No. 13 Arizona run-ruled Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., on Saturday with a 15-3 win in five innings, securing its fifth consecutive Big 12 series win and improving to 35-7 overall and 12-5 in the conference.
After losing two of three games against UCF at Hillenbrand Stadium to start the Big 12 schedule last month, Arizona has won series against Utah, Arizona State, BYU, Oklahoma State and Kansas.
Arizona will go for the sweep over Kansas (17-19, 4-10) on Sunday at 10 a.m., Tucson time, on ESPN+. The Wildcats enter the game on a four-game winning streak while the Jayhawks have last their last three games.
The Wildcats scored 15 runs on 11 hits Saturday with Miranda Stoddard going 2-for-2 with four RBIs.
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Paige Dimler hit a two-run home run and finished with three RBIs and three runs.
Tayler Biehl and Dakota Kennedy each drove in two runs.
Arizona struck first with seven runs in the opening inning.
Sydney Stewart was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to drive in the first run. Dimler walked to bring in the second run. Stoddard and Biehl each drove in a pair of runs with singles. Kennedy then hit her eighth double of the season to bring Arizona’s seventh run of the inning across.
In the second, the Wildcats plated six runs on seven hits to take a 13-0 lead.
Stoddard singled up the middle to drive in two runs.
An error by the Jayhawks on the play allowed a third run to score. Kennedy had an RBI fielder’s choice to bring in the second run of the inning. Emily Schepp hit an RBI pinch-hit single and Kaiah Altmeyer hit an RBI single to complete the scoring in the inning.
Dimler’s two-run home run in the third inning increased the lead to 15-0.
In the bottom of the fourth, Kansas scored three runs with reliever Brooke Mannon in the circle to avoid the shutout.
A single through the left side brought a pair of runs across. The third run scored on a bases-loaded walk.
The runs broke a 19-inning scoreless streak for Arizona pitching over the last four games dating to last week’s series with Oklahoma State at Hillenbrand.
Devyn Netz pitched a perfect two innings to start the game and improved to 16-4. She struck out three of the six batters she faced.
Sarah Wright pitched a scoreless 1 1/3 innings to close the game and did not allow a hit.
Netz has not allowed a run while giving up only two hits in her last three outings (span of eight innings) against Oklahoma State and Kansas. She has struck out seven and walked three in that span.
Stoddard, who is 9-0, has allowed only one earned run in her last five appearances (13 innings) against BYU, Oklahoma State and Kansas. She has allowed 11 hits and three walks while striking out six in that span.
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