Boise State Off to Silicon Valley Classic

WEEK THREE SCHEDULE

Silicon Valley Classic
at Santa Clara, Calif. (University of Santa Clara)

Friday, Feb. 21

Boise State (6-4) Vs. North Dakota (3-6) | 3 p.m. MT | Live Stats
Boise State at Santa Clara (5-4) | 8 p.m. MT | Live Stats

Saturday, Feb. 22

Boise State Vs. Cal Baptist (4-5) | 10 a.m. MT | Live Stats
Boise State Vs. Canisius (3-2) | 3 p.m. MT | Live Stats

Sunday, Feb. 23

Boise State Vs. Cal Poly (5-4) | 10 a.m. MT | Live Stats

WHAT'S HAPPENING

♦ THIS WEEK: Boise State (6-4) heads to Santa Clara, Calif., this weekend for the Silicon Valley Classic hosted by Santa Clara.
♦ FIELD: The field for the tournament includes: Boise State, Cal Baptist, Cal Poly, Canisius, North Dakota, Santa Clara and Yale.
♦ OPPONENTS: Boise State will play five of the six teams in Santa Clara, it will not meet Yale. The Broncos are 4-0 all-time against the five teams it will face this weekend, 2-0 versus both Santa Clara and Cal Poly.
♦ LIVE STATS: You can follow the live stats of each match this weekend by using the links on the softball schedule page at BroncoSports.com.

THE SCOUTING REPORT

NORTH DAKOTA
♦ Boise State has never met North Dakota before in softball until they open play at the Silicon Valley Classic on Friday at 3 p.m. (Mountain).
♦ The Summit League's Fighting Hawks enter the weekend at 3-6 overall with wins over Incarnate Word (6-5), Texas Southern (5-2)and Toledo (6-2).
♦ The team is batting .232, averaging 2.7 runs per game and has an ERA of 6.67.

SANTA CLARA
♦ This will be the second meeting of the year between the two Broncos, Boise State won the first encounter 11-6 on Feb. 7 in Davis, Calif.
♦ The West Coast Conference's Broncos are 5-4 overall with key wins over Idaho State and UTEP twice each, and versus Sacramento State.
♦ As a team Santa Clara is hitting .324, averages 5.2 runs per game and has a team ERA of 5.88.

CAL BAPTIST
♦ This will be the first meeting in the series when the teams meet on Saturday.
♦ The Lancers are new members of the Western Athletic Conference and enter the weekend at 4-5 overall with notable wins over Mississippi (4-2) and Colorado State (4-3).
♦ CBU is hitting .252 as a team, averages 4.2 runs per game and has a team ERA of 6.31.

CANISIUS
♦ Boise State will also face Canisius for the first time when the two meet on Saturday afternoon.
♦ The Golden Griffins are out of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and bring a 3-2 overall mark to Santa Clara, they will be playing at San Jose State prior to the weekend tournament.
♦ The Griffins are hitting .344 as a team, averaging 7.0 runs per game and have an ERA of 6.46.

CAL POLY
♦ Boise State will close the weekend on Sunday morning with the Cal Poly Mustangs in what will be the third meeting all-time, the Broncos lead 2-0.
♦ The Big West Conference's Mustangs are 5-4 entering the week with key wins over Pitt (9-8), Saint Mary's (8-4) and Cal (5-2).
♦ Cal Poly is hitting .327 as a team, averaging 5.1 runs per game and has an ERA of 5.34.

BRONCO NOTES: LEADING OFF

ON THE MOUND
♦ Senior Kelsey Broadus is 4-0 overall, three by shutout.
♦ The three shutout victories gives Broadus 10 in her career, one short of tying the school record.

MAKING HISTORY
♦ On Feb. 14 Boise State accomplished something rarely done before when they hit two grand slams in the sixth inning against No. 10 Kentucky.
♦ At the time it was only the sixth in NCAA DI that two grand slams had been hit in an inning before.
♦ Strangely enough, Clemson — a first year program — did the same thing the next day hitting two grand slams against Maryland in the second inning.

LAST TIME OUT
♦ The Broncos went 2-3 last weekend at the Littlewood Classic in Tempe, Ariz.
♦ Boise State earned victories over Illinois State 4-0 and Detroit Mercy 10-0.
♦ Two of the three defeats were versus nationally-ranked teams, 16-14 to No. 10/10 Kentucky and 8-0 to No. 23/22 Arizona State.
♦ The Broncos hit .283 with 36 hits, 36 runs and had a team ERA of 8.15 last week.

QUICK HITS
♦ The Broncos have outscored opponents 71-49 this season or about 2.2 runs per game ... the 71 runs scored leads the MW by one over San Jose State.
♦ They average 7.1 runs per game which ranks first in the MW and 22nd nationally.
♦ The Broncos lead the MW in home runs hit with 13.
♦ After two weeks Boise State has a team batting average of .298 (4th MW / 75th NCAA).
♦ The team's ERA is 4.65.
♦ Boise State's slugging percentage of .523 leads the MW and is 29th nationally.
♦ Alison Seng is ranked 10th in the MW for batting average at .407.
♦ Boise State has three ranked in the MW top-10 for runs scored led by Ashlyn Adams (11) in third, Jessica McKay (9) is eighth and Autumn Bennett (9) is ninth.
♦ Adams (10) is seventh in the MW for RBIs, Karlee Johnson (10) is eighth and McKay (10) is ninth.
♦ Kelsey Lalor is ranked third in the MW for home runs hit with three.
♦ Kelsey Broadus is ranked fifth in the league for shutouts with 28 and second for wins with four.

NATIONALLY RANKED OPPONENTS
♦ Boise State faced a pair of nationally-ranked opponents last weekend when the Broncos take fell to #10/10 Kentucky 16-14 on Feb. 14 and #22/23 Arizona State 8-0 on Feb. 16.
♦ In all, the Broncos will see five teams this season that are ranked in one of the current USA Today/NFCA or ESPN.com/USA Softball polls: #5/5 Arizona, #4/4 Texas, #13/11 Kentucky, #15/17 Oregon and # 16/16 Arizona State.

WEEK THREE SCHEDULE

WHAT'S HAPPENING

THE SCOUTING REPORT

BRONCO NOTES: LEADING OFF

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Players Mentioned

Ashlyn Adams

Autumn Bennett

Kelsey Broadus

Karlee Johnson

Kelsey Lalor

Jessica McKay

Alison Seng