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The Elon Phoenix<\/a> pulled off a rare double when the baseball team\u2019s Aidan Stieglitz combined with two relievers for a no-hitter shortly after the softball team\u2019s Anna Dew pitched a perfect game.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s gems put the 7,000-student private school in North Carolina in the spotlight as stat geeks pored through record books to see if or when a school had ever had two pitching performances of such magnitude occur on the same day. No one has come up with the answer, though ESPN reported<\/a> it definitely hasn\u2019t happened in the past three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was primarily a pitcher in college myself, so I can appreciate the effort,\u201d said athletic director Jennifer Strawley, who played softball at Penn in the 1990s. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen every day that you see a perfect game or a no-hitter and to have both on the same day. You also recognize it\u2019s a total team effort and to get to that place, there are plays made behind them that led to the pitchers being able to enjoy that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dew struck out six and threw just 79 pitches in an 8-0 win over Charleston Southern that ended after six innings because of the run rule. Dew\u2019s perfect game was Elon\u2019s first since 2022 and the season highlight for a team out to a 4-14 start after winning the Coastal Athletic Association Tournament and qualifying for an NCAA regional last season.<\/p>\n

Stieglitz, a freshman making his first start, carried a perfect game into the eighth inning in a 3-0 win over Fairfield. He issued a two-out walk for Fairfield\u2019s only baserunner. Mike Staiano got the final out of the eighth and RJ Latkowski pitched a clean ninth to finish Elon\u2019s first no-hitter since 2017.<\/p>\n

Strawley said she is on hand for most baseball and softball games but was out of town with the men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams. She said she watched the perfect game and no-hitter on her phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a really special moment for the student-athletes, for our coaches and our institution as a whole to have something like two unbelievable performances in the same day lead to a little bit of publicity for us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In the polls<\/p>\n

UCLA (9-2), LSU (11-1) and Texas (11-0) remain the top three teams in the D1Baseball.com<\/a> rankings. UCLA and LSU are the top two by Baseball America<\/a> with Mississippi State (11-1) third.<\/p>\n

The Bruins dropped a midweek game to San Diego State before turning in the best weekend nationally by beating three ranked opponents from the Southeastern Conference in Arlington, Texas. They were dominant in wins of 12-5 over Tennessee and 11-1 over Texas A&M before edging Mississippi State 8-7 in 10 innings.<\/p>\n

LSU beat Dartmouth twice and Northeastern once, all at home. Texas knocked off Coastal Carolina, Baylor and Ohio State, all in Houston, and are among three unbeaten teams with New Mexico (12-0) and Southern California (11-0).<\/p>\n

Epic showdown<\/p>\n

UCLA\u2019s win over Mississippi State on Sunday could go down as the best game of the regular season. <\/p>\n

The highly anticipated matchup more than lived up to its billing. Roch Cholowsky\u2019s two-run, two-out homer in the ninth inning tied it 5-all and pinch-hitter Aidan Espinoza\u2019s two-run triple was the key hit in the 10th. Easton Hawk was nails in relief, working out of a bases-loaded situation with one out in the ninth and retiring three of the last four batters in the 10th after Reed Stallman\u2019s homer made it a one-run game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn instant classic,\u201d UCLA coach John Savage said, according to D1Baseball. \u201cThey\u2019re really good, and we were up, and then we were down, and it looked like down to the last out, then you\u2019ve got your shortstop (Cholowsky) doing some remarkable things, man. I mean, I don\u2019t know what to say. I\u2019ve seen it before, but that one was pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleanup spot<\/p>\n

Florida won 7-2 and 8-4 at in-state rival Miami to continue its dominance in the series. The third game was canceled because of inclement weather Sunday. The Gators have won five straight series and 11 of the last 12 against Miami, including six in a row in Coral Gables since 2014. … Georgia Tech\u2019s Ryan Zuckerman has four home runs, three coming in Sunday\u2019s 14-6 win over Northwestern. Kollin Ritchie went deep three times for Oklahoma State in a 20-0 rout of Sam Houston State on Saturday. … Arkansas State\u2019s 12-4 win over Arkansas last Tuesday marked the Red Wolves\u2019 first win in seven games against the Razorbacks since 1947. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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