REBELS HOST WEEKEND SERIES VERSUS SAN DIEGO
UNLV celebrates faculty, staff, students and families this weekend
UNLV softball hosts San Diego for a weekend series at Eller Media Stadium.
Friday’s game celebrates Faculty/Staff & Student Appreciate Night with first pitch at 6 p.m. Olympics Day is Saturday with a 3 p.m. start. Sunday begins at noon for Family Day and our season-long Spring Cleaning initiative when fans can bring in a gently used item and receive a previous UNLV Athletics promotional giveaway, while supplies last. Fans are also encouraged to stay after Sunday’s game to run the bases (30-minute limit).
Single-game tickets for tonight’s game are $10 each and can be purchased by visiting UNLVTickets.com or by calling 702-739-FANS. All UNLV students, Nevada high school students (with high school ID) and children 12 and younger receive free admission to UNLV softball games at Eller Media Stadium.
Broadcast info
All games of the series will be streamed live on UNLV’s official YouTube channel, YouTube.com/UNLVAthletics, with Wyatt Tomchek calling play-by-play.
UNLV vs. San Diego
- All-time vs. USD: 7-3
- Streak: Won 2.
- Last meeting: March 7, 2019. Won 11-0 (5 innings) in Las Vegas.
A perfect circle
UNLV senior Jenny Bressler was named the Mountain West Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week on March 21. Bressler (10-4) pitched the second-ever perfect game in UNLV history, striking out eight of 15 batters faced in UNLV’s 8-0 five-inning run rule of UNR on Saturday. It was Bressler’s 18th career shut out.
Homers on range
With 27 games played and 25 games remaining, senior second baseman April Visser is on pace to break UNLV’s single-season home run record. Visser has slugged 11 home runs, second most in the Mountain West Conference. UNLV’s single-season home run record was set by Marissa Nichols, who hit 18 in 2005.
Early favorites
UNLV is predicted to top the Mountain West, according to preseason polling of the conference’s coaches. The Rebels tied with San Diego State in overall predicted-order-of-finish points, but carried the most first-place votes with five. UNLV’s last conference championship came in 1995 as a member of the Big West. That year, the Rebels reached the Women’s College World Series.
Bull market
UNLV returns 12 letterwinners, including eight starters and All-Mountain West selections Denise Armendariz (DP), Jenny Bressler (P) and Mia Trejo (1B), from last season when the Rebels finished second in the Mountain West standings. The Rebels added six freshmen and three transfers in the offseason.
Milestone win
UNLV head coach Kristie Fox reached 250 career victories in the Rebels’ season-opening win versus BYU. Fox has 136 victories in five seasons at UNLV following 134 wins in five years at the helm at UT-Arlington.
Choice fielders
UNLV has been the conference’s leading team in field percentage each of the last four seasons and owns the first, second and fourth best single seasons.
UNLV’s currently carries a .972 fielding percentage.
The Rebels’ .977 fielding percentage in 2021 was second only to their record-setting .979 mark in 2019.
UNLV’s defense was errorless through the weekend at the Bear Down Fiesta and had an error-free streak of 41 consecutive innings dating back to the seventh versus Washington on March 5 through the third inning against UNR on March 20.
Been caught stealing
So far in 2022, UNLV has thrown out seven runners stealing (27 percent).
The Rebels caught opponents stealing base 15 times last season, leading all Mountain West teams.
UNLV also matched a single-season record by recording 12 out stealing in conference play in 2021 (12, San Diego State, 2007).
