DENTON – North Texas softball picked up its fourth home series sweep with a 9-1 win over UTSA in six innings. The Mean Green (29-15, 14-4) picked up four runs in the sixth to end the ballgame.
 
Hope Trautwein threw her 12th complete game, striking out 10 batters. Birthday girl Nicole Ochotnicki went 2-for-3 driving in two runs. The Mean Green have not lost a Saturday home game in 2019.
 
North Texas sits tied at the top of Conference USA West.
 
"What we do revolves around [Trautwein]," head coach Rodney DeLong said. "I think she's getting better about the mental side of that. It's what we needed and it's what we got."

The Roadrunners (17-26, 6-12) got the scoring started with an RBI single in the first before Trautwein rolled. Ochotnicki doubled in the third allowing Harley Perella to drive her home to tie the game at one.
 
North Texas struck for four runs in the fifth both off home runs. Hannah Gerecke hit her third of the season a solo shot to make it 2-1. Tayla Evans hit a three-run home run, her fifth of the season to put some cushion on the North Texas lead.
 
The Mean Green went for four more runs in the sixth which would put the run rule into effect. Ochotnicki doubled home two runs before Katie Clark followed up with a double of her own. Clark went 2-for-4 with two runs scored in the series finale.
 
"Hope did so great today," Ochotnicki said. "She held their offense off until we could kick ours in. She did an amazing job. We learned from other peoples at-bats and hitting is contagious."
 
Perella tripled getting Clark across the plate ending the game. The Mean Green improve to 15-1 at home in 2019 after concluding their third C-USA sweep. It is just the third time in program history North Texas has reached 29 wins.
 
"We've got to win our conference games," DeLong said. "We can't control what the others do. We just have to prepare and keep playing hard."
 
North Texas returns to The Lace on Wednesday for a 6 p.m. match up against No. 13 Oklahoma State.