Santa Clara.....  

• Plays their first game since March 15 when they travel to Fresno State for a nonconference doubleheader on Wednesday
• Last played on March 15 beating Dartmouth, 5-0 and have won nine of their last 11 gams.  
• Was scheduled to play five games at a tournament in Idaho State during the weekend of March 17-19 but it was canceled due to extended winter conditions in Pocatello, Idaho.
• Has a 5-8 record away from home including 1-2 in true road contests.
• Has a slashline of .307/.404/.441 with 155 runs scored (5.5 runs per game)
• The 19 home runs hit this season is 11 more than they hit all last season.  It is the most home runs in a season since hitting 19 in 2016.  
• Ashley Trierweiler leads the team in hitting with a .500 batting average, a .617 on-base percentage and a .850 slugging percentage.  She also leads the team in hits (40), doubles (7), runs (34), home runs (7), walks (23), and stolen bases (11).  She also leads the West Coast Conference in all mentioned categories except doubles and stolen bases.  
  • Trierweiler currently has a 18-game hitting streak and has successfully reached base in 22-straight games.
• Sammy Needham has successfully reached base in 24 of the last 25 games, having her 24-game streak snapped in the last game against Dartmouth.  
• In the circle, Santa Clara has a 3.65 ERA.  
• Hannah Edwards leads the team with a 2.82 ERA while Sage Hager tops the team with seven wins.
• Sage Hager has won six-straight games.    

LEAGUE LEADERS

• Treierweiler (.500) and Needham (.391) are first and fourth in the West Coast Conference in hitting. 
• Trierweiler (seven) and Morgan Salmon (five) are first and third in the WCC in home runs. 
• Five Broncos occupy the top five of the seven RBI producers in the WCC - 1: Trierweiler (22 RBIs), T2. Morgan Salmon (21), 4. Lauren LaHood (19), T5. Sammy Needham (18) and T7. Emma Bickford (17)
• Trierweiler (11 SBs) and Bailey McLaughlin (8) are second and fourth in the lead in stolen bases.
• Bickford is second toughest batter to strikeout in the WCC, fanning once every 24.7 at-bats.  (three strikeouts in 74 at-bats).  
• Sage Hager is second in the WCC in wins with seven.
• Edwards is fifth in the conference in ERA with 2.82.

WCC Preseason Poll / Coaching Staff

• SCU, under fourth-year head coach Gina Carbonatto, enters the season picked to finish fourth in the West Coast Conference as voted on by the six conference head coaches. 
• Last season, the Broncos finished third with a 7-8 conference record, the second highest conference victory total since 2006.  The 21-30 overall record was the highest win total since also the 2006 campaign when they went 24-34.
  • Carbonatto has served as the assistant coach for Great Britain's Under-22 women's softball team since 2018.
  • Last summer Carbonatto coached Great Britain's U-22 that competed in the European Under-22 Women's Fastpitch Championship in Kunovice, Czech Republic.
  • Bronco players Cameron McGinnis and Morgan Salmon were selected to play on Great Britain U-22 team earning two of the 13 roster spots.
• On Carbonatto's SCU staff are pitching coach Jen Deering, who is also in her fourth season, hitting coach Kristi Villar who joined the Broncos from South Dakota State last July and graduate assistant Montana Dixon in her second season.  
• For the upcoming season, Carbonatto will be the third base coach and Deering the first base coach.

2023 Roster

• The 21 player roster has 14 returnees including the top six hitters (by batting average) and top three pitchers.
• The 14 returnees account for 311 of the 341 hits and 20 of the 21 wins in 2022.
• Seven newcomers, all from the prep ranks, dot the roster.
• All but one player hails from California.  The lone out of stater, Emma Bickford, is from Sammamish, Washington.
• Breakdown by Class:
  • Graduate (3): Emma Bickford, Sammy Needham, Allyson Ferreira
  • Seniors (2): Regan Dias, Lauren LaHood (RS)
  • Juniors (4): Cameron McGinnis, Bailey McLaughlin, Ella Romero, Ashley Trierweiler (RS) 
  • Sophomores (5): Lauren Bryson, Abigail Charpentier, Sage Hager, Hannah Edwards (RS), Morgan Salmon
  • Freshmen (7): Robynn Balmediano, Leiora Davidson, Hazyl Gray, Jacqueline Lemus, Marie Martorella, Mariah Montalvo, Bethany Shih.

All-West Coast Conference Honors

• Three Broncos - Emma Bickford, Hannah Edwards and Ashley Trierweiler - were named preseason All-WCC.
• All five Broncos who were named All-WCC last season return - First Team: Trierweiler; Second Team: Edwards and Lauren LaHood; Honorable Mention: Sage Hager and Sammy Needham