THIS WEEK:
It's back on the road to take on the 11-17 UT Arlington Mavericks in a road WAC series match up. The series will open with a Friday double header starting at 3:00 PM (MT) and will conclude  with a Saturday 11:00 AM (MT) match up. Links to live stats and live video stream can be found at UtahTechTrailblazers.com


RUNNING BACK LAST WEEK:
The Trailblazers had a successful weekend taking two of three from the New Mexico State Aggies at home. In the first game of the series on Friday a four run New Mexico State seventh inning derailed the Blazers falling 7-9. But coming back Saturday Utah Tech swept the double header winning the two games 5-4 and 4-1.
The Trialblazers had an additional non-conference game Monday where BYU was back in town and out slugged the Trailblazers 11-13.


ROOT ROOT FOR THE HOME TEAM:
Utah Tech is 298-85 overall at home in the NCAA era.
The Trailblazers are 255-71 at home under head coach Randy Simkins.
The Blazers are a stellar 10-4 at Karl Brooks Field this season.


ON THE ROAD AGAIN:
Utah Tech is 184-108 overall on the road.
The Trailblazers are 161-87 on the road under head coach Randy Simkins.
During the 2023 season, UT is 10-7 away from Karl Brooks field.


RECORDS AND STANDINGS:
The Trailblazers enter the weekend with a 20-11 overall record. Sitting atop the WAC standings with a 5-1 conference record.

Coming into 2023, UT was picked No. 8 in the WAC Preseason Coaches Polls and had Hannah Hughbanks along with Shea Clements selected to the WAC Preseason All-Conference team.


AT THE PLATE:
The Trailblazers are hitting .319 with a .459 slugging percentage. The team has racked up 277 hits with 56 doubles, 10 triple, and 15 home runs.


IN THE CIRCLE:
Trailblazers pitchers have a team ERA of 3.83. Opponents are hitting .280 with 237 hits and 25 home runs. Utah Tech pitchers have combined for two shutout.


LEADING THE WAY:
The Trailblazers are led by Tanya Windle who is hitting .447 with 46 hits that include four doubles, three triple, and a home run. Windle has also napped one WAC player of the week honor. In the power category Lauren Almeida is the star with a slugging percentage of .714 and a team leading 16 extra base hits including a triple and four home runs. Hannah Hughbanks and LB Kahahawai-Kekona are tied for the team lead with 26 RBI.


In the circle the Trailblazers ace is Sauren Garton. She has pitched in 14 games completing seven of them with two shutouts. She has a team best 2.83 ERA while holding batters to a .226 batting average across 71.2 innings.


CONSISTENT STARTERS:
This season there are five Trailblazers that have playing in all 31 games all of whom have started in at least 29 of those game (Lauren Almeida, Shea Clements, Carly Eldredge, Hannah Hughbanks, and Tanya Windle).


BIG WEEKS:
On the week of 3/6 Sauren Garton did not win WAC pitcher of the week but she had a noteworthy weekend in the circle. She threw two complete games surrendering only one run, six hits, just one walk and struck out seven. She was the driving force in helping the Trailblazers take down Pac-12 foe Oregon state 1-0 and beating a red-hot UNLV team 2-1.


In the week of Feb 27th Hannah Hughbanks won WAC player of the week going 7-11 with 6 walks, 8 runs scored, 10 RBI and two home runs. She is the second Trailblazer to win the award this season.


Back in the first week of the season Tanya Windle won the award going 7-16 with three extra base hits and seven RBI.


BLAZERS RAKE IN POST SEASON AWARDS:
Utah Tech placed three Trailblazers in the WAC post season awards in 2022. Hannah Hughbanks and Shea Clements were both named to the First Team while Carly Eldredge was named to the second team.


MOVING UP THE RECORDBOARD
There are several Trailblazers working their way through the teams all-time top-10 lists in various categories.


Senior Hannah Hughbanks holds top 10 spots in doubles (1st, 54), slugging percentage (6th, .620), walks (8th, 76), triples (8th, 5), and batting average (9th, .382).
She is nearing the top 10 in hits (7 shy, 184), runs 95 shy, 119), and total bases (14 shy, 304).


Sophomore Lauren Almeida finds herself on the all-time lists for on base percentage (5ht, .476), batting average (8th, .382), and slugging percentage (T-9th, .608).


Senior Shea Clements is sitting top 10 in stolen bases (8th, 38) and hit by pitches (T-9th, 11).3


Senior lefty Ashtyn Bauerle is top 10 in fewest walks per seven innings (3rd, 1.99), starts (T-10th, 30), and complete games (T-10th, 12).


Senior right hander Kate Dolinski has top 10 position in saves (T-3rd, 3) and fewest walks per seven innings (7th, 2.27).


Crossing the 100 career innings threshold this week Sophomore Attlyn Johnston is now eligible for the list on career averages and jumps on the walks per seven innings leaderboard (4th, 2.00).


All Time vs UT Arlington: This will be the first time the Trailblazers take on the Mavericks of UT Arlington.


Know Your Foe: UT Arlington comes into the weekend with a 11-17 record including a 6-5 record at home. They sit at 10th in the WAC with a 2-4 conference record. They come off a series last week where they were swept by California Baptist. On the season they have a team batting average of .256 and are led by Marley Neises who is hitting .322 with 19 hits including six extra base hits with two home runs. In the circle the Mavericks have a team ERA of 4.33 led by Jessica Adams with a 2.08 ERA across 22 games with 14 starts. She is 6-8 with four complete games including one shut out.