Spartan Daily

Softball Gears Up for Louisville Slugger Tourney

The SJSU softball team is headed to Las Vegas, Nev., this weekend for a five-game tournament hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The Louisville Slugger Desert Classic is the Spartans’ second tournament of the season and will take place Friday through Sunday, headlined by the No. 1-ranked University of California, Berkeley.

On Friday, SJSU will take on Utah State and Ohio State in a double-header.

Saturday will include games against top-ranked California and UC Riverside, and the tournament will conclude for the Spartans with Idaho State on Sunday afternoon.

SJSU went 1-4 last week at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz., facing four top-25 teams.

They concluded that tournament by losing 2-1 in eight innings to No. 15-ranked Texas A&M.

After the Kajikawa Classic, senior pitchers Amanda Pridmore and Jennifer Ames vaulted themselves into the top-10 list of career strikeout leaders in SJSU softball history.

Pridmore now ranks fourth with 281 career strikeouts, while Ames now ranks tenth with 152 strikeouts.

Both players pitched during the Kajikawa Classic.

Pridmore pitched three complete games, averaging nine strikeouts per game, while Ames heads into this weekend with a 0-2 record this season.

Sophomore Jessica Garcia leads SJSU in hitting with a .429 batting average, and enters the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic with a five-game hitting streak.

She has hit safely in all five SJSU games this season.