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SAN FRANCISCO - ARIZONA’s Jessie Harper has been named the 2021 Pac-12 Softball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the Conference office announced today. The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports sponsored by the Pac-12, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their respective sports disciplines. Harper, who completed her undergraduate studies in sociology last spring with a 3.71 GPA, is currently enrolled in Arizona’s master’s in educational leadership program and has a 4.00 GPA in her graduate coursework. A 2020 CoSIDA ...

UCLA's Rachel Garcia discusses playing for team USA and defending the 2019 NCAA title UCLA's Rachel Garcia rejoined the Bruins after opting out of the 2020 season to play for team USA. This year, she will get to do both: defend their 2019 NCAA championship and play in the Olympics.  So far this season, the 2019 Honda award winner is hitting .383 has a 1.293 OPS and nine home runs. In the circle, she sports a 0.59 ERA and is 12-0 in the circle. The Bruins play Arizona in their last series on the regular season for a chance to win the Pac-12 championship.  Garcia sat down with NCAA.com to ...

Arizona-UCLA softball series will have major postseason implications and Senior Week emotions Share this story Photo by Jacob Snow/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Arizona-UCLA series is always one of the most anticipated events on the college softball calendar. The Pac-12 rivals are the winningest programs in the sport, producing 20 national championships and hundreds of All-Americans. Add increased fan capacity, senior week emotions and postseason implications into the equation, and this year’s rendition—a four-game set in Tucson—should make for an exciting finish to the regular s...

Arizona’s offense is locked in and loaded for Top 15 Territorial Cup Series against the Sun Devils Share this story Brady Vernon To say Arizona softball has dominated the Territorial Cup Series with Arizona State lately might be an understatement. The Sun Devils haven’t won a series against their in-state rivals since 2015 and the Wildcats swept the most recent meeting in 2019 without allowing a single run across three games. Following the nine-game road trip that saw Arizona struggle against UCF, Florida State and Washington pitching, the bats from Tucson are hot again. No Easy Out One...

Brooke Yanez, Allee Bunker lead No. 3 Oregon softball in shutout of No. 2 UCLA Updated 9:06 PM; EUGENE — Brooke Yanez was nearly untouchable and Allee Bunker was dialed in at the plate for Oregon softball against UCLA. Yanez struck out eight and allowed just two hits and Bunker went 3 for 3 with a two-run home run to lead the No. 3 Ducks to a 3-0 win over the No. 2 Bruins Friday afternoon at Jane Sanders Stadium. Other than feeling out the strike zone for the first few hitters, it was another stellar performance from Yanez (14-0, 1.12 ERA), who needed just 97 pitches to mow through the Bru...