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Lady Chaps Close California Swing With Vanguard Twinbill

| By: Chris Due (chris.due@lcu.edu)

LCU Wraps Up Seven-Game West Coast Trip With Tuesday Doubleheader Ahead of Lone Star Conference Play

COSTA MESA, Calif. (February 10, 2026) – Lubbock Christian University is concluding their seven-game California road trip with a their first true road games of the season and their final tune-up before jumping into Lone Star Conference play Tuesday with a 12 p.m. (CT) doubleheader against Vanguard at VU Softball Field.
 
NCAA DII SOFTBALL
OPPONENT LOCATION DAY TIME (CT) VIDEO STATS WEATHER
Vanguard Costa Mesa, Calif. Tue., Feb. 10 12 p.m. (CT) Watch Stats Forecast
Vanguard Costa Mesa, Calif. Tue., Feb. 10 2 p.m. (CT) Watch Stats Forecast
       
LCU and VU Series Snapshot
  • LCU and Costa Mesa, Calif. based Vanguard have only met once and VU owns a 1-0 all-time advantage over LCU
  • The two teams were NAIA programs and met in 2011 at the Tucson Invitational Games in Arizona (Mar. 14, 2011), where LCU fell 7-4, as Vanguard had a four-run seventh inning to steal the win. LCU's Priscilla FaGaines went 3-for-4 with a pair of RI and a pair of stolen bases.
  • The Lady Chaps are 6-5 all-time against California based programs.
  • The Lions are part of the PacWest Conference and Tuesday's games are the only games of LCU's seven-game California trip against non-CCAA programs. LCU is 4-3 all-time against PacWest programs.
 
Season Tidbits
  • LCU is 2-6 on the season, bouncing back from an 0-5 start to win their last two games.
  • LCU's first five opponents were NCAA postseason programs that were regional qualifiers last season.
  • The Lady Chaps are hitting .291 as a team and have produced 66 hits, including 16 for extra bases (13 doubles, three triples, three home runs).
  • Kadin Vire leads LCU at the plate, batting .480 (12-for-25) with three doubles, a triple and a .519 on-base percentage, while scoring a team-high eight runs.
  • Riley Flores (.389), Brianna Chambers-Lee (.400) and Alexis Pacheco (.333) also rank among the team's top hitters through eight games.
  • Coryn Burris paces the team in power and run production with two home runs and a team-high 11 RBI, while also drawing a team-high four walks.
  • Ashlinn Hamilton ranks second on the team with seven RBI and leads LCU with four doubles.
  • In the circle, Natalee Gray owns a 2.33 ERA and a 1–0 record, allowing just three earned runs across nine innings.
  • Lexi Clark is 1–1 with a 4.08 ERA and has struck out seven in 12.0 innings of work.
  • Kendall Ward has already recorded two saves in the season's first eight games after leading the Lone Star Conference and LCU in saves (5) last season.
 
California Dreamin'
  • LCU's trip to the West Coast marks their first-ever games in California.
  • The games are a homecoming for a trio of Lady Chaps, as Piper Garcia (Buena Park, Calif.) Brianna Chambers-Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Gabby Diotalevi (San Jose, Calif.) are each from California.
  • LCU has seven games scheduled in California, with five games in Lake Elsinore and then a doubleheader Tuesday in Costa Mesa, Calif. at Vanguard.
  • LCU went 2-3 in games played in Lake Elsinore at the D2 West Coast Challenge.
  • Kadin Vire and Coryn Burris were selected to the DII West Coast Challenge All-Tournament Team.
    • Vire was one of Lubbock Christian's most consistent offensive performers at the NCAA Division II West Coast Challenge and earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team after batting .563 (9-for-16) across five games. Vire recorded four multi-hit performances, scored six runs, and collected three extra-base hits, including two doubles and a triple. She reached base safely in every game of the tournament and helped set the table at the top of the order as LCU faced a slate of CCAA opponents.
    • Burris powered the Lady Chaps' lineup during the West Coast Challenge, earning All-Tournament Team honors after hitting .353 (6-for-17) with two home runs, 10 RBI and seven runs scored over five games. Burris delivered the tournament's biggest offensive performance for LCU with a pair of three-run homers and six RBI against San Francisco State, and added two more multi-hit games during the event. Her combination of power and run production played a key role in LCU's two victories in California.
Last Season Refresher
  • LCU went 23-22 last season and was fifth in the Lone Star Conference with a 26-18 conference mark. Additionally, LCU went 18-10 in West Division play to finish third in the division (LSC will not use divisions this season).
  • Their season came to an end at the NCAA Division II South Central Regional tournament in Canyon, Texas with a 3-1 loss to Colorado Mesa.
  • LCU went 4-11 last season against nationally ranked programs last season., collecting a win over No.1 West Texas A&M on April 25, 2025.
  • The Lady Chaps went 21-6 last season at home, 10-14 on the road and 5-2 in neutral site games.
  
Coach Talk
  • LCU head coach Daren Hays is in his 16th season at the helm of the Lady Chaps.
  • Hays is LCU's winningest softball head coach, entering the weekend with a softball record of 590-224.
  • Along with surpassing 575 coaching wins in softball, Hays had surpassed 300 wins as a collegiate baseball head coach. He spent eight seasons as the LCU baseball head coach and compiled a 356-163 record. Combine the two sports and Hays has coached in 1,285 total games at LCU.

Looking at VU
  • Vanguard enters the midweek doubleheader at 6–5 overall, riding a two-game winning streak after run-rule and wire-to-wire victories over Western New Mexico (5–2) and Colorado Mesa (11–0) at the DI West Coast Challenge.
  • The Lions' offense is led by senior Tiffany Pope, who is hitting .438 (14-for-32) with a team-best .656 slugging percentage, three doubles, two triples, nine runs scored and five RBI, while Adriana Portillo (.400, one HR, seven RBI) and Lilyana Roth (.353) provide additional middle-of-the-order production.
  • Vanguard is hitting .277 as a team with 77 hits, 50 runs and 25 stolen bases through 11 games, using aggressive baserunning and situational offense to manufacture runs.
  • In the circle, senior Vanessa Robles anchors the staff with a 1.42 ERA and 3–1 record, allowing just five earned runs in 24.2 innings while holding opponents to a .205 batting average.
  • Vanguard has played almost exclusively on neutral fields (6–3 neutral record) and has faced a slate that includes CSU Monterey Bay, Chico State, Colorado Mesa, Simon Fraser and Western New Mexico. They are 0-2 at home this season after being swept by Southern Oregon.
 
 
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