Wednesday, April 14
Arlington
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University of North Texas
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UT Arlington
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North Texas
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UT Arlington
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Wall Deals as MGSB Downs UTA on the Road
4/14/2021 8:19:00 PM | Softball
ARLINGTON – GiGi Wall threw five innings of scoreless, one-hit softball as the North Texas softball team rattled off its sixth-straight win in a 1-0 midweek road victory over UT Arlington at Allan Saxe Field.
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The Mean Green (20-9, 2-2 C-USA) will now shift their focus to the second Conference USA series of the season as they continue their road trip with a four-game weekend series with UTEP in El Paso.
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"GiGi was awesome tonight," head coach Rodney DeLong said. " She had really good velocity, really good command with the drop and fastball. It was good to see her throw that well against a team that's been playing well, I'm proud of her and proud of the outing she had. It's what we need moving forward."
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Wall finished with a season-high eight strikeouts over five innings of work in which she gave up just one hit and surrendered just one walk. Hope Trautwein made more North Texas history as she came on in the sixth and picked up her fifth save of the season, besting her own single-season record set in 2019.
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"Our one and two is as good as anybody we're gonna play," DeLong added. "When GiGi's on like that, she's tough. It's good to have two horses like that and a good staff overall. Up to this point, our pitching has carried us."
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The Mean Green struck for the game's only run in the second after drawing a pair of walks and getting a single from Kailey Gamble. Ashlyn Walker was hit by a pitch that drove in the lone run of the game. North Texas would eventually leave the bases loaded after loading them with nobody out to leave the door open for the Mavericks (13-23, 6-6 Sun Belt).
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But, Wall would shut that door and keep it closed as she went on to retire the final 11 UTA hitters she faced after a one-out single in the second. Trautwein would then come on and register back-to-back strikeouts to move her consecutive strikeout streak to 25 batters, a two-out double would give UTA some life before Trautwein would register two more strikeouts to move the streak to 27. A fly-out to Lexi Cobb in the seventh gave the North Texas defense their first putout with Trautwein in the circle since the seventh inning against UAB in game two of a doubleheader on April 3.
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The Mean Green (20-9, 2-2 C-USA) will now shift their focus to the second Conference USA series of the season as they continue their road trip with a four-game weekend series with UTEP in El Paso.
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"GiGi was awesome tonight," head coach Rodney DeLong said. " She had really good velocity, really good command with the drop and fastball. It was good to see her throw that well against a team that's been playing well, I'm proud of her and proud of the outing she had. It's what we need moving forward."
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Wall finished with a season-high eight strikeouts over five innings of work in which she gave up just one hit and surrendered just one walk. Hope Trautwein made more North Texas history as she came on in the sixth and picked up her fifth save of the season, besting her own single-season record set in 2019.
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"Our one and two is as good as anybody we're gonna play," DeLong added. "When GiGi's on like that, she's tough. It's good to have two horses like that and a good staff overall. Up to this point, our pitching has carried us."
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The Mean Green struck for the game's only run in the second after drawing a pair of walks and getting a single from Kailey Gamble. Ashlyn Walker was hit by a pitch that drove in the lone run of the game. North Texas would eventually leave the bases loaded after loading them with nobody out to leave the door open for the Mavericks (13-23, 6-6 Sun Belt).
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But, Wall would shut that door and keep it closed as she went on to retire the final 11 UTA hitters she faced after a one-out single in the second. Trautwein would then come on and register back-to-back strikeouts to move her consecutive strikeout streak to 25 batters, a two-out double would give UTA some life before Trautwein would register two more strikeouts to move the streak to 27. A fly-out to Lexi Cobb in the seventh gave the North Texas defense their first putout with Trautwein in the circle since the seventh inning against UAB in game two of a doubleheader on April 3.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Wall, GiGi (9-6)
L: Henriksen, Laura (2-4)
S: Trautwein, Hope (5)
Batting:
2B: Hilton, Tarah 1
RBI: Walker, Ashlyn 1
SH: Evans, Tayla 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Smith, Mikayla 1
HBP: Walker, Ashlyn 1
PO: DerMargosian, Tuesday 1
Batting:
2B: Murphy, KJ 1
Base Running:
SB: Erickson, Jadyn 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
3
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
AB
3
R
0
H
1
RBI
0
AB
2
R
0
H
0
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
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Pitcher
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/ Softball
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