Greenville Trek 2.0 Requires Cougars’ Best

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The No. 4 seeded University of Houston softball team makes its second of two trips to Greenville, N.C., as the Cougars face the No. 5 seeded Tulsa Hurricane in the First Round of The American Conference Softball Championship on Thursday at 10 a.m. CT inside Max R. Joyner Family Stadium.

No. 4 HOUSTON (26-26-1, 8-9-1 American) vs No. 5 TULSA (18-29-1, 7-9-1 American)
Date \| Time				Thursday, May 12 at 10 a.m. CT
Location				Greenville, N.C. \| Max R. Joyner Family Stadium
Live Stream				ESPN+
Live Stats				Live Stats
Game Notes				Houston \| ~~Tulsa~~
Fan Guide				Tournament Fan Guide
Social Media				@uhcougarsb \| @uhccougarsb \| Cougar Softball \| #GoCoogs

HEAD COACH KRISTIN VESELY
Overall record: 165-132-1 (6th season)
At Houston: same

SERIES VS TULSA
Overall record: 29-23-1, Tulsa
Under Vesely: 6-11-1, Tulsa
Streak: none, tie

FIRST PITCH

Houston has played in two conference tournaments in Greenville, once in 2011 while in C-USA and most recently in 2017.
The Cougars are 1-6 all-time against Tulsa in conference tournament games and are 0-4 in the American Athletic Conference Softball Championship against the Hurricane.
Houston has never played Wichita State or UCF in The American Softball Championship. UH would face UCF for the first time in the tourney if it beats Tulsa.
The Cougars are 12-6 all-time in their first game of conference tournaments. UH is 4-2 all-time in it's opening game of The American Softball Championship tournament.
The Cougars have turned 26 double plays in 2022, tied for second-most in the country. Houston is two double plays away from tying the school record (2014, '15, '18)
Becca Schulte is one stolen base away from being Houston's third-ever 10 HR-10 SB member (13 HR-9 SB currently). She would join Holly Anderson (10-19) in 2012 and Haley Outon (22-10) also in 2012 as the only other two.
Houston has downed two ranked opponents in 2022 and has beaten a ranked opponent each of the last seven seasons and every year under Vesely.
The Cougars are 2-7 against Top 25 RPI teams, 3-8 against RPI 26-50, 2-7 against RPI 51-100 and 19-4-1 against RPI 100+.
Houston put together a six-run comeback against #18 UCF on April 24, the largest comeback by the Cougars since 2018.
Paige Hulsey tied a school record for stolen bases with a perfect 4-for-4 on stolen base attempts against Memphis on April 3.
Hannah Todd became the first pitcher to win all three games of a series in program history winning all three games against Memphis.
Becca Schulte hit a home run in the final game of 2020, did not play in 2021, and hit a home run in her first at-bat of 2022. Thus, Schulte hit a home run in back-to-back games spanning 23 months.
Graduate student Becca Schulte is competing in her seventh season as a collegiate athlete. Schulte graduated high school in 2015. She is one of two known 7th-year softball players in the DI ranks.
Houston faced four Preseason Top 25 teams in 2022, including three teams in the Top 10 of D1Softball's preseason poll.
The Cougars played 10 teams that made a regional in 2021 and seven Power 5 opponents in 2022, facing those seven teams a total of 11 total times.

THE AMERICAN SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES

The No. 1 seed has won three of the six completed American Softball Championship tournaments.
The No. 2, 4, 5 and 7 seeds have never won the conference tournament.
The No. 3 seed has won two of the conference tournaments.
The No. 6 seed has won one conference tournament (Tulsa, 2018).
The No. 4 seed has never made it to the championship game.

UP NEXT
If the Cougars beat Tulsa, they will play No. 1 seed UCF on Friday at Noon CT.

TICKETS
Attendance to the 2022 American Conference Softball Championship is FREE.

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