LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (28-7) vs. EASTERN NEW MEXICO (10-22)
Tuesday, March 22 - 4 and 6 p.m. (CST)
PlainsCapital Park (Lubbock, Texas)
All-Time Series: LCU leads 18-0
 
LUBBOCK, Texas (March 22, 2016) – Lubbock Christian University softball is coming off a trip to the coast in which they swept Texas A&M–Kingsville in the only two games they were able to get in before the rain cancelled the remaining contest. The Lady Chaps return home to take on the Greyhounds of Eastern New Mexico Tuesday at PlainsCapital Park in a double header scheduled to begin at 4:00 p.m. (CST).
 
SKIPPER
The Greyhounds' new skipper, Katie Welborn, is no stranger to the Lady Chaps having spent the previous two seasons as the Assistant Coach for LCU. Welborn has taken the reigns and has her team off to an impressive start with wins over No. 9 St. Mary's, No. 22 Angelo State, Midwestern State and Texas A&M–Commerce.
 
HOME IS NICE
The Lady Chaps have faced ENMU 18 times. LCU has been victorious in each of those contests with six wins coming at home in the friendly confines of PlainsCapital Park where LCU is currently 10-0 this season and 179-11 all time.
 
LEADING LADIES
Molly Davison leads the Lady Chaps in batting average (.447) and Lindzi Clemmer leads the team in stolen bases (13). Morgan Colburn leads in almost every other offensive category including hits (45), runs-batted-in (43), runs scored (45), total bases (101), walks (21), home runs (15) and slugging percentage (1.000). In the circle, Katera Eltsosie sits atop the list with the lowest earned-run-average (2.26), most wins (15), innings pitched (108.1), strike outs (92) and opposing batting average (.219). Katlyn Holmes leads the team in shutouts having thrown three so far this season.
 
LAST MEETING
PORTALES, N.M. (March 1, 2016) – Entering Tuesday's doubleheader, Lubbock Christian University softball held a 16-0 all-time series record against the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds, and the Lady Chaps kept that streak alive on Tuesday by taking game one of the double-header, 10-5, in a seesaw battle before shutting ENMU out in game two, 12-0.
 
BACK AND FORTH
The Greyhounds (8-12) got on the scoreboard first in game one when center fielder Marleyna Pinon drove in leadoff batter Audrey Velasquez. LCU (18-7) bounced back in the second inning when freshman shortstop Lindzi Clemmer singled down the left field line to score pinch runner, Shelby Welch. The Lady Chaps would go ahead in the third when Liz Torres drove in Molly Davison. However, ENMU scored twice in the bottom half of the inning to retake the lead 3-2. In the top of the fourth inning, Torres singled to right field to drive in two more runs and put LCU on top 4-3 before the Greyhounds tied it up 4-4 with another run in the fifth.
 
BIG INNING
In the top of the sixth inning ,the Lady Chaps used hits by Morgan Colburn, Davison, Torres, Katlin Reed, Ashton Bell and a sacrifice fly by Katera Eltsosie to score six runs and go up 10-4. The Greyhounds managed one additional run in the bottom of the seventh.
 
IN THE CIRCLE
Eltsosie (11-3) went the distance for LCU picking up her 11th victory of the season. The redshirt junior allowed five runs off of 11 hits while striking out seven Greyhound batters. Aja Secheslingloff (5-5) suffered her fifth loss of the year by allowing 10 runs on 14 hits.
 
FOUR
The Lady Chaps scored four runs in each the first, third and fifth innings with Colburn and Bell each garnering four runs-batted-in. Sammie Murrietta went 3-for-4 in the game while Colburn, Addison Ard, Reed and Bell each had two hits in the contest. Colburn launched her NCAA-leading 12th home run this year in the game and now has a NCAA-leading 35 runs-batted-in for the season.
 
ZERO
Katlyn Holmes (5-2) threw a five-hit shutout to notch her fifth win of the season. The shutout was Holmes' first as a Lady Chap and the team's third shutout of the year. Kiana Zerr (1-2) got the start for the Greyhounds by going two-and-two-thirds innings and giving up eight runs on nine hits to suffer her second loss this season. Katie Ripple came in to pitch two-and-a-third innings, giving up an additional four runs on six hits in relief.