Toven and Brooklyn Carter combining for 27 thefts. Those three players all own batting averages above .350 as well.
2026 Team Stat Leaders (As of 4/14/2026)
Batting Avg. Mia Gomez .397
Slugging % Kennedy Proctor .690
On Base % Shonty Passi .486
Runs Scored Danika Wilson 39
Hits Mia Gomez 52
RBI Mia Gomez 35
Doubles Kennedy Proctor 13
Home Runs Mia Gomez 9
Kennedy Proctor 9
Stolen Bases Sianni Sakai 5
ERA Hailey Maestretti 2.27 (105.0 IP)
K's Shelbee Jones 81
Wins Shelbee Jones 10
National and Conference Rankings – Team
With her seventh-inning single against Oklahoma State on March 27, Mia Gomez became the program's new record holder for consecutive games reaching base safely with 34. She later extended that streak to 36 games, the longest such streak of any freshman during the 2026 season.
Gomez is not the only rookie Ute who's put together a lengthy on-base streak however. Fellow rookie Danika Wilson recorded an on-base streak of 24 consecutive contests, which ended on April 10.
Multi-Hit Games for Mia
Mia Gomez's impressive freshman season includes five games in which she's had at least three hits. No Utah player in 2025 had more than four games with three or more hits. Gomez also leads the team with 11 games in which she's driven in multiple runs and she has a team-high 11 two-out RBI hits.
Leadoff Leaders
When leading off an inning, the Utes have done an excellent job getting on base. Utah's lead-off hitters have crafted a .427 on-base percentage. They're led by Gomez in that statistic, who has gotten on safely 23 times in 39 tries.
POTW Awards
The Utes have been piling up weekly awards of late, the most recent being Danika Wilson's second Freshman of the Week honor, which was announced on Tuesday. Wilson is the first Ute to win two freshman of the week awards since Abby Dayton in 2023. Shelbee Jones was the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week last week. On March 10, Mia Gomez was named Softball on SI's Freshman of the Week and Wilson took home her first Big 12 Freshman of the Week award on March 2. Gomez won Utah's first weekly honor of the season on Feb. 17, when she was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week.
Jones Tosses a No-Hitter
On March 11, Shelbee Jones fired the 32nd no-hitter in program history, blanking Abilene Christian over five innings in a 13-0 Utah win. She retired the side in order in each of the first three frames and struck out the side in the second. A two-out walk in the fourth inning was the only baserunner the Wildcats would manage before Jones closed the afternoon in style. She added two more punchouts to her total in the fifth, including one for the final out, her ninth of the day.
How Sweep It Is
Utah's thrashing of Arizona State represented the program's first road sweep of a ranked team since they took three from No. 13 Oregon in 2023. Utah's 35 runs in three games was their highest total in a series of three games or less since 1996 and it included their largest win over a ranked team ever in the form of a 15-0 rout on Saturday.
Proctor Power
Kennedy Proctor started March quite the power display, homering in three straight games on March 1, March 4 and March 6, all in Utah wins. Proctor is the first Utah player to go deep in three straight games since Ellessa Bonstrom in 2023.
Lighting Up the Thunderbirds
Against Southern Utah, the Utes cracked five homers, their most in a single game since 2020 and the 18 runs they scored were Utah's most in a single game since they also scored 18 in a 2012 win over North Dakota.
Multi-Homer Games
Shonty Passi's two-homer game on March 7 was the fourth multi-homer game by a Utah player in 2026. That's Utah's highest total of multi-homer games in one season since 2011.
Double Dare
Kennedy Proctor added her name to the school record book on Feb. 14, when she clocked three doubles at the expense of Illinois State. She was the sixth player in Utah history to log a performance like that and the first since Kelly Martinez in 2018.
Triple Threat
In Utah's first game of 2026, Hailee White stenciled her name into the program record book. With two triples against UC Riverside, White became the 12th player in school history to record two three-baggers in one game and the first since Abby Dayton in 2024.
FOLLOW THE UTES!
Fans can follow along on social media (Twitter |Instagram: @utahsoftball | Facebook: Facebook.com/Utessoftball).
