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Schedule: Week #7 Results: Week #6 - Western Athletic Conference

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Fresno State Bulldogs (26-13, 3-1 WAC)Fresno State junior Kristin Sylvester had a solid weekat the plate this past week for the Bulldogs ... the juniorhelped lead Fresno State to a 4-1 mark with a .563 battingaverage ... in five games she went 9-for-16 with fourhome runs and eight RBI ... Fresno State as a team leads the WACin pitching and fielding. The Bulldogs have a combined 1.76 earnedrun average and have struck out 274 batters in 254 1/3 inningspitched ... defensively the Bulldogs have a .975 fielding percentageand have committed 28 errors in 38 games.2007 WAC Team NotesNevada Wolf Pack (8-24, 1-5 WAC)Nevada picked up its first conference win over the weekendversus Fresno State, who received voted in both ofthe week’s national softball polls … the Pack posted itssecond run-rule win of the season versus Fresno Statewith the other coming against Penn State … Nevada will open atits new softball facility, the Christina Hixson Softball Complex, thisThursday hosting Sacramento State ... as a team in overall games,the Pack is seventh in team batting average (.232), fifth in teamERA (4.19) and fifth in team fielding (.946%) ... individually, BrittanyPuzey is third in doubles with nine.Hawai‘i Rainbow Wahine (33-7, 6-0 WAC)Last week, UH batters hit .411 while their pitching anddefense held opponents ti a .196 average ... the pitchingstaff had an ERA of 1.44 over the six games. Hawai‘icontinues to shatter their school home record, whichnow stands at 52. Robinson leads the team with eightdoubles, 12 home runs, and 40 RBI on the year ... she is also 10-0as a pitcher with an ERA of 1.49 and 10 complete games, eight ofthem shut-outs.New Mexico State (21-15, 3-0 WAC)The Aggies had a current four-game winning streakbroken by New Mexico … junior Stephanie Herreracurrently sports a 18-game hitting streak … in the lastthree games (all conference wins), NMSU has scored20 runs off of 29 hits … NMSU has hit more doubles and triples thanthey did for the entire season a year ago and they have scored 171runs in 34 games where in 2006 they scored 185 runs in 49 totalgames ... the Aggies travel to Ruston, La. to face Louisiana Techfor a three-game series.Louisiana Tech Bulldogs (16-19, 0-3 WAC)Fourth-ranked Alabama (33-3) swept a softball doubleheaderfrom Louisiana Tech (16-19) 12-4 and 15-0Tuesday ... the contests were the fourth and fifth straightroad games in five days against Top 25 teams for Techas the Lady Techsters were swept against Hawai‘i this past weekend... now the Lady Techsters will host New Mexico State on Friday andSaturday with a doubleheader to be played on March 31.San Jose State Spartans (15-16, 0-3 WAC)The Spartans snapped their four-game losing streak ona split with Santa Clara University in a mid-week nonconferencedoubleheader ... San Jose State took thefirst game, 13-3, in six innings ... Santa Clara edgedthe Spartans in the second game, 4-3, following a sixth inning tiebreakingrun ... the spilt brings the Spartans’ record to 15-16 on theseason while the Broncos improve to 6-30.Utah State Aggies (9-17, 0-0 WAC)Utah State is 10-14 all-time vs. Fresno State ... the Bulldogsswept the Aggies last year, winning both gamesof the weather-shortened series at Logan on March31 in USU’s home opener ... Fresno State won 3-2 in 8 innings, ingame one, before winning 10-2 in 5 innings in the nightcap. Priorto last season, the two teams had not met since 2001, when USUwon 4-1 at the Cal State Fullerton Tournament ... USU is 9-17 onthe season, topping last season’s win total (8-38), when the Aggiesupset then No. 15 Oregon State, 2-0, on Saturday, at Corvallis, Ore.,the Beavers’ first shutout loss at home to an unranked team sinceApril 29, 2005.2007 WAC Softball • Page 6

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