SAN DIEGO – The San Diego State softball team will host California Baptist on Wednesday to conclude the non-conference portion of its schedule. Then, SDSU begins its final season of Mountain West competition by hosting Colorado State for a three-game home series from Friday through Sunday.
The Aztecs play the Lancers at 6 p.m. PT on Wednesday night. The Colorado State series will feature games at 6 p.m. on Friday night, 4 p.m. on Saturday and noon on Sunday. Saturday’s contest will be broadcast on the Mountain West Network.
SDSU is 7-1 against the Lancers all-time including a 6-2 win against California Baptist on February 25 of last season. All eight games have come since 2019 and SDSU is 6-0 going back to the start of the 2021 campaign. The Aztecs 72-43 against Colorado State all-time. The teams split a pair of games in Fort Collins last season but the last time the Rams traveled to San Diego, SDSU swept a three-game series in 2024.
Last week, SDSU scored 13 runs including seven in the first inning as Faith Jordan no-hit Long Beach State in a 13-0 win at the Beach on Wednesday night. Jordan’s outing was the fifth no-hitter in recorded program history. Following a 5-4 defeat against Wisconsin on Thursday in which the Badgers scored all their runs in the seventh inning, Notre Dame scored four times in the first inning and SDSU’s comeback came up short in a 4-3 final against the Fighting Irish on Saturday. The Aztecs finished the weekend in style on Sunday when Jazmin Williams, Angie Yellen and Jayleen Hernandez each homered to power the Aztecs past Princeton by a 14-6 score in six innings. Yellen finished a triple shy of the cycle in the game, going 4-for-4 with a single, two doubles and the homer. She hit .667 over the course of the week, tallying a 1.750 OPS, four RBIs, 13 total bases and five runs scored. Williams also put together an excellent week, hitting .500 with a 1.604 OPS, seven RBIs, seven runs scored and 15 total bases. Key-annah Pu’a had a pair of special performances, throwing 6.1 scoreless innings against both Wisconsin and Notre Dame, allowing no walks and just nine hits.
Two-time MW Player of the Week Jade Ignacio and Jazmin Williams (.418, 1.183 OPS, 22 RBI, 21 R, 5 SB) lead the Aztec hitters (.444, 1.118 OPS, 3 HR, 20 RBI, 16 R, 8 2B, 5 SB). Other top hitters for SDSU include Angie Yellen (.406, .981 OPS, 9 RBI, 11 R, 2 HR, 4 2B, 2 SB), Olivia Gigante (.261, .890 OPS, 6 HR, 18 RBI, 10 R, 3 2B), Julie Holcomb (.296, 16 R, 7 SB) and Quinn Waiki (.324, .788 OPS, 8 RBI, 7 R, 5 2B). In the circle, Faith Jordan (3.09 ERA, 43.0 IP, 28 K, 6-2, 1 SV) and Matti Kwarta (4.86 ERA, 36.0 IP, 18 K, 5-3) have been major contributors to the pitching staff. Key-annah Pu’a (2.83 ERA, 47.0 IP, 16 K, 2-3, 1 SV) was selected as MW Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 16.