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#4 UT Tyler vs. UT Permian Basin
UTT: 19-3, 10-2 LSC | UTPB: 4-13, 1-8 LSC
Tuesday, March 7th | 3 P.M. | 5 P.M.
Odessa, Texas | UTPB Softball Field |
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#4 UT Tyler vs. UT Permian Basin
UTT: 19-3, 10-2 LSC | UTPB: 4-13, 1-8 LSC
Wednesday, March 8th | 12 P.M.
Odessa, Texas | UTPB Softball Field |
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A 3-0 WEEKEND
UT Tyler swept #22 West Texas A&M over the weekend to jump back into the top spot of the Lone Star Conference Regular Season standings. #4 UT Tyler won both ballgames in 5-2 and 6-5 fashion to hand #22 West Texas A&M their first two losses of the 2023 season on Friday night. The Patriots scored five runs off nine hits in game one and then plated three runs in the bottom of the sixth in game two to negate a 5-3 lead in favor of West Texas A&M to secure wins on a late night of softball in Tyler. The Patriots provided key heads-up baserunning throughout the evening to take advantage of some fielding mistakes by the Lady Buffs to jump ahead 2-0 in the series.
Courtney Plocheck and
JT Smith totaled a combined four extra-base hits to help #4 UT Tyler complete the series sweep over #22 West Texas A&M with a 6-1 win on Saturday afternoon. Plocheck and Smith drove in five UT Tyler runs on four of the five UT Tyler extra-base hits in the game to help the Patriots remain largely in control of a spirited series finale between both teams. Plocheck went 2-for-3 with a double and a triple, while Smith matched that output with a 2-for-3 effort that featured a double and a two-run homer in the bottom of the third. Starter
Tatum Goff and relief pitcher
Shea O'Leary kept the Lady Buff offense largely in check once again, allowing just a single earned run on a solo homerun in the top of the fifth. Goff moved to a perfect 12-0 on the year with the win after tossing 5.0 complete innings, scattering four hits and striking out three along the way.
BACK ON TOP
The wins slid UT Tyler back into first place in the regular season standings with a league mark of 10-2 on the year and hold the conference winning percentage edge over #25 St. Mary's, who sit 7-2 in LSC play. The Patriots are now 8-3 this season against teams associated with the NFCA Division II Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll, and are a perfect 11-0 on their home field at Irwin Ballpark.
A BIG WEEK FOR GOFF
Junior
Tatum Goff went 3-0 last week with a pair of complete game efforts to help #4 UT Tyler to five wins throughout the week. Goff allowed just a single earned run in 19.0 innings pitched, and struckout 13 batters along the way. She tossed a one-hitter on Tuesday against Southeastern Oklahoma State, striking out seven in her 7.0 complete innings of work. Goff then returned to the circle twice in the weekend series against #22 West Texas A&M, collecting wins in both outings against a Lady Buff club that entered the weekend ranked second on the year in team batting average. The Rusk, Texas native limited that offense to just a single earned run in 12.0 innings of work between the two starts, and conceded just nine hits along the way. Goff is a perfect 12-0 on the year in 2023, and has posted a 1.06 ERA in 79.0 innings this season.
SCOUTING THE FALCONS
UT Permian Basin sits 4-13 on the year and 1-8 in Lone Star Conference play entering Tuesday's meeting. The Falcons will have the benefit of a lengthy rest heading into the series, as their most recent action came back on Feb. 25-26 against West Texas A&M. The Falcons rank 12th in the LSC with a team batting average of .228, and 15th in the LSC with a team ERA of 9.26. UT Tyler has won all five previous match ups between the two programs, and have shutout the Falcons in each of their last three meetings.
SLIDING IN AT NO. 4
The University of Texas at Tyler softball team dropped a pair of spots to no. 4 in the latest 2023 NFCA Division II Top 25 Coaches Poll as announced by the organization on last week. Rogers State, the defending NCAA Division II National Champions, stayed as the unanimous no. 1 top choice while North Georgia (15-1) and Tampa (8-0) moved ahead of UT Tyler in the no. 2 and no. 3 slots. The 2023 NFCA Division II Top 25 Poll is voted on by 16 NCAA Division II head coaches with two representing each of the eight NCAA regions.
| Rank |
Team |
Record |
Points |
Previous |
| 1 |
Rogers State (16) |
12-1 |
400 |
1 |
| 2 |
North Georgia |
15-1 |
381 |
3 |
| 3 |
Tampa |
8-0 |
361 |
4 |
| 4 |
UT Tyler |
14-3 |
358 |
2 |
| 5 |
Cal State San Marcos |
10-3 |
330 |
6 |
| 6 |
Southern Arkansas |
15-2 |
319 |
7 |
| 7 |
Lubbock Christian |
16-4 |
285 |
9 |
| 8 |
Grand Valley State |
5-0 |
262 |
12 |
| 9 |
Central Oklahoma |
8-3 |
241 |
10 |
| 10 |
Seton Hill |
4-2 |
235 |
5 |
| 11 |
Indianapolis |
12-2 |
234 |
14 |
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UAH |
14-3 |
234 |
17 |
| 13 |
Valdosta State |
11-3 |
228 |
8 |
| 14 |
Cal State Dominguez Hills |
10-5 |
213 |
13 |
| 15 |
Adelphi |
8-3 |
206 |
11 |
| 16 |
Anderson (S.C.) |
16-4 |
177 |
15 |
| 17 |
Concordia |
14-4 |
152 |
16 |
| 18 |
Washburn |
15-3 |
100 |
20 |
| 19 |
Sonoma State |
13-1 |
88 |
22 |
| 20 |
Colorado Christian |
18-2 |
87 |
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| 21 |
Lenoir-Rhyne |
15-1 |
79 |
23 |
| 22 |
West Texas A&M |
15-0 |
61 |
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| 23 |
Saint Leo |
13-1 |
46 |
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| 24 |
Wilmington |
4-2 |
35 |
25 |
| 25 |
St. Mary's |
14-5 |
25 |
21 |
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES:
Oklahoma Christian (19), Harding (17), Nova Southeastern (16), Wingate (5), Oklahoma Baptist (3), Angelo State (1), Carson-Newman (1), Illinois-Springfield (1).
DROPPED OUT:
No. 18 Lincoln Memorial, No. 19 Oklahoma Christian, No. 24 Nova Southeastern
DOMINANCE IN DIVISION II
UT Tyler has produced a record of 119-22 (85.1 percent) since beginning Division II play in 2020 and have now claimed back-to-back Lone Star Conference Regular Season Championships in 2021 and 2022. The Patriots are 72-12 in Lone Star Conference play since beginning play in the league in 2020.
HEAD COACH MIKE REED
Coach Reed will enter his 19
th season as head coach of the Patriots, and 22nd season as a head softball coach at the collegiate level in 2022.
Reed ranks fifth among all NCAA divisions in career winning percentage (.826), posting an 818-171 career mark through 22 career seasons. He owns the third-highest all-time win percentage among Division III coaches, coaching 18 of his 22 seasons at the Division III level, and is a nine-time American Southwest Conference Coach of the Year and eight-time NFCA Regional Coach of the Year. He has helped develop 33 All-Americans, 91 all-region and 149 all-conference selections and has led the UT Tyler program to the NCAA World Series in eight of the 12 years since the Patriots became postseason eligible in Division III.. He is 713-140 (.835) in his 19 seasons as head coach the Patriots and has seen his staff named the Regional Coaching Staff of the Year by the NFCA on eight different occasions (2009, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022).
