If the Bruins can repeat their performance from last weekend, they will be walking away from the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic with their heads held high, boosted by a 15-2 record and will be claiming their stake as one of the nation’s top teams. Building off a perfect 5-0 record in the Wilson/DeMarini Desert Classic […]
Category Archives: Softball
Defensive effort spearheads softball senior Ally Carda’s no-hitter
Senior Ally Carda has thrown two no-hitters in her career, the most recent coming Sunday in Las Vegas as part of a 6-0 win over Boise State. While no-hitters are certainly exciting in the short term, it is unclear whether Carda’s stellar performance will hurt or help UCLA (9-2) in the long term. Carda pitched […]
UCLA softball cashes in during five-game trip to Las Vegas
This weekend at the Wilson/DeMarini Desert Classic in Las Vegas, the smart money was on No. 12 UCLA (9-2) to win big against five unranked opponents. The team did not disappoint, going 5-0 after senior pitcher Ally Carda recorded her second career no-hitter in the fifth and final game of the weekend. “It’s always kind […]
No. 12 UCLA softball begins five-game weekend set against unranked teams
Friday morning in Las Vegas, UCLA softball’s work will be winding up just as the work week is winding down. The No. 12 UCLA (4-2) starts a five-game weekend set at the 2015 Wilson/DeMarini Desert Classic hosted by UNLV with a 9 a.m. game on Friday against Northwestern (2-3). UCLA will go on to play […]
UCLA softball remains optimistic about weekend outcome
Following a four-day, six-game stretch in which UCLA went 4-2, coach Kelly Inouye-Perez seemed unfazed and even optimistic by the lackluster result. “I’m inviting adversity this year,” Inouye-Perez said. It’s not hard to see where Inouye-Perez is coming from, following a season in which her team coasted through the regular season, only to end up […]
UCLA softball allows big innings in 4-2 opening weekend
Last year, it took UCLA softball 18 games before it finally fell from the ranks of the unbeaten. This year, even though all but two starters returned from that squad, the wait before the team’s first loss wouldn’t endure past the second day of the season. In this past weekend’s SoCal Collegiate Classic, the No. […]
Powered by senior pitcher Ally Carda, softball defeats Idaho State
When the cards are stacked against a team, sometimes the only hope for a victory is an ace. In a contest that turned out to be less of a foregone conclusion and more of a delayed inevitability, No. 7 UCLA (1-0) needed to go to its ace in order to defeat Idaho State (0-1) 13-3 […]