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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— With just three games remaining in the season, the Lobos host MW-leader San Diego State starting Thursday, May 12. Thursday and Friday will both have 6 p.m. start times with Saturday starting at noon. Saturday will also be Senior Day for the Lobos, with UNM recognizing Sydney Broderick, Andrea Howard, Taryn Young and Emma Guindon.
All three games will be streamed on the Mountain West Network with live stats available.
UNM enters its final MW series 25-25 on the season and 5-16 in the Mountain West, with SDSU 35-13 on the year and 18-3 in the MW.
As aforementioned, this weekend, the Lobos will recognize the career achievements of super seniors Broderick, Howard and Young and senior Guindon. Broderick has played in 128 games with 113 starts at catcher, and has tallied 44 hits, four doubles, three home runs and 14 RBI as a Lobo. While she may have not started out her collegiate career as a Lobo, Young quickly became a reliable right fielder for the Lobos, starting 116 games in three years at UNM. Young is having her best season as a Lobo this year with 31 hits, seven home runs, 24 RBI, 16 walks and four stolen bases, while hitting .201. In her two years in the circle for UNM, Guindon has appeared in 67 games with 48 starts and has thrown 17 complete games and 285.0 innings. Like Young, Guindon is having her best season as a Lobo with 109 strikeouts to 46 walks and has a 3.12 ERA.
Howard is having her best season as a Lobo with a with a career-best 55 hits, three triples, 17 home runs, 52 RBI, 43 walks, 118 total bases, .401 batting average, .876 slugging percentage and .538 on-base percentage. Howard has hit at least one home run in six of the last seven series. Her 17 home runs are the third-most home runs in a single season in program history. Her .876 slugging percentage is the second-best all-time in program history for a single season and her on-base percentage is the best all-time in program history. Her .401 batting average is tied for the sixth highest in a single season in program history. Howard ranks 11th in the NCAA in slugging percentage, 21st in home runs and 22nd in total bases, 23rd in RBI and 17th on-base percentage in addition to seventh in walks and walks per game.
In addition, she is second all-time in career slugging percentage at .634, third in career runs-batted-in (142) and one behind second, fourth all-time in on-base percentage at .428, tied for sixth in career doubles (36) and tied for eighth in career triples (8). Her 26 walks in MW games are the second-most in a single season in MW history and she has played in 219 games, tied for fifth all-time in program history
Further, she leads the conference in total bases, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, home runs, and walks, and is tied for first in RBI, second in batting average and fifth in hits. • In conference games, she leads the conference in walks and is tied for fourth with five home runs. Since Howard was walked so frequently in the Nevada and Fresno State series, she no longer
qualifies for the 2.5 ab/ game minimum to register on the MW batting leaders. However, her .766 slugging percentage would be third, and her .587 on-base percentage would lead the
conference.
In the other dugout, San Diego State enters the weekend 18-3 in conference play and have won every MW series this season. Their three loses have come to Utah State (3-1), Boise State (6-2) and UNLV (8-7). The Aztecs have beaten then-No. 5 Washington 7-5. The Aztecs share one common non-conference opponent with the Lobos in BYU, with SDSU losing 2-1 in eight innings.
Mac Barbara leads the conference in batting average in MW games at .424 and has an on-base percentage of .564. On the season, Barbara is hitting .401 (tied with Howard for second in the MW), second in slugging percentage (.796) and third in on-base percentage (.503). Barbara is also second in hits (59) and and home runs (14) and tied with Howard in RBI (52).
Maggie Balint leads the MW in ERA on the season at 1.43, and is holding opponents to a MW-best .168 while striking out a MW-best 257. Balint’s ERA in MW games is 1.21, with opponents hitting .156 against her. The Aztec has struck out a MW-best 123 and has been credited with four saves. Dee Dee Hernandez has the fourth-best ERA in MW games with 2.14, with opponents hitting .252 against her. As a pitching staff, SDSU has the best ERA in the MW in conference games at 1.78, in strikeouts (177) and in opposing batting average (.186). They have also allowed the fewest hits with 104, the fewest runs allowed (48), fewest home runs allowed (8) and the fewest walks allowed (30).