Members of UCLA softball come together. (Aidan Sun/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated April 25 at 11:37 p.m.
Last year on Senior Day, then-graduate student Aaliyah Jordan stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the seventh.
A fresh bat was the answer the Bruins needed.
With the game tied at two in the sixth inning, redshirt senior catcher Sharlize Palacios stepped up to the batter’s box as a pinch hitter.
This post was updated April 18 at 10:33 p.m.
Coach Kelly Inouye-Perez sits just one win shy of 800 career victories.
This weekend, she’ll have the chance to reach that milestone – and start building toward the next.
Consecutive hits spurred a critical threat.
It was the final test in an evening of high pressure. Taylor Tinsley – working with a narrow lead nearly all game long – had fended off many, but faced yet another in the seventh inning.
The Titans were not impervious to Kaitlyn Terry on Tuesday night.
“She was on fire,” said junior catcher Jayla Castro. “When she gets into a rhythm and a mode, it’s really hard to kind of snap her out of that and it’s so easy working with her when she gets like that.”
The freshman pitcher/outfielder mowed down eight batters as No.
The Bruins won the series but lost their first game to the Beavers since 2017.
No. 12 UCLA softball (22-9, 8-3 Pac-12) picked up a 1-0 loss at Oregon State (16-21, 4-8) on Sunday following 6-1 and 5-2 wins Friday and Saturday, respectively.
Beach volleyball
Sabrina Baker, Daily Bruin staff
Rainy weather looms over the Bruins’ Pacific Northwest trip.
No. 1 UCLA beach volleyball (19-4, 1-0 Pac-12) will travel to Alki Beach in Seattle to compete in the Pac-12 North Invitational from Friday to Saturday, where rainy conditions are predicted.
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