ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The Lobos head on the road to Fort Collins, Colorado for a three-game series against Colorado State starting Friday.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY @ 1 p.m. | LIVE STATS
SATURDAY @ 1 p.m. | LIVE STATS
SUNDAY @ 12 p.m. | LIVE STATS
All games will be on the Mountain West Network with live stats available.
The Lobos won the series 2-1 against the Rams last season with McKenna Guest striking out eight to zero walks, throwing 12.0 innings throughout all three games and on the record in all three games. UNM scored in the first inning in all three games last season.
WALK IT OUT
The Lobos have 74 walks this season with seven games with five or more walks, including a season-high seven walks in the first game against Tarleton State and six walks in three games.
Of the 74 walks, 31 came on full counts, 21 on 3-1 counts and 22 on four pitches.
UNM has led off with a walk in six games. DeNae Vasquez-Dickson led off the game against Northwestern State on Feb. 7 and the Tarleton State game on Feb. 27 with a walk and Briana Williams led off both the Louisiana Tech game, third game at Abilene Christian and Houston Christian game on Feb. 28 with a walk. Allie Williams led off game one against GCU with a walk.
Jessica DeLeon leads the team with 12 walks with Miracle McKenzie second with 11 walks. Seventeen different players have at least one walk with 14 with multiple walks.
UNM’s pitching staff didn’t allow a walk in the win against Samford and has allowed only one walk in seven games this season.
The Lobos drew 160 walks last season, drawing five or more walks in eight games with a season-high seven done twice. UNM’s 160 walks were the most since 2022.
TWO OUTS, SO WHAT?
Of UNM’s 113 runs, 50 (44.2%) have come with two outs, including eight games with multiple runs scored with two outs.
Fifteen of Miracle McKenzie’s 22 RBI on the season have come with two outs, as have six of Jessica DeLeon’s eight and five of Gabrielle Briones’ 10.
Of note, DeLeon drove in the game-winning run against UTEP on Feb. 27 with two outs.
UNM was 14-21 in game two at Abilene Christian with two outs with 10 of the 13 runs coming with two outs in the inning.
Against South Alabama, UNM was 10-16 with two outs and 14 of the 16 runs were scored with two outs.
McKenzie is 12-26 (.462) with two outs with Briones 10-25 (.400).
WHAT’S THE LINEUP?
UNM has used 23 different lineup combinations, only repeating the same lineup three times. The Lobos used the same lineup in the UTEP and Tarleton State games on Feb. 27 and the same lineup in the Tarleton State (Feb. 28) and Houston Christian game (March 1), The Lobos repeated the lineup in three consecutive games against UTEP, Mississippi State and Samford.
Briana Williams has led off in 12 games, DeNae Vasquez-Dickson in nine games, Allie Williams in four games and Caitlin Benningfield in two games and Gabrielle Briones once. Briones hit ninth in 10 games and fifth in 13 games. Estrella Rowe has hit eighth in 16 games, B. Williams hit second in nine games, Jessica DeLeon hit third in 13 games and DeLeon and Miracle McKenzie cleanup in 11 games each.
Five different players have led off, seven different players have hit second and ninth and four players have hit third, cleanup and eighth. Ten different players have hit sixth and eight seventh.
Briones, A. Williams, Benningfield, DeLeon and McKenzie have hit in five different spots and Vasquez-Dickson, Hayden Luderer and Rowe in four different spots. Ella Dawson (six spots) has had the most movement.
ABOUT THE OPPONENT
Colorado State enters the series 13-14 on the year, 1-2 in conference after playing at San Diego State in the opening weekend.
The Rams are hitting .272 behind a .393 batting average from Lauren Stucky. Stucky leads the team with 33 hits, eight doubles and a .524 slugging percentage. Kyra Smith has a team-high 19 RBI and Jailey Wilson leads with four home runs and 17 walks.
As a team, CSU has 189 hits with 35 doubles, two triples and 12 home runs, and is 13-18 in stolen base attempts.
The pitching staff has a cumulative 2.92 ERA, led by 1.76 from Reagan Wick. Wick has thrown 83.1 innings in 17 appearances with 12 starts, with 52 strikeouts to 26 walks. Wick has also thrown nine complete games with four shutouts. The next closest pitcher is Giselle Bentley, who has thrown 48.0 innings in 14 games with eight starts. As a staff, the Rams have struck out 106 to 67 walks and allowed 186 hits and 94 runs (74 earned).