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SB: Huskies head to Alamo City to take on rival Cardinals in three-game series

Series bumped up to Thursday/Friday due to pending weather with remaining on Good Friday



🆚 University of the Incarnate Word
🏟️ H-E-B Field – San Antonio, Texas
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🥎 Thursday – April 2 (6 pm)
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🥎 Friday – April 3 (DH – 4 pm / 6:30 pm)
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Houston Christian University heads to the Alamo City to take on longtime rival University of the Incarnate Word in a three-game Southland Conference series. The series was adjusted due to pending weather, with the two teams now opening the set with a single game on Thursday night before a Good Friday twin-bill. The series begins a stretch of nine games out of the next twelve away from home for the Huskies.
 
The Huskies have been off since last weekend, when they dropped a three-game series to Stephen F. Austin last weekend to cap off a seven-game stay on the home turf. The Lumberjacks claimed 4-1 and 6-0 victories in Friday's twin-bill before exploding for a 10-1 win in the series finale on Saturday.
 
A seven-run sixth doomed the Huskies in the Saturday loss, as three errors aided the uprising. The Lumberjacks scored two runs in the first inning of both games on Friday to get the early jump on the hosts, who managed just eight hits on the day. Raenna Liscano had a two-hit game in the series opener while Maddy Bailey and Chloe Foster had two-hit games in the finale.
 
Mary-Ellen Hall is now in her 35th season with her alma mater, and her Huskies are now 5-24 overall and 2-7 in Southland action on the season.
 
Maddy Bailey leads the team with a .301 batting average, having raised nearly 100 points since returning to the lineup after missing the six-game week of the UTSA game and the Bearkat Invitational. She posted her fourth career three-hit game vs. UTEP (2/27) and then went 5-10 with three RBI in the three-game set against Northwestern State. She leads the teams in hits  runs and multi-hit games, is tied for the team lead in doubles and triples.
 
Chloe Foster hit her first career homer in game two against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and she leads the team with 13 RBI. Raenna Liscanno is 6-18 over her last six games.
 
Jocelyn Briseno is now second on the team in hitting at .274 on the season. She is 7-21 (.333) over her last seven games and is tied for second on the team in hits, runs and RBI. She had her first career four-hit game in the 8-6 victory over Prairie View A&M at the Bearkat Invitational (2/21).
 
Madison Dominguez had a 12-game hitting streak and 13-game stretch of safely reaching the bags earlier in the season, snapped at SLU. She is tied for the team lead in hits with 20 and paces the club on the basepaths with nine stolen bases.
 
Addy Prasifka has 16 strikeouts and a 2.93 ERA over 16.2 innings in her last four outings. She has tied her personal best with six K's against both Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (3/21) and Stephen F. Austin (3/28).
 
The Huskies hook up with Incarnate Word in a series that is the longest-running in program history. The two schools first played in 1991, and have met 91 times with HCU holding a 56-35 all-time edge in the series. The Huskies and Cardinals have faced off 31 times in Southland play, with HCU holding a slim 16-15 advantage as UIW has won the last seven meetings.
 
Incarnate Word is led by Kim Dean, now in her 5th year at the helm. The Cardinals come into the weekend at 22-14 overall after Tuesday night's 11-9 loss at Baylor. UIW sits in a four-way tie for third place in the Southland standings with a 7-5 mark.
 
The Cardinals are paced on offense by two-time Southland Player of the Year Victoria Altimirano. The senior utility player is batting .413 with 14 homers and 46 RBI on the season. She went 5-9 with five homers in the Cardinals last SLC series at McNeese, giving her 50 homers for her career. Junior utility player Jaisy Caceres is batting .350 with four homers and 25 RBI.
 
Veteran senior righthanders Bella Mitchell and Samantha Portillo return in the circle for UIW. Mitchell is 7-4 with a 4.85 ERA in 60.2 innings of work, while Portillo is 3-2 with a 3.83 ERA and 33 strikeouts in 42 innings.
 
Following the series at UIW, the Huskies will return home for a three-game series with Nicholls State University next weekend. HCU and the Colonels will play a doubleheader on Friday before a noon series finale on Saturday. The Huskies will then head out for a brutal six-games in five days stretch on the road, taking on McNeese State University in a mid-week conference series before trekking to Commerce to take on East Texas A&M.
 
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