The Utes and the Grizzlies will meet at Dumke Family Softball Stadium in Salt Lake City on Wednesday for a twin bill with the games scheduled to be played at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. When the Utes visit Getterman Stadium in Waco, Texas to play Baylor, the first game will be played at 6:30 p.m. CT (5:30 p.m. MDT) on Friday, followed by a 1 p.m. CT matchup on Saturday and the series will conclude on Sunday when the teams meet at 11 a.m. CT.
April 15 - 19 Schedule
| Date | Game | Watch/Live Stats |
| April 15 | Montana at Utah | Watch / Live Stats |
| April 15 | Montana at Utah | Watch / Live Stats |
| April 17 | Utah at Baylor | Watch / Live Stats |
| April 18 | Utah at Baylor | Watch / Live Stats |
| April 19 | Utah at Baylor | Watch / Live Stats |
How to Follow
Tune in to ESPN+ to catch all the action live in both Salt Lake City and Texas.
Last Time Out
The Utes spent their most recent weekend tangling with the No. 1 Texas Tech Red Raiders. On Saturday, Utah scored its first victory over the nation's top-ranked team since 2017, thanks in large part to a yeoman's effort from starting pitcher Hailey Maestretti. The sophomore lefty held the Big 12's top offense to just five hits and became the first pitcher in 2026 to throw a seven-inning complete game shutout against Texas Tech. It was Maestretti's second career complete game shutout of a ranked opponent, as she also blanked then-No. 23 San Diego State in 2025.
Two of the hottest bats last week were swung by Cian Noli and Kennedy Proctor. Proctor went 7-for-11 at the plate with a pair of homers, boosting her long ball total for the season to nine, tied with Mia Gomez for the team-high. Noli logged eight RBIs and two big flies of her own, including one in Utah's Saturday upset.
Since the start of March, a span of 22 games, no one has been more dangerous at the plate for Utah than Noli. Her line includes a team-best .698 slugging percentage, five homers and a .397 batting average, which is only bested by Hailee White's .411. Noli has also been charged with only one error over those 22 contests.
Scouting the Opposition
Through their first 27 games of 2026, the Grizzlies had only managed five wins, but they've since found their footing, winning 10 of their last 14 to jump above .500 in the Big Sky Conference with a 5-4 mark. Their recent hot streak has seen them score sweeps of Seattle, Portland State and MSU Billings and, at one point, the Grizzlies strung together seven consecutive victories.
Montana's bats have played a pivotal role in helping them right the ship and their 207 runs represent their conference's second-highest total. Two Grizzlies own spots in the top 10 in the Big Sky in slugging, one of whom is Ann Cockhill, who is batting .331 and is also tied for fifth in the league in homers with nine. Grace Lopez has been Montana's best hitter in 2026, sporting a .395 clip with 13 doubles. Lopez and Cockhill are also both in double figures in stolen bases.
Much like the Utes, the Bears are in the process of trying to strengthen their resume as the regular season winds down. Baylor got their conference slate off to an excellent start, winning five of six against Iowa State and UCF, but they have not won consecutive games since. Currently, coach Glenn Moore's squad sits sixth in the Big 12, one spot and one-and-a-half games ahead of Utah.
The Bears are a team with plenty of speed and their 57 steals rank third in the league. Three of their leaders in that statistic are also their three best hitters, with Karynton Dawson, Amber Toven and Brooklyn Carter combining for 27 thefts. Those three players all own batting averages above .350 as well.
2026 Team Stat Leaders (As of 4/14/2026)
Batting Avg. Mia Gomez .397
Slugging % Kennedy Proctor .690
On Base % Shonty Passi .486
Runs Scored Danika Wilson 39
Hits Mia Gomez 52
RBI Mia Gomez 35
Doubles Kennedy Proctor 13
Home Runs Mia Gomez 9
Kennedy Proctor 9
Stolen Bases Sianni Sakai 5
ERA Hailey Maestretti 2.27 (105.0 IP)
K's Shelbee Jones 81
Wins Shelbee Jones 10
National and Conference Rankings – Team
- Utah's pitching staff continues to post some of the best numbers in the Big 12, including a total of 13 shutouts, the most in the conference and tied for seventh nationally. The team's 2.83 ERA puts them third in the league and their 1.36 WHIP is also good enough for third.
