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. Boom.

A walk-off home run in her final regular season game at Easton Stadium.

However, the heroics from final-year hitters were not confined to 2023.

On Tuesday, Sharlize Palacios entered the game in a similar spot. The redshirt senior catcher entered in the sixth frame as a pinch hitter in a tied game.

Boom. Again.

Palacios put No. 6 UCLA softball (28-9, 12-3 Pac-12) ahead against Long Beach State and clinched its sixth-straight win before the Bruins head into a final home series – Senior Weekend – against her former team No. 20 Arizona (31-13-1, 12-9).

“For the Senior Weekend, I’m going to do my best to enjoy taking the time that I have, every opportunity I get, and just being there, enjoying, trying to take it all in,” Palacios said. “As a team, we’re going to still be on the same mode and momentum that we’ve been on – attack mode.”

Arizona is coming off four straight wins, including a sweep of Arizona State and a win against then-No. 22 Oregon. Multiple Wildcats also featured in the weekly Pac-12 awards.

Arizona utility Kaiah Altmeyer earned Pac-12 Player of the Week honors for the first time in her career, going 5-for-8 with six RBIs against the Sun Devils over the past weekend. Altmeyer has hit .338 throughout the season.

Pac-12 Freshman of the Week went to Regan Shockey for the fourth time this season. Shockey features at the top of the Wildcats’ lineup and leads the conference in hits – featuring sixth nationwide.

However, it was not a desert sweep.

Pac-12 Pitcher of the Week went to the Bruins’ Taylor Tinsley. The sophomore right-hander collected all three wins against then-No. 5 Stanford, striking out a career-high 15 in the series’ first game.

“Taylor’s down to do business,” said associate head coach Kirk Walker.

Walker added that Tinsley has felt confident and secure in coach Kelly Inouye-Perez’s game calling, her delivery of pitches and her defense’s ability to back her up in the field.

“If those three things stay locked in … It’s going to be very fun to watch,” Walker said.

Among those the program will honor over the weekend are redshirt seniors, shortstop Maya Brady, outfielder Janelle Meoño, infielder Seneca Curo and Palacios, as well as graduate student outfielder Jadelyn Allchin, redshirt junior outfielder Madison Pacini and senior utility Thessa Malau’ulu.

Inouye-Perez said the upcoming senior celebrations will be emotional, particularly given Brady’s tenure at UCLA. She added that having Meoño, Allchin and Palacios – all of whom played travel ball with Brady before college – transfer to Westwood over the last two years created a special environment.

“They’ve been a backbone, they all have postseason experience, their leadership has been great,” Inouye-Perez said. “I told them, ‘You know, it’s all about creating memories,’ and they’ve chosen to play together in this last lap – and they are. We’re enjoying it, and I’m proud of them.”

The Bruins open their final homestand Friday against the Wildcats at 7 p.m. at Easton Stadium, while Senior Day celebrations are slated for Sunday at 2 p.m.