SAN ANTONIO, Texas (May 4, 2019) – One team with a Coach Hays will claim a Heartland Conference Tournament title and an automatic berth to the 2019 NCAA Division II South Central Region Championships Saturday. A noon first pitch for the 2019 Heartland Conference Tournament Championship Game will help decide if it is coach Daren Hays and the Lubbock Christian University Lady Chaparrals or coach Shanon Hays and Oklahoma Christian University who will capture the honor. If LCU does win the noon contest, they force a winner-take-all championship game, which would follow the conclusion of the first game.  
 

HEARTLAND CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
OPPONENT	LOCATION	CITY	TIME (CT)	WATCH	STATS	LCU STATS	OPP. STATS
OC	The Stadium at The Park	San Antonio, Texas	12 p.m.	Watch	Live Stats	LCU STATS	OC STATS

If LCU Defeats OC…

• LCU would force a winner-take-all championship game. If LCU was to win both games, they would claim their third tournament title in program history and they would receive their third NCAA Division II South Central Region Tournament berth in program history.

 
If LCU Loses to OC… 

• LCU would be the tournament runner-up and would have their season end with a 32-19 record (33-20 if they lose the "if necessary" game).

 
LCU at the Heartland Conference Tournament 

• LCU is making their fourth tournament appearance and they are 10-5 all-time in the tournament (all 15 games played in the tournament have been in San Antonio).
• LCU won the tournament in 2016 and 2017.
• LCU is 3-1 in this season's tournament
  • Lindzi Clemmer leads LCU, hitting .500 (6-for-12), with a .667 slugging and .600 on-base percentage.
  • KK Lopez-Liu and Alivia Villarreal each co-lead LCU with three RBI in the tournament.
  • LCU is hitting .248 and has a 2.31 ERA in the tournament.
  • Amber Carlton (1-1, one save) has a 0.86 ERA and has allowed two earned runs in 16.1 innings.
  • While LCU has two bases loaded hits in the conference tournament, their opponents are 0-for-5 in bases-loaded at-bats.
• All-time in the tournament against this season's field…
  • Oklahoma Christian (3-2)
  • Rogers State (0-0)
  • St. Mary's (4-2)
  • Texas A&M International (3-1)

 
LCU and OC Series Snapshot 

• LCU leads the all-time series over OC, 36-13.
• LCU has a 3-2 advantage in meetings at the Heartland Conference Tournament.
• Head coaches (and brothers) Daren Hays and Shanon Hays (former LCU head coach) have met on seven prior occasions with Shanon holding a 4-3 advantage in games played against his brother.
• OC has a 4-2 series advantage from this season's season series.
  • Jordan Wehr is 2-0 with a 2.21 ERA against OC this season.
  • Savannah Wysocki leads LCU with a .455 average in the series (10-for-22), leading LCU with 10 hits.
  • Megan Darling has five RBI against OC this season.
  • LCU's lone home run in the series was hit by Lindzi Clemmer.
  • Lindsey Stoeckel leads OC in the series, hitting .400 (6-for-15). She has three RBI to lead OC in the series.
  • Hunter Strickland and Lindsey Stoeckel co-lead OC with six hits in the series.
  • Each team has had a game in this season's series in which they have stranded 12 baserunners. LCU is hitting .215 in the series with runners in scoring position, while OC is hitting .167 (OC is 0-for-8 in the series in bases-loaded at-bats).
  • LCU is hitting .306 in two-out at-bats in the series, leading to a 10-4 advantage in two-out RBI.
  • OC has five home runs in the series and all are from different players.

Neutralizing

• LCU is 2-1 this season in neutral site games. A rare fact (only three neutral site games and none in the regular season), as LCU has averaged 19.3 games per season on a neutral site field. They played two games in 2014, marking the fewest amount of neutral site games played in a single season.
• The Lady Chaps are 155-41 (79.8%) all-time in neutral site games.

 
Streaks

• No Lady Chap currently has more than a two-game hit streak. Villarreal has the longest streak of the season at 10.
• KK Lopez-Liu has reached base safely in nine consecutive games (Arredondo and Megan Darling each have the longest streak this season at 22 games).