Huskies Return Home To Face #23 Arizona State

SEATTLE - Washington returns home this weekend for a three-game series against the Arizona State Sun Devils. The Huskies will put a ten-game win streak on the line, including three consecutive Pac-12 series sweeps. The Sun Devils are 25-14 this season, including a 5-7 mark in conference play.

Washington hosted Arizona State last in 2017, sweeping that series against the then-#21 Sun Devils. Last season, Arizona State won the Pac-12 opening series 2-1 against Washington in Tempe, with all three games shutouts. Arizona State was also a Women's College World Series participant last year but did not face Washington.

This is Washington's fifth win streak of 10+ games over the last two years and second this season. The Huskies have four shutouts in their last five games, all against Pac-12 opponents.

		SHORTSTOP, BIG BAT
Sis Bates hit .727/.750/.818 last weekend, including her first career four-hit game. Since going 0-for-5 to start the Oregon series, Bates has hit .654 with 14 runs scored and seven RBI over nine games. Bates has five multi-hit games in that time and 14 total on the year: she has gone hitless in only ten games. She is one of nine players in the Pac-12 hitting over .400, only two of whom have more plate appearances this year than Bates. With four more runs, she would have her third season scoring 40+, something achieved by only ten Huskies ever. Jaime Clark is the only Husky to score 40+ runs in four seasons.

		FLORES FLOORS IT
Morganne Flores' streak of consecutive games with at least one RBI finally came to a close after eight games. During that time, Flores hit seven home runs, scored ten runs, and drove in 14. It was the longest RBI streak by a Husky since Ali Aguilar also had an eight-game streak in 2015. Flores has now had four different RBI streaks of five or more games in her career. Only Maddi Hackbarth of Arizona State has hit more home runs than Flores' six in conference play, while Flores' 13 Pac-12 RBI rank sixth in the conference.

		THE QUEENS OF THE K
Gabbie Plain and Taran Alvelo rank first and second, respectively, in strikeouts in Pac-12 play this season. Alvelo is eighth in the country in strikeouts and needs only 15 more to reach 800 in her career, which would make her the fourth Husky ever to reach that mark. Plain is the only Pac-12 pitcher thus far to record 50 strikeouts in league play and with ten more strikeouts would reach 150 on the season. No team in the country has multiple pitchers with 150+ Ks. Last year, UW was one of seven teams with that distinction.

		STARING DOWN HISTORY
Taran Alvelo is two wins away from tying Tia Bollinger for second in program history with 95. Alvelo has a chance to become just the third pitcher in UW history to win 100 games if she can earn seven more wins this season. She is currently on a six-game undefeated streak, having allowed only three earned runs in her last 33 innings of work.

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