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Iowa State University Athletics
Softball Returns Home To Face No. 24 Nebraska
03.22.2016 | Softball
AMES, Iowa - After five-straight weeks on the road, the Iowa State softball team is back home and will play its first game of the 2016 season at the Cyclone Sports Complex this Wednesday. The Cyclones will host Nebraska, with first pitch set of 2 p.m. CT.
Admission to this weekend's game, and all of Iowa State's home games at the Cyclone Sports Complex, is free of charge.
The game will be shown live on Cyclones.tv Powered by Mediacom and the Cyclones.TV web player. For more information about Cyclones.tv, click here.
Live stats will be provided by cyclones.com and can be accessed here. For further coverage of Iowa State softball, be sure to follow @CycloneSB on Twitter.
Cyclone Headlines
1. Iowa State (13-13 overall) will play its home opener on Wednesday, March 23 as the Cyclone take on No. 24 Nebraska at the Cyclone Sports Complex. First pitch is set for 2 p.m. CT.
2. The Cyclones went 1-2 this past weekend in Fort Myers, Fla. ISU fell 1-0 to Purdue to open the weekend, and then split a pair of games with the hosting Florida Gulf Coast Eagles. Iowa State's 8-3 win over FGCU marked its best offensive output since an 11-3 win over Fordham on March 4.
3. Pitcher Emma Hylen continued her strong freshman campaign, going 1-0 over the weekend to improve to 6-3 on the season. Hylen went 4.0 innings, giving up one run just three hits. She currently has the second-best ERA in the Big 12 at 1.58.
4. Brittany Gomez has come on strong of late and showed why she was one of the top returning offensive players in the conference. The senior is hitting .452 (14-for-31) over the past 10 games and is now No. 2 in the Big 12 in hits per game at 1.38.
5. The top of the Iowa State lineup has proven especially crucial for the Cyclone offense so far this season. The lead-off batters Gomez and Bingham have scored 20 and 17 runs, respectively, despite Bingham missing the past five games. The duo has combined for 34 percent of all Cyclone runs this season.
6. Gomez also leads the Big 12 in steals (16) and steals per game (.62), as she is well on her way to becoming the first player in school history with 20+ steals in four consectuvive seasons.
7. Cappaert has six home runs so far this season, including two in ISU's 8-5 victory over Ball State on 2-19. The senior currently ranks tied for fourth on the conference home runs list.
8. Hylen was a key to Iowa State's success at the Aggie Invitational. Hylen went 2-1 in four appearances at the Aggie Invitational, giving up just five earned runs in 16.1 innings.
9. Freshman Savannah Sanders was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week following her 3-0 weekend at the Cyclone Indoor Invitational. The Mt. Juliet, Tenn., native had a 0.81 ERA with 23 strikeouts in 17.1 innings of work. Sanders was the first freshman in school history to earn the honor.
10. Sanders is the Big 12's top freshman pitcher in strikeouts (57), shutouts (2), starts (13) and innings pitched (81.2).
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