Dixie State at California Baptist
March 22-23, 2013
John C. Funk Stadium | Riverside, Calif.
Fri: 6, 8:30 p.m., Sat: 1, 3:30 p.m.

Online Radio: Cal Baptist (all four games)
Live Stats: CBULANCERS.COM
Series: CBU leads series 9-3
Last Meeting: March 3, 2012 in Saint George, Utah | California Baptist won 3-1

Dixie State 23-8 (14-4 PWC) 
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California Baptist 14-4 (8-8 PWC) 
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Travel to Riverside, Calif.
The Red Storm returned home from their 10-day trip to the Hawaiian Islands for a quick four-game series with Academy of Art. Now a quick turn around as DSU will head to Southern California for a key battle with conference rival and defending Pacific West Champ California Baptist.

The Series
The four-game series will be played at John C. Funk Stadium in Riverside, Calif. The Lancers lead the series 3-9, including winning the last two and six of the last seven contests. In 2012 CBU took three out of four from the Red Storm as Karl Brooks Field.


Listen to the series
Check out the audio broadcast available from www.cbulancers.com. All four-games will be can be heard and they will also be providing live stats. You can access either via DixieAthletics.com or cbulancers.com.

The Coach
Randy Simkins enters his fifth year as head softball coach of the Red Storm Softball Program for the 2013 season. This will be Simkin's second stint as DSC head softball coach. In 2004, he led the then Rebels to a school best 49-6 record while the school competed as a NJCAA program. 

In just over five years his record is 182-55. He has led the program to three of their four consecutive NCAA regional appearances. In 2012 they fell to the national runner-up UC San Diego in the Western Regionals.
 
Sandwiched between his time as DSU, Simkins was the head coach at Dixie High School. He has spent 15 years as a head softball coach in high school, including six years at Canyon View HS and four at Dixie HS. He also coached boys basketball at Canyon View for three seasons.
 
Simkins and his wife Sharlan have two children, Summer and Shane. He has also adopted their cousins Jarrett, Jillian, Jaselle and Jaxson.

The Urban Knights Swept
With a sweep of the Urban Knights at home earlier this week, the Red Storm ran their winning streak to 10 games. In the series DSU pounded ARTU pitching for 36 runs and 47 hits.
 
Jaelle Judkins (Saint George, UT/Dixie High School) and Johnna Brown (Las Vegas, NV/Centennial ) had and outstanding performances during the series. Judkins remained a perfect 21 for 21 in stolen bases; she also leads the Red Storm in hitting at a .448 clip. She added six stolen bases and was six for ten with two doubles and two RBI.
 
Brown made a splash, settling right in after completing her women's basketball season. She was 8 for 14 with three home runs and 11 RBI. She also adds a quiet security to the left side of the infield with her defense. She robbed several Urban Knights of base hits with stellar plays this past weekend.

Storm recognized by the PacWest
Earlier in the season, Anna Cue (Murrieta Valley, CA/Murrieta Valley High School) was named as the PacWest Player of the Week for games played Feb 4-10. Cue went 13 for 24 with eight runs scored, two doubles, six home runs and 16 RBI. She also walked three times and recorded a sacrifice fly.
 
For the same period, Michelle Duncan (Gilbert, AZ/Gilbert High School) was named the PacWest Pitcher of the Week.
She was responsible for three of the victories during the Red Storm 5-2 week. She had a 0.39 ERA. She tossed complete game victories, including a pair of shutouts, and struck out 19 batters over 18 innings of work.

Scouting the Lancers
The Lancers enter the series with a 14-11 overall record and a 8-8 PacWest mark. They just returned home from the Hawaii road trip in which they lost their first game and then won the next three games over Hawaii Pacific. They ran their steak to six in a row with two wins over BYU-Hawaii and a first game victory over Chaminade. They closed out the road trip with a nightcap loss to Chaminade and two losses at Hawaii Hilo.
 
It has been an up and down season for the Lancers, having two different three game losing streaks. Add that to a six game winning streak and two different three game wining streaks.
 
The PacWest defending champs have two players hitting over four hundred with Savannah Miller at .426 and Sloan McHann at .405. Rachel Meyer provides a steady punch of power with 10 home runs and 26 RBI.
 
In the circle Jessica Avilia who is 9-5 with a 2.44 earned run average leads CBU. She has carried a major brunt of the work, throwing 91 and two thirds of the 160 innings played. The other two pitchers have an ERA over six and batters hit over .320 against them.
 
Dixie State at California State San Bernardino
March 25, 2013
CSUSB Softball Field | San Bernardino, Calif.
Mon: 12, 2:30 p.m.

Online Radio: None
Live Stats:
Series: DSU leads series 11-5
Last Meeting: February 16, 2013 in Tucson, Ariz.  | Dixie State won 11-9

Dixie State 23-8 (14-4 PWC) 
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Cal. St. San Bernardino 8-22 (5-15 CCAA)
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The Series
The non-conference two-game series will be played at the CSUSB softball field in San Bernardino, Calif.  The Red Storm leads the overall series 11-5 and are 2-0 at CSUSB. They swept a pair of games on March 10, 2010 4-2 and 3-1 in its only visit to the Coyotes.

Live Stats
Visit DixieAthletics.com for the link to the live stats being provided by the staff at CSUSB.

Scouting the Coyotes
The Coyotes limp into the non-conference series with the Red Storm with a 8-22 record and have lost 11 in a row and 13 of their last fourteen games.

They are led by senior infielder Britney Butler who is hitting .507 with three home runs and sixteen RBI. Alyssa Flores provides the power with six home runs and 31 RBI. In the circle Monica Cartwright is 1-3 with a  4.17 ERA, but Kaitlyn Randall has made the most starts with 25. She had a 5-15 record and a 6.74 ERA.