GAME NOTES: The Snow College softball team will travel up I-15 to take on in-state rival No. 21 Salt Lake Community College Friday and Saturday. First pitch will be thrown at 1:00 p.m. Friday, with Saturday's pair of games slated to start at 12:00 p.m.
The Badgers are coming off their home opener against No. 22 College of Southern Idaho, which saw the Badgers take one of the four games in the set, winning game two in walk-off fashion off a
Gigi Hall sacrifice fly to left field.
Brooke Fisher led the Badgers over the weekend, going 7-12 from the plate with two home runs. She is hitting (.457/.474/.972) on the season with a team-leading 31 hits, nine home runs, and 26 RBIs.
Three Badgers are hitting over .400 to begin the season, with the aforementioned Fisher leading the way, followed by Hall and
Grace Thomas, both batting .424. Thomas enters the weekend riding a 10-game on-base streak, while Hall has successfully swiped every bag she has attempted at 10.
The Badgers have had 10 or more hits in four of their conference games so far this season. They are 2-2 in those games and are 7-3 overall on the year. Under Head Coach
Mikelle Magalogo, the Badgers are 62-11 when they outhit their opponents.
SLCC holds a record of 13-7 on the season and sits at the top of the Scenic West Athletic Conference with a 6-2 conference mark.
The Badgers are 11-116 all-time against the Bruins with a 6-54 record in Taylorsville. The Badgers are 1-9 in their last 10 meetings against the Bruins, with the win coming last year, 5-4, in Ephraim.
LAST TIME OUT: The Snow College softball team saw its first home action of the 2026 season against No. 22 College of Southern Idaho last weekend, where the Badgers took game two of the four-game set in walk-off fashion, 6-5.
The Badgers are coming off their conference opener against North Idaho College, where they took games one and four of the four-game set, 14-8 and 9-4.
CSI opened game one, getting on the board early with three runs in the top of the first inning, and added four in the top of the second. The Badgers struggled for the majority of game one, accumulating just one hit and three walks. CSI would close the game with a pair of runs in the fifth for the 8-0 victory after five innings.
Game two saw CSI get on board first in the top of the third inning, before
Chloe Tycksen drove in the Badgers' first run of the series on a single down the left field line in the bottom of the fifth. The Badgers piled on the scoring in the bottom of the sixth as
Taimane Laolagi-Aloy hit a lead-off home run to left field before
Brooke Fisher hit her own three-run homer to center field.
CSI responded in the top of the seventh, stringing together four runs to tie the game at five heading into the final frame. In the bottom of the seventh,
Grace Thomas had a lead-off single to shallow left field.
She advanced to second on a
Loreal Gonzalez sacrifice bunt down the third base line, and a throwing error by the third baseman allowed her to reach third. Laolagi-Aloy walked, and
Gigi Hall would secure the win with a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Thomas, winning the game 6-5.
The Golden Eagles got out to an early lead in game three as they put up five runs in the first inning. The Badgers answered with a two-run homer from Gonzalez in the bottom of the first. CSI then outscored the Badgers 15-1 over the remainder of the game for the 20-3 win after five.
The final game of the four-game set followed a similar pattern to the previous games as CSI got a run on the board in the first inning. Fisher would get the Badgers on the board with a solo shot to left field in the bottom of the first.
CSI outpaced the Badgers with five runs in the top of the second before the Badgers scored two in the bottom of the inning off a Fisher double and a Tycksen single. CSI extended its lead to eight by the end of the third and added a run in the top of the fourth.
The Badgers tallied two of their own in the bottom of the fourth and fifth innings on a Tycksen single to center field that scored
Madison Salisbury and a Laolagi-Aloy sacrifice fly to center that scored Clair Yates. CSI closed the game in the sixth inning with three more runs, keeping the Badgers off the board for the 15-5 win.
Fisher led the Badgers offensively, going 7-12 from the plate with two home runs and five RBIs. Tycksen followed closely behind, going .500 from the dish (6-12) with four RBIs.
UP NEXT: Snow College will have a week of rest before it hits the road against Utah State University Eastern April 3 and 4 for a four-game set. Game one is set to start at 1:00 p.m., with day two's action set to begin at 12:00 p.m. For video streaming and live stat information, visit snowbadgers.com.