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SB: Huskies head to Arlington for Tuesday evening matchup with Mavericks

HCU plays seven of next eight away from home



HCU at UTA Houston Christian University returns to action on Tuesday evening for its second midweek game of the season, traveling to the Metroplex to take on University of Texas-Arlington. First pitch is scheduled for 6 pm at Allen Saxe Field.
 
The Huskies are coming off a conference series against defending Southland champion Southeastern Louisiana in which the Huskies dropped both ends of the Friday doubleheader before coming back to salvage the series finale on Saturday. Now 10-14 overall and 4-2 in SLC action, HCU is beginning a stretch of seven of its next eight games on the road, with six of those in conference play.
 
HCU fell in both games on Friday, falling 6-4 and 13-4 in the first home games since the opening weekend of the campaign. HCU took a 4-2 lead in the opener on a two-run double by Haylie Savage, but the Lions retook the lead on a Maria Detillier 3-run homer and added an insurance run in the sixth. In game two, the high-powered SLU offense racked up 11 hits and a seven-run fourth inning broke open a close game. Maddy Bailey and Karlie Barba each had a pair of RBI in the loss.
 
In the Saturday finale, Cara Pitman held the potent Lions attack in check, tossing her second complete game of the series to run her record to 4-2 on the season. A two-run homer by Barba in the first put the Huskies ahead, and an RBI double by Chloe Foster put HCU ahead to stay in the fifth. Hanna York added an RBI single and Bailey added another insurance run in the sixth on a sac fly. Barba was 2-4 with two RBI and two runs scored and Foster added two hits as well for the Huskies, who posted their eighth game with double-digit hits.
 
HCU's offense is led by table-setter AB Garcia, who is sixth in the NCAA in batting average and 12th in the nation in hits. She leads the Huskies in batting average, hits, runs scored, doubles, triples, total bases and stolen bases, and ranks first in the Southland in batting average, on-base percentage, OPS and hits while ranking third in runs scored and slugging percentage.
 
The junior centerfielder from Cypress, Texas stole her sixth base of the season in the series opener against SLU, giving her 45 for her career to take sole possession of second place all-time at HCU. She has 12 multi-hit games and is riding a 10-game hitting streak, her second double-digit streak of the season.
 
Haylie Savage continues to attach herself to the career leaderboards. She has a team-best 25 RBI on the year, second in the SLC, moving her into sixth place all-time with 114 as one of just 10 players in school history to hit the century mark. A senior third baseman from Angleton, Texas, Savage is currently batting .389 and ranks eighth in the league in batting average and seventh in slugging and OPS.
 
The three-time All-SLC selection has seven multi-hit games and nine multi-RBI games, which leads the club. She is now ninth in career hits, fifth in doubles and closing in on the top 10 in games played, at-bats, walks and runs scored. Defensively at the hot corner, Savage ranks ninth in the NCAA in assists per game and 23rd in total assists
 
Maddy Bailey and Ella Herrewig are batting .354 and .353 respectively. Bailey is third on the team in RBI despite missing eight games while Herrewig is second on the club in stolen bases with five. Chloe Foster hits at a .286 clip with seven RBI while Karlie Barba has gone 8-16 over the first two conference series with her first homer and six RBI to raise her average to .280 on the season. Hanna York is second on the team in RBI with 13.
 
The young pitching staff continues to grow. Cara Pitman tossed two complete games in the series against Southeastern over the weekend and is now tied for the club lead in victories with fellow freshman Leah Hammack with four apiece. Hammack leads the club in innings pitches and strikeouts. Pitman pacing the club in complete games and has the teams lone shutout and save.
 
HCU and UT-Arlington are meeting for just the ninth time, with the series tied four games apiece. The Mavericks took the most recent last March 12, winning 8-1 at Husky Field. Kara Dill is in her third season at the helm and has UTA sitting at 15-10 overall and 4-2 after taking two of three at Tarleton State over the weekend.
 
A pair of catcher/designated hitters lead the offense for UTA. Junior Kailee Bautista is batting .381 with three homers and 17 RBI, while sophomore Mia McNulty is hitting .309 with three homers and 14 RBI.
 
Senior right-hander Jessica Adams and sophomore southpaw Abi Guitierrez pace the pitching staff. Adams has a 4-2 mark with a 3.15 ERA and two saves and Guitierrez is 4-0 with a 3.27 ERA and one save.  
 
Following the mid-week contest, Houston Christian University will return to Southland action as it travels down the coast to take on rival Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The two teams will play a noon doubleheader on Friday, followed by a single game to finish up the weekend at noon on Saturday.
 
 
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