EASTERN NEW MEXICO (18-29) AT LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN (27-14)
Monday, April 23 – 4 & 6 p.m. (DH)
PlainsCapital Park (Lubbock, Texas)
All-Time Series: LCU leads 26-0
#LCUvsENMU

LUBBOCK, Texas (April 23, 2018) - The Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals return home to face Eastern New Mexico in a non-conference doubleheader Monday starting at 4 p.m. at PlainsCapital Park. The games are the rescheduled contests, which were originally scheduled last Tuesday.
 
LCU LEADERS
The Lady Chaps enter the contest with an overall record of 27-14. LCU is 18-2 at PlainsCapital Park this year. The Lady Chaps are hitting .281 as a team, led by K'leigh Arredondo (.360). Lindzi Clemmer leads the team in hits (47), triples (3), total bases (94) and runs batted in (40), while sitting second in home runs (11). Morgan Dufour leads the team and is eighth in the nation in home runs with 15. Dufour also leads the Lady Chaps in slugging percentage (.798). Courtney Medina leads the Lady Chaps in stolen bases with 22 total. In the circle, Monique Francois leads LCU with 20 victories (7^th in the nation). Francois also leads the Lady Chaps in shutouts (6, 15^th most in the nation) and strikeouts (117), while boasting a 1.89 earned run average. She also holds the most innings pitched (151.2) with opponents only hitting .207 against her. The Lady Chaps return home hoping to reverse their recent offensive woes after being swept in a three game series at Rogers State over the weekend.
 
ABOUT ENMU
The Greyhounds are 4-15 away from Portales this season. ENMU is hitting .259 as a team, led by Erikka Burke, who is hitting .397 with 50 hits and a .849 slugging percentage (17^th in the nation). Burke also leads the team in home runs (15, 8^th in the nation), triples (2) and runs scored (39). Jennifer McElroy leads the team in doubles (13) and runs batted in (34). In the circle, Eastern New Mexico is led by Hanna Gary with a 5.48 earned run average and 5-7 record. Leslie Reyes leads the Greyhounds with 8 victories, 57 strikeouts and 116.1 innings pitched. ENMU comes to Lubbock after not playing a game since April 14.

THE SERIES vs. ENMU
The Lady Chaps are 26-0 all time versus Eastern New Mexico dating back to February 12, 2010.

PREVIOUS MEETING
PORTALES, N.M. (March 20, 2018) – The Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals offense had 33 hits to produce 30 runs and sweep Eastern New Mexico 21-3 and 9-8 at Greyhound Softball Field Tuesday.
 
In game one, the Lady Chaps (19-9) scored 11 runs in the first inning off 10 hits with no ENMU (13-18) errors. Sydney Beuthien knocked in Lindzi Clemmer and Megan Darling, KK Lopez-Liu drove in Beuthien,K'leigh Arredondo's hit brought home Morgan Dufour and Annika Schwrtzenberg walked before the first out as recorded, chasing the Greyhounds starting pitcher from the game and leaving the bases loaded for the reliever. The next batter, Sara Ralston, hit a double to left centerfield to clear the bases, plating Lopez-Liu, Arredondo and Averi Miller (pinch ran for Schwartzenberg). Courtney Medina followed with a base hit to bring in Ralston. Lopez-Liu's second plate appearance in the inning resulted in a base hit to drive in Medina and Darling. Arredondo singled through the right side (her second time up to bat) to score Dufour to put LCU up 11-0.
 
In the top of the fourth inning, Clemmer hit a two-run home run to left field. The Greyhounds answered with a run in the bottom half of the inning courtesy of a Lady Chap error. In the fifth inning, LCU added eight more runs off eight more hits, with Lopez-Liu, Haley Hardison, Logan Grado, and Brea Varnell each driving in one, Beuthien driving in two with a double and Dufour scoring a pair off a two-run home run. Eastern New Mexico was able to get two runs across in the bottom of the fifth inning.
 
Monique Francois (12-3) started in the circle for the Lady Chaps, throwing three shutout innings and holding the Greyhounds to one hit. She struck out three Greyhounds to earn her 12th victory of the season. Clarissa Martinez threw 1.1 innings in relief and allowed three runs on four hits before Taylor Hinojos pitched 0.2 innings. Hanna Gary (5-5) got the start in game one for the Greyhounds, giving up seven run on five hits and two walks. Unable to record an out, she suffered her fifth loss of the year. Kiana Zerr pitched the final five innings for ENMU giving up 14 more runs off 17 hits.
 
Lubbock Christian scored three runs in the first inning of the second game, with Lopez-Liu hitting a sacrifice fly to bring in Darling to start the scoring. Arredondo drove in Clemmer and Beuthien, as well. The Greyhounds followed with three runs themselves in the bottom of the first inning, with Erikka Burke hitting a two-run bomb and Ashley Lopez driving in Jennifer McElroy to even the score at 3-3.
 
LCU scored two runs in each the second, fourth and fifth innings to take a 9-3 lead. Lindzi Clemmer singled to left field in the second inning to drive in two runs before Lopez-Liu hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning and a two-run double to right field in the fifth inning.
 
In the bottom of the seventh inning, the Greyhounds mounted a comeback scoring five runs before the Lady Chaps managed to close out the game. The first two runs by ENMU, in the seventh inning, were due to back-to-back Lady Chap errors. Kamalani Peneku drove in two and Elena Garcia drove in one.
 
Amber Carlton started in the circle in game two for Lubbock Christian, throwing two innings and allowing three runs on five hits before giving way to game one starter, Monique Francois (13-3). Francois pitched the final five innings and did not allow any earned runs. She held ENMU to three hits to notch her 13th victory of 2018. Kimberely Herron (1-4) received the start for Eastern New Mexico in game two. She threw the first two innings and gave up five runs on five hits for her fourth loss of the season. Leslie Reyes pitched the last five innings for the Greyhounds giving up four runs on six hits.