TOLEDO, OH – Toledo (3-11) will venture to Hawaii for the first time in program history for its 2017 spring trip. The Midnight Blue & Gold will compete in two consecutive tournaments hosted by the University of Hawaii.
 
    UT will first take on Charleston Southern, Seattle and Hawaii in the Coca-Cola Malihini Kipa Aloha Tournament on March 3-5, and will finish its outing at the Hawaii Spring Fling Tournament on March 8-11. Competing in the Spring Fling will be 2016 NCAA Tournament team Utah, Charleston Southern, Marist and Hawaii. Toledo will also see the Rainbow Wahine in a doubleheader on March 7.
 
All games will be played at Hawaii's Rainbow Wahine Softball Stadium in Honolulu.
 
Live statistics will be available for all 13 games
 

SPRING TRIP SCHEDULE Malihini Kipa Aloha Tournament Friday, March 3 Charleston Southern vs. TOLEDO, 3:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. ET) Saturday, March 4 Seattle vs. TOLEDO, Noon (5:00 p.m. ET) TOLEDO at Hawaii, 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. ET) Sunday, March 5 GM1: Seed #2 vs. Seed #3, 10:00 a.m. (3:00 p.m. ET) GM2: Seed #1 vs. Seed #4, Noon (5:00 p.m. ET) Loser GM1 vs. Loser GM2, 2:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. ET) Winner GM1 vs. Winner GM2, 4:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. ET)

Tuesday, March 7 TOLEDO at Hawaii [DH], 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. ET) Hawaii Spring Fling Tournament Wednesday, March 8 Utah vs. TOLEDO, Noon (5:00 p.m. ET) Thursday, March 9 Charleston Southern vs. TOLEDO, 3:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. ET) Friday, March 10 Marist vs. TOLEDO, 3:30 p.m. (8:30 p.m. ET) TOLEDO at Hawaii, 6:00 p.m. (11:00 p.m. ET)   Saturday, March 10 Charleston Southern vs. TOLEDO, 10:00 a.m. (3:00 p.m. ET) Utah vs. TOLEDO, Noon (5:00 p.m. ET)

ROCKET LEADERS
    Senior 2B Chandler Rice is leading Toledo offensively with a .383 batting average and 18 hits through UT's 14 games. Rice has recorded 12 runs, three doubles, one triple, five home runs and 13 RBI. Freshman IF Samantha Golden paces UT with a .393 batting average, while sophomore IF Katie Cozy is hitting .324 with three doubles and three homers.
    Freshman Alissa Noble (1-3) tops the pitching staff with a 4.72 ERA, while sophomore Heather Webb (1-3) leads with 36 innings pitched and 24 strikeouts.
 
OPPONENT BREAKDOWN
    Charleston Southern (9-9) enters the tournament on a three-game winning streak and is hitting .274 as a team. Senior Stevi Johnson paces the Buccaneers with a .372 batting average after recording 16 hits, four doubles, one triple and a homer. Junior P Cheyenne Gandara holds a 3.59 ERA after 37 innings pitched.
    Hawaii (6-6) starts off 2017 in a 27-game homestand due to the six tournaments it hosts this season. UH went 2-3 in last week's Bank of Hawaii Invitational. The Rainbow Wahine is hitting .285 as a team, with Bree Soma pacing Hawaii with a .381 batting average. UH's starting pitcher, Brittany Hitchcock, has a 3.43 ERA after throwing 49 innings and recording 39 strikeouts.
    Marist (5-4) is coming off of a 3-2 record at the Black & Orange Challenge and is batting .308 as a team. Casey Page paces the Red Fox with an impressive .478 batting average. UT will face Marist in its second Hawaiian tournament. This weekend the Red Fox will play a pair of doubleheaders vs. UMBC and Coppin State in the UMBC Tournament.
    Seattle (3-11) currently holds a .259 team batting average after finishing last weekend's Libby Matson Tournament, 1-4. Pacing the Hornets offensively is Paige Bouska who is hitting .373. Seattle's Andie Larkins has recorded a 3.90 ERA in a team-high 46.2 innings pitched.
    Utah (11-2) is coming off a weekend at the Mary Nutter Classic where it finished with a 3-2 record. The Utes will travel to Hawaii after participating in the Red Desert Classic this week. Flippen and Barrera lead Utah with identical .486 batting averages. The Ute's three-athlete pitching staff collectively has a 0.69 ERA and 76 strikeouts.
 
ROCKETS VS. THE FIELD
    Toledo leads the all-time series with Charleston Southern, 5-1. CSU is the only team in the tournaments that Head Coach Kristen Butler has faced since at UT. Butler defeated Charleston Southern, 6-1, on Feb. 14, 2015 in the Charleston Southern Tournament.
    Hawaii has a 3-1 record against Toledo but hasn't played UT since Feb. 24, 1996 when the Rockets defeated the Rainbow Wahine, 6-2, at the UNLV Softball Classic.
    This will be the first-ever matchup between Toledo and Marist.
    Seattle beat Toledo, 4-2, in its only meeting on Feb. 16, 2014 at the UNLV Easton Desert Classic.
    Utah holds a 7-3 advantage over Toledo all-time. Most recently, Utah defeated UT, 8-3, at the UNLV Easton Desert Classic on Feb. 14, 2014.
 
LOOKING AHEAD
    UT will head back to the Midwest on March 17-19 for SIU Edwardsville's tournament where it will compete against Northern Kentucky, 2016 NCAA Tournament team Butler and host SIUE before wrapping up its 33-game non-conference slate with a doubleheader at Fort Wayne on March 22.