Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Riverside- The UC Riverside Softball Team is 35-15 overall with a 7-8 conference record after sweeping the UC Davis Aggies this weekend. The Highlanders snagged two wins Sunday afternoon, 5-2 and 5-3.

This is the first sweep for UCR since the 2012 season when it took three victories in a series against CSUN.

Starting on the mound for all three games was redshirt junior Chelsea Ponce. Ponce threw 9.2 innings today giving up just 10 hits and striking out six. For the weekend she struck out 15 batters over 22 innings, holding the opposition to a .256 batting average and garnered a 0.95 ERA.

Splitting time on the mound with Ponce was freshman Rebecca Faulkner who earned a win and two saves. She owns seven saves on the season to lead the Big West and ranking amongst the top-10 in the country.

In front of 490 fans, the largest single-season attendance record, the Highlanders came out swinging in game one smashing 11 hits. The blue and gold started out with three in the first inning to take an early 1-0 lead.

In the bottom of the third, after giving up a run in the top half of the inning, the Highlanders hammered out four more hits from Madeline Richard, Karina Romero, Kris DeAnda, and Chelsey Holley to bring around four more runs. The Aggies would not take the lead or even tie the rest of the game, scoring just one more run in the top of the seventh.

UCR kicked off game two with a bang as Faulkner blasted a three-runner homer into dead center field in the bottom of the first, answering the single run UC Davis scored in the top of the inning. The Highlanders maintained a lead the rest of the day pushing across runs in the third and sixth for a final, 5-3 score. Faulkner had two hits in game two bringing around four RBI.