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Cal Poly Hosts Hawai’i April 25-26 to Close Home Schedule
4/22/2025 2:36:00 PM | Softball
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SAN LUIS OBISPO – The Cal Poly softball program completes its 23-game home schedule at Bob Janssen Field when hosting Hawai’i for a three-game, April 25-26 series. Action opens with a 5 p.m. matchup on Friday, April 25 before a 2 p.m. senior day doubleheader on Saturday, April 26 for Cal Poly, which was eliminated from the inaugural May 7-10 Big West Championship picture after being swept at home by UC San Diego (April 18-19). Meanwhile, Hawai’i – winners of six of its last seven – has ascended to third place in the Big West standings with two conference series remaining.
FOLLOW CAL POLY THIS WEEK: Live stats for all three of Cal Poly’s April 25-26 series matchups versus Hawai’i will be available via GoPoly.com HERE.
CAL POLY VERSUS HAWAI’I: Cal Poly seeks its first home series win against Hawai’i since taking two of three matchups in 2017 (the Mustangs were swept in 2019 and 2021 and dropped two of three in 2023). The two sides split a pair of matchups at Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium last spring. Hawai'i leads the all-time series, 22-15, dating to the first matchup on Feb. 24, 1995 – a 4-0 Hawai'i victory. The two programs first met on three occasions in 1995, then not again until Hawai'i joined the Big West for the 2013 season.
BERMUDEZ TAKES OVER BATTING LEAD: Hitting .357 (10-for-28) over Cal Poly’s last nine games, freshman outfielder Maddy Bermudez has emerged as Cal Poly’s top batter with a .287 (35-for-122) mark. One of only three Mustangs to start all 41 games and the only freshman to do so, Bermudez also tops Cal Poly with 35 hits and 15 runs and ranks second with nine multi-hit games. Having hit safely a team best 26 times, Bermudez is batting .313 (20-for-64) in 21 Big West matchups.
BLANCHARD KEEPS THE PACE: Having reached base in nine successive games and 29 of her last 33 appearances, junior outfielder turned designated player Kiara Blanchard – the Big West’s leader with 13 doubles and first in Cal Poly’s lineup with 54 total bases, 10 multi-hit games and 15 runs – enters the April 25-26 series versus Hawai’i as the program’s second leading batter with a .284 (33-for-116) mark. Blanchard, who led off Cal Poly’s April 19 series finale against UC San Diego with her second homer of the season, tops Cal Poly with a .353 (18-for-51) batting average in 21 Big West games.
BARNETT ADDS OFFENSE TO THE RESUME: The reigning Big West Defensive Player of the Year honoree, senior catch Julia Barnett continues to lead Cal Poly with 17 RBI while hitting a career best .262 (32-for-122). A starter in all 128 games since the start of the 2023 season, Barnett is a .986 career fielder with just 10 errors in 747 total chances. After finishing second among NCAA Division I catchers last season by throwing out 19 baserunners, Barnett currently ranks seventh nationally with 16 thrown out.
ERSKINE ON THE RISE: After starting her collegiate career with just one hit in the first seven games, freshman shortstop Sienna Erskine has emerged as Cal Poly’s third leading hitter with a .270 (27-for-100) mark. Erskine, who collected a career best three hits during a 4-3 victory versus Loyola Marymount (March 2), ranks fourth in the lineup with seven multi-hit efforts.
CONDON MAKES BIG WEST HISTORY: During the second matchup of Cal Poly’s April 12 doubleheader at UC Riverside, 21st-year head coach Jenny Condon became just the third coach in Big West softball history – and first female – to manage 1,000 games at a member program. The winningest female head coach in university history, Condon ranks sixth in Big West history with both 485 total victories and 209 conference wins. A four-time Big West Coach of the Year honoree, Condon has accounted for 41 percent of the program’s 1,195 all-time victories.
Mustangs complete their 2025 home schedule with a three-game, April 25-26 series against Hawai'i. Action gets underway Friday, April 25 with a 5 p.m. matchup at Bob Janssen Field.#RideHigh pic.twitter.com/RjSS5jmrtc
— Cal Poly Softball (@CalPolySoftball) April 21, 2025
