PREVIEW: Softball Starts Homestand with Midweek Against Lamar

HOUSTON – The University of Houston Softball team returns home to host Lamar for a midweek tilt at 6 p.m., Tuesday at Cougar Softball Stadium.

LAMAR
Date \| Time				March 18 \| 6 p.m. \| Watch \| Live Stats \| Tickets
Location				Cougar Softball Stadium
Game Notes				Game Notes

SERIES vs LAMAR

All-Time: 13-5
in Houston: 9-3
Last Houston Win: 15-7 (5); 4/16/24
Last Lamar Win: 6-5 (8); 2/25/22
Last 10 in Series: 6-4
Current Streak: W2

HEAD COACH KRISTIN VESELY
Overall record: 227-201-1 (9th season)
At Houston: same

FIRST PITCH

In its last time out, Houston dropped its lone game against #15/#14 Oklahoma State, 3-0, on Sunday.
Freshmen are well represented in the starting lineup for this year's squad. Out of 238 positional start this season, first-years have earned 111 of them (47 percent) while underclassmen as a whole have snagged 212 of the team's 238 starts (89 percent). It is believed to be both one of the most freshmen heavy lineups and underclassmen heavy lineups.
Houston has been drawing walks at a prolific rate this season. Picking up 148 bases on balls through the first 24 games, the Cougars rank second in the country in walks, sitting five walks behind Oklahoma who has played two more games. In the total is five games where Houston drew double-digit walks, including 13 against New Mexico on Feb. 7 which is the second most walks drawn in a single game by a NCAA Division I team this season as well as a new program record for walks in a game.
Houston used a 5-3-5 triple play to clinch a 4-3 win against Pitt on Feb. 15. It was the team's second triple play in program history and its first since April 7, 2007, against UTEP. The Cougars are one of six NCAA Division I teams to turn a triple play this season, joining Alcorn, Campbell, Elon, Jackson State and ULM. Houston, Alcorn and Campbell all completed the feat in the second weekend of the season.
After tying the record for most runs through 11 games with 94 runs last season, Houston is back to its run-scoring ways this year. Averaging 10.2 runs per game through five games, Houston broke its record for most runs to start the season in that span, besting its previous mark of 39 runs in 2022.
Freshman Brooke Wells played for the US Women's Junior National Team in the WBSC World Cup Group Stage last August. She helped lead the team to a 6-0 finish while herself posting nine RBIs with 10 runs scored, also collecting a .467 batting average with five extra-base hits, including a grand slam. She was named to both D1Softball's and Softball America's Freshman Watch Lists.
Cougar Softball Stadium features multiple upgrades for the 2025 season, including an expanded concessions menu, new safety netting and a new sound system.
Houston filled the third assistant coach role permitted by the NCAA last summer, hiring Barrett Barnes to complete the coaching staff. The Cougars' staff of Head Coach Kristin Vesely and assistant coaches Nadia Taylor, Hope Trautwein and Barnes are the only staff in the Big 12 who all have played either softball or baseball professionally.
Sixteen of Houston's 21 players hail from the Lone Star State, including seven from the Houston-metro area.
Vesely has defeated a ranked team in every season as head coach of Houston, including knocking-off top-ranked Texas last season for the Cougars' first win against a #1 opponent in program history.

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