The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Friday, February 23
Austin, TX
4 PM CT
University of Texas
vs
Louisiana
No. 2/2 Softball preview: Lone Star State Invitational
02.22.2024 | Softball
Texas set to host the first of two home tournaments of the 2024 season
AUSTIN, TX – The University of Texas softball program will look to push its winning streak to double digits when the Longhorns begin play in the Lone Star State Invitational against Louisiana (4 p.m. CT/LHN) and Colorado State (6:30 p.m. CT) on Friday, Fri. 23.
On the following day, Texas will play Colorado State (4:30 p.m. CT/LHN) and No. 13/12 Stanford (7 p.m. CT/LHN), before wrapping up its five-game-in-three-day schedule against Louisiana on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 12:30 p.m. CT on LHN.
GAME SCHEDULE (all games are available to watch and/or listen to)
- Friday, Feb. 23
- Stanford vs. Louisiana (11 a.m. CT) – LHN
- Stanford vs. Colorado State (1:30 p.m. CT) – LHN
- Louisiana vs. Texas (4:00 p.m. CT) – LHN
- Colorado State vs. Texas (6:30 p.m. CT) – LHN
- Saturday, Feb. 24
- Louisiana vs. Colorado State (11 a.m. CT) – LHN
- Louisiana vs. Stanford (1:30 p.m. CT) – LHN
- Colorado State vs. Texas (4:30 p.m. CT) – LHN
- Stanford vs. Texas (7:00 p.m. CT) – LHN
- Sunday, Feb. 25
- Colorado State vs. Stanford (10 a.m. CT) – LHN
- Louisiana vs. Texas (12:30 p.m. CT) – LHN
LEADING OFF
- If Texas wins both its games on Friday, Feb. 23, the Longhorns will open a new season with a 10-game winning streak for the first time since the 2021.
- In 2021, Texas began the season with 10 consecutive victories en route to earning a 43-14 overall record and a berth in the Stillwater Super Regional.
- The season prior, the Longhorns started the 2020 campaign with 14 consecutive wins.
- The potential 10-game winning streak would mark the ninth different season Texas has begun a season with at least 10 consecutive victories.
- The 2003 team holds the program record with 16 straight wins to begin its season.
- If Texas were to win all five of its games on the weekend, the Longhorns would push its winning streak to 13 consecutive games, which would be tied for the ninth-longest winning streak in program history.
- In 2021, Texas began the season with 10 consecutive victories en route to earning a 43-14 overall record and a berth in the Stillwater Super Regional.
- Just eight games into the 2024 season, sophomore catcher Reese Atwood is already tied for sixth on the program's single-season sacrifice flies list with four.
- Mary Iakopo (2022), Alyssa Washington (2022) and Taylor Ellsworth (2017) all hold the program's single-season sacrifice flies record with six.
- In just 24 official plate appearances through eight games so far this season, Reese Atwood is already 45.5 percent towards her home run total (5) from her freshman season in 2023 (11).
- Additionally, Atwood is already 46.5 percent towards her RBI total (20) from her freshman season a year ago (43).
- If Reese Atwood drives in a run against Louisiana to begin Texas' five-game stint in this weekend's action, the sophomore catcher will set a Longhorn program with at least one RBI in nine consecutive games.
- Atwood is the only person is program history to drive in a run in eight consecutive games and she has done so on two separate occasions.
- Kayden Henry will enter Texas' game against the Ragin' Cajuns on Friday afternoon with a six-game hitting streak, which is tied for the fourth-longest hitting streak to start a freshman year in program history.
- Last season, Leighann Goode broke Janae Jefferson's mark of eight consecutive games before the San Antonio native's streak was eventually broken at 10 straight games with a base hit.
- The Texas offense will enter this weekend's quintet of softball games as hot as the temperature around the Austin area.
- The Longhorns are currently first in Division I softball with a .429 team batting average, second with a 2.12 home runs per game clip, number two in scoring with 11.12 runs per game and third on on-base percentage with a .504 mark.
FOLLOW US
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Players Mentioned
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