2015 UNLV Softball Weekly Notes - Week Thirteen

LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - The UNLV Rebels head out on the road this week with a three-game, Mountain West series in Fort Collins, Colo., against the Colorado State Rams. UNLV and CSU will play Friday through Sunday at Ram Field.

First pitch of the series is slated for 4:00 pm MT (3:00 pm PT) Friday with Saturday's and Sunday's contests are set for 1:00 pm MT (12:00 pm PT) and 12:00 pm MT (11:00 am PT) starts, respectively.

FOLLOW THE STREAM: The UNLV Rebels will have all three of their games against the Colorado State Rams streamed live in conjunction with the Mountain West Network. Links to all three affairs as well as live stats can be found at UNLVRebels.com.

ON DECK: The UNLV Rebels conclude the 2015 regular season at home with a three-game, Mountain West series versus the Fresno State Bulldogs. UNLV and FS will play Thursday, May 7 through Saturday, May 9.

Thursday's and Friday's contests are scheduled to begin at 6:00 pm, while Saturday's finale, which is also being billed as "Senior Day," is at 12:00 pm.

AS SEASONS CHANGE: The UNLV Rebels have seen a number of their own climb up the single-season and career charts as one game after another goes final. Fahren Glackin and Merina Ili have found their way into the record books, while Garie Blando and Emily Haslinger have upped their standings in various categories.

One year after being named the Mountain West's Player of the Year, Blando has amassed the third-most runs (51) and home runs (15) in a single season. To go along with those two figures, she has also accumulated a .786 slugging percentage (fourth best), 125 total bases (fifth), 14 doubles (seventh) and .403 batting average (ninth). In 2014, her .412 batting average placed her sixth overall, while her 47 runs and 73 hits both rank seventh.

In the career book, she is fourth in on-base percentage (.447), fifth in batting average (.376), sixth and slugging (.587). She is three home runs and three hit-by-pitches shy of cracking the top 10 in each mark, as she owns 19 homers and 10 HBPs.

Haslinger has moved up the career records in slugging percentage (fifth: .597) and home runs (ninth: 26) this season. In 2014, she smashed 15 home runs, which is tied for third with Blando's output this season.

Glackin has paired her 30 walks (T8th) into a high on-base percentage (.528), which currently ranks as the best in program history for a single year. Her classmate, Merina Ili, is tied for seventh in HBPs with eight.

LOOKING BACK A WEEK: The UNLV Rebels went 1-2 at home last week in a three-game, Mountain West series against the San Jose State Spartans. UNLV's offense jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first contest only to go cold the remainder of the affair, while SJSU's heated up in an 11-3, six-inning decision. The Rebels were unable to muster any offense in game two either, as the Spartans ran away with a 10-0 victory in five frames. Things turned for the better in the third meeting, as the Scarlet & Gray rebounded with a resounding 8-0 win.

The Rebel offense hit at a .308 clip with a trio of players scattering a minimum of three hits for at least a .375 or better batting average. Jade Yadao-Valdez led all with her .500 effort (3-for-6), while Garie Blando, who hit .444, had team bests in hits (four), RBI (three), total bases (eight), slugging percentage (.889) and stolen bases (one). Alyssa Cordova also had three hits for a .375 average with two RBI.

In the circle, Janine Petmecky went 1-1 in two starts and a total of 9.2 innings pitched. Petmecky took the loss in game two, but rebounded in the finale with a four-hit, complete-game shutout. Morgan Ettinger was on the hook for the first loss in the series.

GOING STREAKING: Over the past two seasons the UNLV Rebels have witnessed three of the longest hitting streaks in program history. Last year, Stefany Valentino and Garie Blando scattered at least one hit in 24 and 17 games, respectively. The former's tally overtook the previous high of 22 set by UNLV Hall of Famer Kim Rondina in 1995.

Blando's 17-game stretch in 2014 was just one-upped by a 19-game run that is still on going after last weekend's three-game, Mountain West series against San Jose State. The 2014 MW Player of the Year had already amassed hitting streaks of six and nine games before her current one.

Dating back to game three of the conference series at San Diego State (March 22), the Rebel junior is hitting .508 with 31 hits in a total of 61 at-bats. More impressively, nearly 55 percent of her hits have been of the extra-base variety with 12 home runs, four doubles and one triple, which translates to a 1.197 slugging percentage. She has also had seven multiple-hit games with four three-hit affairs. Besides the hits, she has found other means of reaching base with 13 walks for a .595 on-base percentage.

Her 17-game streak from a year ago saw her hit .483 (29-for-60) with eight mulitple-hit contests.