- The Utes have been patient enough to draw 179 walks in 2026, 18th-best in Division I.
- Pitchers Hailey Maestretti and Shelbee Jones remain among the best pitchers in the Big 12 in multiple statistics, including ERA, where Maestretti's 2.27 and Jones' 2.31 both rank in the top six. Maestretti's five shutouts are tied for seventh in the nation, with Jones' three tying her for fourth in the conference. Jones' 10 wins also rank in the top 10 in the league, as do her 81 strikeouts. Maestretti's nine complete games put her fourth among Big 12 hurlers.
- Kennedy Proctor has piled up 13 doubles so far in 2026, placing her sixth on the conference leaderboard.
- Mia Gomez has racked up 52 hits during her freshman season so far, which ranks fifth-best in the conference.
With her seventh-inning single against Oklahoma State on March 27, Mia Gomez became the program's new record holder for consecutive games reaching base safely with 34. She later extended that streak to 36 games, the longest such streak of any freshman during the 2026 season.
Gomez is not the only rookie Ute who's put together a lengthy on-base streak however. Fellow rookie Danika Wilson recorded an on-base streak of 24 consecutive contests, which ended on April 10.
Multi-Hit Games for Mia
Mia Gomez's impressive freshman season includes five games in which she's had at least three hits. No Utah player in 2025 had more than four games with three or more hits. Gomez also leads the team with 11 games in which she's driven in multiple runs and she has a team-high 11 two-out RBI hits.
Leadoff Leaders
When leading off an inning, the Utes have done an excellent job getting on base. Utah's lead-off hitters have crafted a .427 on-base percentage. They're led by Gomez in that statistic, who has gotten on safely 23 times in 39 tries.
POTW Awards
The Utes have been piling up weekly awards of late, the most recent being Danika Wilson's second Freshman of the Week honor, which was announced on Tuesday. Wilson is the first Ute to win two freshman of the week awards since Abby Dayton in 2023. Shelbee Jones was the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week last week. On March 10, Mia Gomez was named Softball on SI's Freshman of the Week and Wilson took home her first Big 12 Freshman of the Week award on March 2. Gomez won Utah's first weekly honor of the season on Feb. 17, when she was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week.
Jones Tosses a No-Hitter
On March 11, Shelbee Jones fired the 32nd no-hitter in program history, blanking Abilene Christian over five innings in a 13-0 Utah win. She retired the side in order in each of the first three frames and struck out the side in the second. A two-out walk in the fourth inning was the only baserunner the Wildcats would manage before Jones closed the afternoon in style. She added two more punchouts to her total in the fifth, including one for the final out, her ninth of the day.
How Sweep It Is
Utah's thrashing of Arizona State represented the program's first road sweep of a ranked team since they took three from No. 13 Oregon in 2023. Utah's 35 runs in three games was their highest total in a series of three games or less since 1996 and it included their largest win over a ranked team ever in the form of a 15-0 rout on Saturday.
Proctor Power
Kennedy Proctor started March quite the power display, homering in three straight games on March 1, March 4 and March 6, all in Utah wins. Proctor is the first Utah player to go deep in three straight games since Ellessa Bonstrom in 2023.
Lighting Up the Thunderbirds
Against Southern Utah, the Utes cracked five homers, their most in a single game since 2020 and the 18 runs they scored were Utah's most in a single game since they also scored 18 in a 2012 win over North Dakota.
Multi-Homer Games
Shonty Passi's two-homer game on March 7 was the fourth multi-homer game by a Utah player in 2026. That's Utah's highest total of multi-homer games in one season since 2011.
Double Dare
Kennedy Proctor added her name to the school record book on Feb. 14, when she clocked three doubles at the expense of Illinois State. She was the sixth player in Utah history to log a performance like that and the first since Kelly Martinez in 2018.
Triple Threat
In Utah's first game of 2026, Hailee White stenciled her name into the program record book. With two triples against UC Riverside, White became the 12th player in school history to record two three-baggers in one game and the first since Abby Dayton in 2024.
FOLLOW THE UTES!
Fans can follow along on social media (Twitter |Instagram: @utahsoftball | Facebook: Facebook.com/Utessoftball).
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