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05/09 15:41 CDT UCLA's Megan Grant sets NCAA softball record with 38th home run
this season
UCLA's Megan Grant sets NCAA softball record with 38th home run this season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) --- UCLA slugger Megan Grant set the single-season home
run record for Division I softball when she hit her 38th of the season on
Saturday.
Grant drove an 0-2 pitch from Nebraska's Jordy Frahm deep to left-center field
for a solo home run, giving UCLA a 2-0 lead in the third inning of the Big Ten
Championship Game. The senior broke the record she shared for one day with
Arizona's Laura Espinoza, who hit 37 home runs in 1995.
Grant had tied the record on Friday with a solo shot in the second inning of a
19-5 win over Wisconsin in a semifinal.
Nebraska defeated UCLA 7-2 on Saturday to win the conference championship.
Grant trailed Oklahoma's Kendall Wells by one homer heading into conference
tournament play. Wells did not homer in Oklahoma's loss to Georgia on Thursday
in the Southeastern Conference Tournament. Grant hit home runs in each of
UCLA's three Big Ten Tournament games.
Grant still has competition for the record, and the race to see who ends up
with it could last until the Women's College World Series. Wells has 36 and
Grant's teammate, Jordan Woolery, has 33.
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