TUCSON, Ariz. (February 18, 2017) – The Lady Chaps continue play in the Second Annual D2 Cactus Classic hosted by Tucson Invitational Games at Lincoln Park in Tucson, Ariz. with two games on Saturday against the Academy of Art and Fort Lewis after splitting games on Friday beating No. 23 Dixie State before falling to Mary.
 
LADY CHAP WEEKEND SCHEDULE (all times CST)
Friday, February 17, 2017
   10:30 a.m. – Lubbock Christian 2 - No. 23 Dixie State 1
   12:30 p.m. – Lubbock Christian 2 - Mary 3
 
Saturday, February 18, 2017
   12:30 p.m. – Academy of Art (#LCUvsAAU)
   3:00 p.m. – Fort Lewis (LCUvsFLC)
 
Sunday, February 19, 2017
   10:30 a.m. – Mary (#LCUvsMARY)
 
TEAM LEADERS
Sydney Beuthien leads LCU in batting average (.477), hits (21), slugging percentage (.773) and runs-batted-in (15). She also leads the team with six multi-hit games. Courtney Medina leads the Lady Chaps in stolen bases (14). In the circle, Heartland Conference Pitcher of the Week, Katera Eltsosie leads the Lady Chaps with a 6-0 record and a 0.73 earned run average. Katlyn Holmes is tops on the team with three saves this season.
 
STREAKING
Beuthien has successfully reached base in all 14 games the Lady Chaps have played this season and also has a hit streak going with eight consecutive games.
 
ACADEMY OF ART
No prior Meetings
 
LCU faces an Academy of Art program that is riding the momentum of a four-game win streak (two wins in Tucson). San Francisco based Academy of Art, heading into Saturday's play with a 5-3 record, is preseason picked tied for seventh in the PacWest. It is a Texas two-step in Arizona for the Urban Knights, who will play No.2 West Texas A&M prior to facing the Lady Chaps on Saturday.
 
FORT LEWIS
LCU leads the all-time series 2-0
 
Fort Lewis will mark the third Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference program LCU has seen this season. The Skyhawks, who opened their season in Canyon, Texas at the West Texas A&M's tournament, went 0-1 Friday and their record heading into Saturday's play is 1-6. FLC was preseason picked 10^th in the RMAC preseason poll.
 
PREVIOUS MEETING
CANYON, Texas (February 14, 2016) – It took extra innings once again for the Lady Chaps to take game one in the WT Invitational, this time from Fort Lewis College in a 7-6 win.
 
To open the day, LCU (10-5) was first on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning when the Fort Lewis (2-7) third baseman dropped a fly ball allowing Lindzi Clemmer to score from third. In the top of the second, the Skyhawks took a 2-1 lead off of a two-out single that plated Mandy Owens and Lauren Caldwell. During the next inning, LCU would regain the lead 3-2 when Molly Davison doubled to drive in Morgan Colburn and Baylee Goolsby. After FLC tied the game up in the top of the fifth, the Lady Chaps again took the lead with Colburn's two-run bomb down the left field line. The Skyhawks answered in the next half inning by getting two runs of their own to tie the game at 5-5.
 
For the third time this season and the second in the WT Invitational, the Lady Chaps had to play into the eighth inning. With the International Tie Breaker (ITB) rule in effect, the Skyhawks placed Owens on second base to start the inning. FLC was able to bring her home via a sacrifice bunt followed by a sacrifice fly to take a 7-6 lead. The Lady Chaps put Liz Torres at second in the bottom half of the inning where she reached third on a double by Colburn before Katlin Reed would hit a shot into left to score both Torres and Colburn for the walk-off win.
 
Katlyn Holmes (3-1) notched her third victory of the year by going the full eight innings for LCU. Holmes only allowed three earned runs while striking out two. Victoria Johnson (2-2) took the loss for the Skyhawks, allowing eight hits and seven runs while walking five Lady Chap batters.
 
BROADCAST INFO
DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER ONLY LIVE STATS WILL BE STREAMED FOR THE FIRST GAME. Game two will be a game-time decision as to whether or not the video and audio can be streamed. Catch the action at www.lcuchaps.com.