No. 24 Owls Sweep Golden Hurricane to End Regular Season

TULSA, Okla. – The No. 24 Florida Atlantic softball team recorded their second straight shutout, concluding the 2025 regular season with a 6-0 victory over Tulsa on Sunday.
 
In their 10th consecutive win, the back-to-back American Athletic Conference regular season champion Owls (44-9, 23-4) recorded their fifth conference series sweep of the 2025 campaign.
 
Junior Autumn Courtney pitched 4.2 innings and earned the win to move a league-best 23-2 on the season after allowing just four hits while striking out six Golden Hurricane (20-32, 8-19) batters. She then made way for the nation’s top closer in senior Ainsley Lambert, who picked up her 11th save.
 

For the ninth straight game, redshirt sophomore outfielder Kylie Hammonds reached base in the Owls’ first at-bat, this time from a single. FAU batters tallied two more hits, culminating in an RBI from junior third baseman Jesiana Mora.
 
After a scoreless second, junior catcher Chloe Yeatts put the Owls on the scoreboard again in the third with a hit to right field to score freshman second baseman Destiny Johns.
 

Mora drove in her second run of the afternoon in the top of the fourth inning for a 3-0 lead.
 
Checking in as a pinch hitter, sophomore Corin Dammeier recorded a walk to load the bases in the top of the fifth, but FAU could not bring home a runner to build on the advantage.
 

With one runner on base and two outs in the bottom of the fifth, Lambert entered to finish the job. Yeatts threw out the attempted steal to retire the side.
 
Johns logged her fourth hit of the day in the top of the sixth. Following a walk by Mora, Yeatts brought home both on the double to left. Sophomore Kiley Shelton then logged an RBI single to improve the score to 6-0. 
 
Lambert retired the final Golden Hurricane batters, not allowing a baserunner in her 2.1 innings of work.
 

• Florida Atlantic finished a perfect 12-0 on the road in AAC play.
• The Owls’ 44 wins in the regular season is the most by the team since 2016. 
• Florida Atlantic had the most series sweeps among all AAC teams and won eight out of nine series in league play.
• This marks the Owls’ second 10+ game winning streak of the season.
• Yeatts’ 3 RBI puts her at 51 this season, most by a Florida Atlantic batter since the program’s first season in 1995.
• Hammonds has reached base in 22 consecutive games and 49 out of 53 appearances in 2025.
• Mora’s hitting streak is up to 13 games, most by an Owl this season.
• Johns went 4-for-5 at the plate to become the third FAU player to tally four hits in 2025.
• Lambert’s 11 saves leads Division I.
• The Owls totaled 39 hits over the three games against Tulsa, their most in a three-game series on the season.

As the No. 1 seed, the Owls will have a double bye in the upcoming AAC Tournament in Tampa, Florida. They will next take the field in the semifinals on Friday, May 9 at 1 p.m. on ESPNU.
 
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