March 12, 2009
LAS VEGAS -
Week Six Release in PDF Format 
Leading Off: After spending four of the first five weekends at home, the UNLV Rebels will become road warriors for the next two. The Rebels will head to Northern California for both trips, as they play in this weekend's National Invitational Softball Tournament (March 13-15) in San Jose and the following weekend (March 20-21) in Sacramento.
This weekend, UNLV will play a pair of games each on Friday (Canisius and Sacramento State) and Saturday (Long Beach State and San Jose State) before closing down the Invitational on Sunday with a single game (UC Davis).
On Deck: UNLV will make its third of four scheduled trips to California, when they return for the Capital Classic (March 20-21) hosted by Sacramento State.
The Rebels will play twice each on Friday (Dartmouth and California) and Saturday (Sacramento State and Cal Poly).
Facing Sacramento State and Cal Poly will not be new to UNLV in 2009, as they will have met the Hornets (San Jose) and Cal Poly (Cathedral City) earlier this season.
Weekend Recap: The UNLV Rebels were perfect on the weekend, as they came away with four wins in its fourth and final home tournament, the UNLV Invitational.
The Rebels took two games from UC Santa Barbara, both in come-from-behind fashion, while winning singles against Texas Tech and Notre Dame.
The team scored 26 runs overall and only gave up 13.
Offensively speaking, the Rebels had eight players rack up .300 or better batting averages, five of which broke the .400 barrier. Jaci Hull led the way with her .500 tally. Tara Bendt (.444), Brittany Bolinger (.417) and Brittany Meade were above .400, while Marissa Nichols (.385), Elena Fata (.333), Laura Briones (.333) and Bri Bernardi (.333) rounded out the octuplets.
In the circle, the Rebel hurlers went 4-0 with one save and owned an ERA of 2.00.
Jessica O'Connor led the way with a 2-0 mark in 6.0 innings of work and an ERA of 3.50. Traci Odegard (3.50 ERA, 10.0 IP) and Stephanie Bregante (0.00 ERA, 12.0 IP) picked up a win apiece, while Odegard added a save.
