Wichita State (28-15, 15-6) at North Texas (27-21, 14-7)
Denton, Texas | Lovelace Stadium
Friday, April 24 | 6:00 PM CT
Saturday, April 25 | 2:00 PM CT
Sunday, April 26 | 12:00 PM CT
TV: ESPN+
Stats: StatBroadcast.com
 

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QUICK HITS
• Wichita State takes its 9-game win streak to North Texas for its final road series of the season.
• With two weeks remaining in the regular season, Wichita State is in a tie for 1st in the American Conference standings with South Florida at 15-6. North Texas sits a game behind at 14-7 with the Shockers making the trip to Denton this weekend for a pivotal series.
• Wichita State is 9-1 over its last 10 games.
• Ausha Moore tied the WSU single game school record with 3 HR and set a new school record with 9 RBIs in the final game of the series at Charlotte on April 19.
• Moore ranks 1st in the American in home runs (18), RBI (48), slugging percentage (.912) and on base percentage (.572).
• Moore is a 3-time American Player of the Week, earning the weekly honor on March 2, March 23 and April 20.
• Woody has 12 home runs this season. Her first 4 career home runs completed the home run cycle, hitting a solo HR, 2-R HR, 3-R HR and a grand slam. Her first career HR was a walk-off grand slam.
• In conference games, Woody leads the league with a .470 batting average, while tied for 1st in home runs with 10 and RBI with 27.
• Woody was named to the NFCA Freshman of the Year Top 25 list on April 23. She won American Conference Player of the Week honors on April 13 after hitting .500 with 2 HR and 7 RBIs.
• Kammie Smith is on a season-long 12-game hit streak. She is 20-for-41 over her last 12 games with a home run, a triple, 4 doubles and 11 RBIs.
• Jade Sanders threw the program's 22nd no-hitter in the 8-0 run-rule win over Creighton on Feb. 21. It was the first no-hitter since Chloe Barber's 5-inning no-no on May 5, 2024.
• Wichita State ranks 19th nationally in home runs per game (1.60) and 20th in total home runs (69).
• Wichita State was picked to finish 3rd in the 2026 American Conference Preseason Coaches Poll.
• Wichita State welcomes 14 newcomers into the fold in the way of seven transfers, two junior college transfers and five freshmen.

SCOUTING NORTH TEXAS
North Texas enters the weekend one game back of first place leaders South Florida and Wichita State at 14-7. Following a midweek win vs. Tarleton State, North Texas is 27-21 overall this season under first year head coach Cody White. The Mean Green boast a lethal 1-2 punch in Elizabeth Moffitt and Madison Conley. Moffitt hits a team-high .432 with 9 doubles, 12 home runs and 44 RBIs. Conley leads the team in doubles (14) and home runs (15), while ranking second in batting average (.397) and RBIs (43). The duo accounts for 27 of the team's 48 home runs. In the circle, North Texas relies on two pitchers, Anneca Anderson and Britney Lewinski. They have combined to throw 270.1 of the team's 305.2 innings. Anderson is 12-6 with a 4.45 ERA in 135.1 innings. She's tossed 9 complete games and has 96 strikeouts to 72 walks. Lewinski is 14-10 with 11 complete games, a 4.46 ERA, 88 strikeouts and 65 walks in 135.0 innings.

CONNECTIONS
Wichita State has a pair of former Mean Green sporting the Black & Yellow in Jodie Epperson and Ausha Moore. Epperson, a senior, is in her second season with the Shockers, while Moore, a sophomore, is in her first season with Wichita State.

SERIES HISTORY
This weekend's series will be the third trip to Denton in the last four years. The last time Wichita State traveled to North Texas, the Mean Green won 2-of-3. Both wins were by a combined two runs. The Shockers won the first 10 meetings in the series before North Texas won six of the next seven.

LAST MEETING VS. THE MEAN GREEN
After Wichita State took 2-of-3 vs. North Texas during the regular season in 2025, the Mean Green had the last laugh in the quarterfinals of the American Athletic Conference Championship. North Texas scored 6 runs in the first inning and went on to win 8-4, eliminating the Shockers and ending their season. Current Shocker Ausha Moore played a large part in the victory for North Texas. As a freshman for the Mean Green, Moore homered and drove in 4 of the team's 8 runs. Wichita State slowly chipped away, cutting the deficit to 6-4 entering the bottom of the 5th, but North Texas added a pair of insurance runs to halt the Shockers' comeback bid.

