UW Softball Weekly Round Up: Surviving and Advancing

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - JUNE 04: Head Coach Heather Tarr of the Washington Huskies exchanges lineups with Head Coach Lonni Alameda of the Florida State Seminoles during the Division I Women's Softball Championship held at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium - OGE Energy Field on June 4, 2018 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Photo by Shane Bevel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) | NCAA Photos via Getty Images Great teams, regardless of sport, find different ways to win. It doesn’t matter if it’s a close win decided by one singular swing of momentum or a blowout, decided long before the end of the game.

In the case of the Husky softball team, they got their 4 wins this week in a variety of ways, but at 30-6, with 20 straight wins, it looks like this team is on its way to joining that pantheon of great teams, in large part due to how they win. Before the big road series against Iowa, the Huskies had a quick road stop against Loyola Chicago. A Giselle Alvarez solo shot in the fifth got the scoring started, but the game really broke open when Kaycie Burdick hit her first career home run, a grand slam: First career home run and it's a GRAND SLAM for Kaycie Burdick!

💣 📺 @ESPNPlus pic. twitter. com/wDIq5nfRFf — Washington Softball (@UWSoftball) March 24, 2026 Another shot from Alvarez, and another homer from Burdick pushed the score to 7-0, where it would stay, giving the Huskies the win and extra momentum for another tough conference road trip against the Iowa Hawkeyes.

The first game would not start well, with the Dawgs falling behind 3-0 by the top of the third inning. Jade Bubke and Jaydn Glab responded with a solo home run, and 3 run home run respectively, pushing the Huskies in front 4-3. After Iowa’s Naiyln Marshall responded with a solo homer to tie the game at 4, the Huskies responded with a fierce 7 run 4th inning rally.