Hannah Gerecke makes a throw from the outfield
Rick Yeatts Photography
5
North Texas UNT 32-16, 17-4 C-USA
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UAB UAB 15-30, 5-15 C-USA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
North Texas UNT 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 5 8 0
UAB UAB 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 1

W: Bailey Tindell (6-7) L: BLOUNT, C. (4-12)

Game Recap: Softball |

Softball Breaks Win Record, First Place In C-USA

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - North Texas softball has set a new program record for wins, and now sits atop Conference USA heading into the final weekend of regular season play. 

The Mean Green (32-16, 17-4) completed the sweep of UAB with a 5-1 win on Sunday. Bailey Tindell was immaculate throwing her second complete game of the weekend. She held The Blazers (15-30, 5-15) to just one earned run on four hits. She threw just 74 pitches after throwing just 60 pitches on Saturday in game two. Head coach Rodney DeLong was very impressed by his freshman hurler. 

"Bailey didn't have much of a fall due to injury," DeLong said. "She hasn't thrown really well day two, but today she kept her velocity up. That was one thing I liked. I feel like the team's confidence in her has grown, and it's happening at the right time."

UAB started the scoring in the first with a hard hit double down the left field line that scored one. The Mean Green would then rattle off five unanswered runs to take home the victory. North Texas scored in the third, fourth and fifth. Hannah Gerecke started the scoring with two-RBI double. Gerecke went 3-for-5 with five RBI and three walks in the series. 

"Gerk had a big hit," DeLong said. She got us going. She had a big weekend and has really been a spark plug in our lineup recently."

Harley Perella followed up in the fourth with a 2-RBI double. She leads the team with 38 RBI and bumps her batting average to .325. Hanna Rebar singled home a run in the fifth to complete the scoring. 

The Mean Green face Middle Tennessee in the final regular season series. Tickets for the #PartyAtTheLace are available online. North Texas will be playing for a regular season conference title as well as the No. 1 seed in the C-USA tournament which begins May 8 in Birmingham. 

"We've given ourselves a chance," DeLong said. "That's all we wanted. We want to play in front of our fans. Hopefully we have a big crowd and they come watch something that's never been done."
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