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Games #48 & 49
ART U Urban Knights (20-27, 14-16 PWC) vs. NDNU Argonauts (21-30, 7-17 PWC)
Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 12:00 & 2:00 PM
Brisbane, CA – Mission Blue Field
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ART U MEETS ONE OF ITS BAY AREA RIVALS ON SENIOR DAY
In the Urban Knights' final two games of the season, ART U will play host to Notre Dame de Namur this Saturday with a Senior Day celebration to open the day's action. Academy of Art University's 2012 Senior Class of outfielders Ashley Lokey and Melissa Coe, catcher Jayme Stewart, and infielder Genna Allen will all be honored prior to the first pitch.

**SPECIAL FAN BUS EVENT**
Be sure to sign up for the 1:00 PM Fan Bus to this Sunday's Senior Day doubleheader. If you are an Academy of Art University student, just click the following link, go to Softball, and ride to the games for free! Go HERE:




FIRST PITCH
ART U and NDNU complete their respective seasons against one another on Saturday, Apr. 28 with a new doubleheader start time of 12:00 PM out at Mission Blue Field in Brisbane, CA. Live Stats and Twitter updates will both be available (see above). Remember to check @UrbanKnightNews on Twitter for score updates and recaps. Also become a fan of the Knights on Facebook by 'Like'-ing the Urban Knights page.

KNIGHT WATCH
With one of the four team batting averages over .300 in the PacWest, Academy of Art is collectively hitting .306 and, as the top team in terms of stolen bases (74), the Urban Knights will fittingly end their season pairing up against the #2 team in that category, Notre Dame de Namur (70). Sophomore outfielder Elyse Cordova has supported ART U in each of those categories all season long and she has finally claimed sole possession of the top batting average in the conference at .445 on the year. Her 18 stolen bases rank second among PacWest individuals and she puts a season-best nine-game hitting streak on the line this Saturday. Ashley Lokey looks to put an exclamation point on an already incredible Urban Knight career in this season finale. After batting .394 (8th in PacWest), reaching base at a .484 rate (3rd in PacWest), and scoring 40 runs thus far (4th in PacWest), Lokey's name will be found atop the record books in those and several other offensive categories when her career concludes this weekend. At this point in time, she also offers 25 walks (2nd in PacWest), 17 stolen bases (4th in PacWest), a .632 slugging percentage (8th in PacWest), six home runs (10th in PacWest), and 32 RBIs (10th in PacWest). In the power department, Genna Allen ranks 3rd in the conference in home runs with 10 as well as a team-high 41 RBIs which are fifth most in the PacWest. With two more doubles against Cal Baptist, sophomore infielder Lauren Stover now has 16 for the season (3rd in PacWest) to go with her .366 batting average (11th in PacWest).

The weekend series versus Cal Baptist saw junior Kimberly Dauer (11-10) allow just four runs in 12.0 innings of work including 7.0 scoreless innings of relief on Saturday. Her ERA continued to drop to a season-low 2.72 (9th in PacWest) now that she has given up just 10 earned runs in her last 59.2 innings pitched. She remains one of the top pitchers in the conference, ranking 5th in innings pitched (144.0), 9th in wins (11), 6th in strikeouts (84), and 7th in complete games (15). Freshman Haily MacDonald (6-8) also pitched well in her first start this past weekend.  She surrendered just three earned runs on five hits while virtually matching her CBU counterpart in the opening innings. MacDonald's 4.53 ERA is 16th best in the PacWest.

NOTRE DAME NOTABLES
After turning a pair of wins against Academy of Art into a brief three-game win streak, Notre Dame de Namur would fall to Cal State East Bay once before going 0-4 in a series with Dixie State. Since that time, NDNU has split with San Francisco State, took one win out of four contests with Grand Canyon, and split with Humboldt State. With a 7-17 PacWest record, the Argonauts currently hold a slight edge over Chaminade for seventh in the conference standings. Janae Reyes leads the way for Notre Dame de Namur and is batting .360 on the season with a conference-best 21 doubles and 11 stolen bases to lead the team thus far. The Argos pitching tandem of Sammy McConvey (12-12, 1.93 ERA) and Hillary Ruddick (9-14, 3.80 ERA) were the stars of the previous ART U-NDNU doubleheader in early April. McConvey tossed a two-hit shutout after which Ruddick threw seven scoreless while allowing three hits, walking four, and striking out three. NDNU is scheduled to face Dominican on Friday before concluding its season against ART U on Saturday.

KNIGHTS COME CLOSE IN FIRST EVER MEETING WITH CAL BAPTIST
Up against the eventual 2012 PacWest Champion Cal Baptist this past weekend, Academy of Art refused to back down from the Lancers' powerful lineup and tough pitching, remaining close throughout the series (Apr. 20-21). In the Friday opener, ART U scored three runs off eight hits against the conference's strikeout leader Emma Holden, but a four-run swing for CBU in the middle innings spelled the difference. Despite the 8-3 loss, Kimberly Dauer nearly matched Holden, striking out seven Lancers in her 5.0 innings of work. The second contest was a pitchers' duel through the first three innings, and while Haily MacDonald surrendered just five hits, CBU's Tory Ferreira did one better by allowing four hits in her team's 4-0 win.

Out at Mission Blue Field to continue the series on Saturday, the Urban Knights went ahead 1-0 in the first inning on a Genna Allen RBI groundout and the teams were separated by a single run after the second inning. Cal Baptist would rally for four runs in the fourth to create a 6-1 victory margin though ART U would threaten by loading the bases twice in the later innings. In the series finale, an early 4-0 lead for the Lancers was cut down to 4-2 after a pair of rallies by Academy of Art. The Knights would bring the tying run to the plate in the seventh, but CBU managed to escape with the 4-2 win.