University of North Texas
Yale
Softball Travels to UTA for Boerner Invitational
2/21/2025 9:00:00 AM | Softball
ARLINGTON, Texas – UNT softball is set for the 6th Boerner Invitational at Allan Saxe Field on the campus of UT Arlington. The four-team tournament will include meetings against Yale, Northwestern State and the Mavericks on Saturday and Sunday.
The Mean Green (8-2) open the tournament on Saturday at 10 a.m. against Yale (0-0) which will mark the season opener for the Bulldogs. Yale is the fourth team that has begun its season against North Texas this year. First-time foes UNT and Yale will meet again on Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
North Texas will face Northwestern State (1-8) on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. and close the tournament against UTA (4-7) on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. on ESPN+. The Mean Green hold a 9-1 record against the Demons and 22-11 mark over the Mavericks.
The Mean Green completed a three-run comeback to win 7-4 in its last game at UT Arlington on March 26, 2024. Mackenzie Childers pitched five innings with seven strikeouts and allowed zero earned runs while UTA committed five errors to allow the Mean Green to score five runs in the final two innings.
UNT registered its second four-win weekend of the season at The Snowman: Alex Wilcox Memorial tournament at Mississippi State on Sunday. The Mean Green matched the best start in program history with an 8-2 record after hitting the same ten-game mark in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, each under head coach Rodney DeLong.
For the weekend, Tatum Sparks led North Texas with a .556 batting average, 10 hits, two doubles, one home run, six runs scored, six RBI and two stolen bases to earn an American Athletic Conference Honorable Mention selection. Elizabeth Moffitt came up with a pair of clutch hits on Sunday with a three-run home run in the sixth inning against Bradley and two-run double with two outs to complete a four-run comeback over Georgia Tech.
In the circle, Skylar Savage spun a pair of seven inning complete-game wins and finished with a 3-0 record for the weekend. She collected 13 strikeouts over 15 2/3 innings and held opposing batters to a .211 batting average against.
