Arizona entered Saturday afternoon averaging 1.3 home runs per game. That average went up considerably after a pair of games paced by the long ball.
The Wildcats hit seven homers in sweeping a doubleheader during the Bear Down Fiesta, beating UNLV 7-2 and then Marist 11-0 in five innings. Four of those homers were by three players who had never before hit one in college, or with Arizona.
In the first game against UNLV, Arizona got homers from a pair of unlikely sources in Bailey Thompson and Giulia Koutsoyanopu. Thompson, a Tucson-area native and graduate transfer from Seattle, hit a 3-run shot for her first homer with the Wildcats as part of a 4-run 1st, then in the sixth Koutsoyanopu—who was 3 for 3 from the No.