COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – For the second consecutive week, No. 25/23 San Diego State softball has the Mountain West Pitcher of the Week, the league announced Monday. Dee Dee Hernandez earned the award this week after helping the Aztecs to a 4-1 record in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic.
San Diego State (12-3) had a good weekend. After falling 7-2 to No. 19/19 Oregon on Friday, the Aztecs bounced back and played well the rest of the weekend. SDSU defeated UC Santa Barbara 4-0 and UC Riverside 4-1 on Saturday before taking down Saint Mary’s 6-5 and Hawai’i 8-0 in five innings on Sunday.
Hernandez pitched in three games, all wins for the Aztecs. Against UC Santa Barbara, she pitched a complete game shutout, the first complete game of her career, going seven innings and allowing just two singles and one walk and no runs while earning the win. Facing the Gaels on Sunday, Hernandez came in to pitch the seventh and worked around a single to earn the save. In the second game of the day against Hawai’i, she was two outs from a no hitter, pitching a five-inning complete game shutout in a run-rule victory. She allowed just a pair of singles while striking out three hitters.
San Diego State hosts California Baptist at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at SDSU Softball Stadium. Next weekend, the Aztecs return to Fullerton, California, where they went 1-1 on the opening weekend of the season. In this weekend’s Judi Garman Classic, SDSU will play Weber State at noon and Notre Dame at 2:30 on Friday. The Aztecs will face the Utah Utes at 5 p.m. on Saturday and Arizona at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning before an 11:45 a.m. clash with host Cal State Fullerton that will be broadcast on ESPN+.