Cal Poly Back Home to Host Hawai’i for Four-Game, April 9-10 Series

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SAN LUIS OBISPO – The Cal Poly softball program returns home for the first time in three weeks and plays two of its ensuing three Big West Conference series at Bob Janssen Field when hosting Hawai'i for doubleheaders on Friday, April 9 (4 p.m.) and Saturday, April 10 (3 p.m.). With Big West series limited to three games, the second matchup of Saturday's doubleheader will not count toward the Big West standings. Swept at UC Santa Barbara (April 2-3) and seeking to snap a five-game slide, Cal Poly (8-11, 3-6) entered the week trailing fourth place Hawai'i (6-7, 5-4) by two games in the Big West standings and second place Long Beach State (12-5, 8-1) by five games.

FOLLOW CAL POLY THIS WEEK: Zachary Anderson-Yoxsimer provides play-by-play for Cal Poly's four-game series with Hawai'i via GoPoly.com HERE … live stats and streaming video of all four series games will also be available via GoPoly.com HERE.

CAL POLY VERSUS HAWAI'I: Swept at home by Hawai'i in 2019 and at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium in 2018, Cal Poly looks to snap a six-game series slide. Cal Poly won two of three series home games against Hawai'i in 2017, but trails in the all-time series, 17-8.

CLOSE, BUT: Including 9-8 and 7-6 losses at UC Santa Barbara (April 2), 10 of Cal Poly's 19 games this season – 53 percent – have been decided by one run with the Mustangs holding a 3-7 record in those decisions.

CENTER (FIELDER) OF SUCCESS: Having never batted higher than .262 during her previous three seasons, senior center fielder Noellah Ramos (above) takes a team leading .379 (25-for-66) mark that ranks fifth among Big West hitters into Cal Poly's April 9-10 series versus Hawai'i. Also Cal Poly's leader with seven multi-hit games – including three-hit efforts versus Saint Mary's (March 6) and at UC Riverside (March 27) – Ramos has hit safely in 16 of 19 games. Ramos has also struck out just seven times in 66 at-bats this year. A starter in 139 of 143 appearances for Cal Poly since her 2018 freshman season, Ramos is a .966 career fielder.

AMOS'S EXCEPTIONAL SEASON: Now a career .298 (64-for-215) batter after ranking second in Cal Poly's lineup and seventh in the Big West with a .371 (23-for-62) batting average this season, junior infielder Maddie Amos leads the Mustangs with seven multi-hit games and five multi-RBI games. The Big West's leader with seven doubles while sitting fourth in slugging percentage (.661) and seventh for home runs (three) and total bases (41), Amos has hit safely in 15 of Cal Poly's 19 games.

MARTIN PLACING FINISHING TOUCHES ON STANDOUT CAREER: Cal Poly's fifth leading hitter this season with a .309 (17-for-55) mark, senior first baseman Hailey Martin also ranks second in the lineup with five doubles and four multi-RBI games. A .300 (161-for-536) career hitter, Martin remains fifth in program history with 34 doubles, seventh with 97 RBI, 13th with 50 walks and 16th with 217 total bases. A starter in 186 of a possible 202 of Cal Poly's games since her 2017 freshman season – and all 19 this year – Martin is a .982 career fielder with just 22 errors in 1,247 total career chances.

CAL POLY'S MAY 1 DOUBLEHEADER OPENER SELECTED FOR ESPNU: For the first time in six seasons and just the second time in program history, Cal Poly will host a nationally-televised matchup at Bob Janssen Field with the first game of the program's Saturday, May 1 doubleheader against Cal State Fullerton scheduled for broadcast on ESPNU. First pitch for the doubleheader shifted to 2 p.m. (from 1 p.m.) for the matchup, which marks Cal Poly's first nationally-televised matchup since hosting Long Beach State on ESPNU on May 2, 2015.

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