LAST TIME OUT
Wichita State is coming off a second straight conference series sweep, taking down Charlotte on the road in dominant fashion. The Shockers won all three games by six or more runs (10-3, 9-3 and 14-4). Wichita State outscored the Niners, 33-10. In the opener, Wichita State scored six runs in the top of the 1st and cruised to a 10-3 victory. Ausha Moore hit the first of five home runs on the weekend with 3 RBIs. Aeryn Shuman and Gabby Scott had a hit and 2 RBIs apiece, while Ryley Nihart allowed only one earned run in the complete game win. In Game 2, Wichita State again opened with a big first inning, scoring four runs. Kinzey Woody homered twice and drove in four runs. Johnna Schroeder hit a two-run home run and Moore homered again. The final game was one for the record books for Moore. The sophomore homered twice in the first inning, as Wichita State scored 9 runs in the top of the 1st. For the game, Moore went 3-for-3 with 3 home runs and a school record 9 RBIs. The Shockers finished off the sweep in run-rule fashion.

NATIONAL FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR TOP 25
Kinzey Woody was named to the NFCA National Freshman of the Year Top 25 on April 23. The Missouri native is hitting .344 with 10 doubles, 12 home runs and 41 RBIs. She's the just the second Shocker to ever be named to the NFCA Freshman of the Year Top 25 list and first since Addison Barnard in 2021.

MOORE POWER
Ausha Moore is not only on a 6-game hitting streak, she's homered in 5 of those 6 games. Over her last 6 games, she's hitting .571 (8-for-14) with 7 HR, 11 runs scored, 17 RBIs and 10 walks. In the series vs. Charlotte, Moore homered 5 times in the series with 13 RBIs. Her big weekend in the Queen City earned her American Conference Player of the Week honors. She has earned POW honors three times this season.

QUEEN AUSHA
Ausha Moore put her name in the Wichita State record books in the series finale at Charlotte on April 19. The Del City, Okla., native tied the single game school record with 3 home runs, while breaking the single game record for RBIs with 9. She started the game with 2 home runs in the Top of the 1st - a 2-run homer and a grand slam.

THE SHUMAN SHOW
Since being inserted into the starting lineup in the final two games of the UTSA series on April 11, sophomore Aeryn Shuman has made the most of her opportunities. Shuman has started the last six games at catcher and is batting .421 (8-for-19) with a double, a home run, 5 runs scored and 5 RBIs. Prior to UTSA series, Shuman had appeared in only six games all season and was 0-for-4 at the plate.

BRINGING THE WOOD(Y)
Kinzey Woody is coming off a scorching weekend series vs. Florida Atlantic. Woody was 8-for-10 with two home runs and three RBIs. She had a hit in eight straight at bats over the three games, going 3-for-3 in Game 1 and 4-for-4 in Game 2. After her stellar week, D1 Softball named Woody the Mid-Major Freshman of the Week. Through 21 conference games, Woody is hitting a team-high .470 (31-for-66) with 6 doubles, 10 home runs, 13 walks, 15 runs scored and 27 RBIs.

HOME RUN CYCLE
Kinzey Woody has 12 home runs so far in her freshman season. The first 4 home runs of her career completed the home run cycle - hitting a walk-off grand slam for her first career home run on Feb. 21 vs. Creighton, a 3-run home run on March 13 vs. UAB, a 2-run home run on March 14 vs. UAB and finally a solo home run vs. FAU on March 20. Not a bad way to start your collegiate career.

RPI - WEEK EIGHT
Wichita State checked in at No. 54 in the eighth week of RPI rankings on April 20. The Shockers have already faced 13 teams in the Top 75, including No. 2 Arkansas, No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 18 Mississippi State, No. 19 Oklahoma State, No. 22 Clemson, No. 31 Texas State, No. 36 South Florida (three times), No. 43 Baylor, No. 46 Missouri, No. 48 Kansas, No. 55 Florida Atlantic (three times), No. 60 Charlotte (three times) and No. 71 Miami (OH).  The Shockers still have a game against No. 48 Kansas.