No. 4 Softball finishes Texas Invite with a 9-4 win over Weber State

Sunday, February 23

Austin, Texas

12:30 p.m. CT

University of Texas

15-1

Weber State

5-10

Weber State

Texas

No. 4 Softball finishes Texas Invite with a 9-4 win over Weber State

02.23.2020 | Softball

Box Score

Junior third baseman Mary Iakopo went 3-for-4 with a double, HR and a career-high five RBIs

AUSTIN, Texas – On Sunday afternoon in front of 942 fans at Red & Charline McCombs Field, No. 4 Texas softball (15-1) got back into the win column while wrapping up the Texas Invitational with a 9-4 victory over Weber State (5-10).

Important Notes

Junior third baseman Mary Iakopo set a new career high with five RBIs against Weber State as part of a 3-for-4 effort with a double and a HR.
Texas hit .435 as a team during the Texas Invitational with 20 extra-base hits (14 doubles), 43 runs scored, 21 walks and a 1.172 OPS.
Junior second baseman Janae Jefferson (.667 – 8-for-12, four walks, six runs scored), junior first baseman Lauren Burke (.600 – 9-for-15, seven runs scored, four doubles, triple, six RBIs) and Iakopo (.583 – 7-for-12, seven runs, two doubles, triple, HR, seven RBIs) helped power the Longhorns offense during the Texas Invitational.
Texas has out-hit all 16 opponents it has faced this season and is averaging 10.75 hits-per-contest and 9.1 runs-per-contest

Major Players

Iakopo (3-for-4, two runs, double, HR, five RBIs); senior center fielder Shannon Rhodes (2-for-4, two runs, HR, two RBIs); senior left fielder Kaitlyn Washington (2-for-2, RBI); Jefferson (3-for-4, three runs, double)

In the Circle

Sophomore Shea O'Leary improved to 3-0 overall after allowing four earned runs on eight hits with no walks and two K's over five innings. Freshman Courtney Day permitted just one hit and struck out two in two frames of relief work.

The Details

Texas utilized the long ball to take early control over Weber State in the bottom of the first. After a perfect one-out Jefferson bunt single, Iakopo hammered a towering shot directly over the left field foul pole for a 2-0 lead. With senior designated player Miranda Elish on through a single to right, Rhodes immediately cashed her in by blasting a two-run shot of her own to left center to make it 4-0.

The Wildcats answered back with a long ball of their own in the top of the second as designated player Mariah Ramirez became the first opponent to hit a HR off a Texas pitcher this season with a two-run shot to cut the deficit to 4-2.

With two Longhorns aboard in the bottom of the second, Iakopo struck again by driving a two-run double to the wall in right center. After a Weber State throwing error on a steal attempt allowed another run to cross, Washington ripped a RBI single up the middle to boost the gap to 8-2.

WSU wouldn't quit, however, as the Wildcats strung together four singles off O'Leary in the fifth to plate two more to make it 8-4.

Iakopo added an insurance run for the Burnt Orange & White on a RBI single in the bottom of the sixth, and from there, Day allowed a one-out Weber State single in the seventh but nothing else as Texas prevailed, 9-4.