• Winners of four of the last five games, Sacramento State (7-7) will co-host this week's Capital Classic with UC Davis. The tournament is a round robin that features six teams (Hornets, UC Davis, Alabama State, Siena, Saint Mary's, Southern Utah) playing over four days.
• Sacramento State will host seven games, including one on Thursday, three on Friday, and three on Saturday. The Hornets will also play at UC Davis on Sunday.
• Of the seven games at Shea Stadium, Sacramento State will play in four of them. That includes Thursday at 3 p.m. vs Siena, Friday at 12:30 p.m. (vs Southern Utah) and 3:00 p.m. (vs Saint Mary's), and Saturday vs. Alabama State at 12:30 p.m. The Hornets will play their fifth and final tournament game on Sunday at 3 p.m. at UC Davis.
• All Sacramento State games at Shea Stadium will be streamed on ESPN+. The non-Sacramento State games will not have a video stream.
• The Hornets completed last week's Silicon Valley Classic with a 4-1 record, and have now won five of their last seven after beginning the season with a 2-5 record.
• Sacramento State swept this week's Big Sky Player/Pitcher of the Week awards. Third baseman Lewa Day received the player accolade for the fourth time of her career, and right-hander Marissa Bertuccio received the pitching honor for the 10th time in her career.
• Beginning its fourth week of the season, Sacramento State has already encountered multiple injuries. That includes Lexie Webb, who hit 16 home runs a year ago, going down in the third game of the season. She will miss the remainder of the year. Milan Machado-Buckley, who is batting .333 with a .391 on-base percentage, did not play last week and is out indefinitely. Catcher Amber Rodriguez has been limited to one pinch hitting appearance over the last five games while dealing with an injury.
• The Hornets trailed at one point during each of their four wins last week. In fact, of the team's seven wins, five have been of the comeback variety. Of those five comebacks, Sacramento State trailed in the fifth inning or later in four of them.
• Lewa Day brings a five-game hitting streak into the week. During the streak, she is batting .526 (10-for-19) with five runs, three doubles, a triple, homer, nine RBIs, a .947 slugging percentage and 1.497 ops. She has also collected at least one RBI in five consecutive games.
• Marissa Bertuccio leads the Big Sky in ERA (2.57) and opponent batting average (.252). In 43.2 innings, she has a 4.3-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio (30 strikeouts, 7 walks). Bertuccio is the reigning Big Sky Pitcher of the Year.
• Seventeen different position players have started games for the Hornets this year, and only three (Carley Morfey, Lewa Day, Gwen Ludwig) have started all 14 games.
• However, the Hornet lineup is beginning to take on a more consistent shape as six players have started at the same positions each of the last five games - Jada Walker (CF), Alexis Parish (LF), Carley Morfey (RF), Lewa Day (3B), Nikki Barboza (SS) and Gwen Ludwig (2B).
• True freshman catcher Katie Marsh went 4-for-4 with two runs, a double, triple and two RBIs in Sunday's win at Santa Clara. The four hits tied a Sacramento State Div. I era (1990-pres.) record for most hits in a game. It marked the 33rd time a Hornet has connected for four hits during the Div. I era, and no player has yet to achieve the five-hit milestone.
• The Hornets are batting .254 as a team, but have upped that mark to .364 (36-for-99) with runners in scoring position. Of the team's 53 RBIs, 24 have come with two outs in an inning.
• Sacramento State will be hosting its second tournament of the season as the team went 2-3 at the season-opening NorCal Kickoff. Dating back to last season, the Hornets are 17-9 at home.
• The Hornets hold an advantage over the opposition in just one inning this season - 6-0 in the 8th. They are tied at 15-15 in the fifth, the most runs the Hornets have scored in any inning.
• The Hornets were co-favorites (along with Weber State) in the Big Sky preseason coaches poll.