#ProHogs

As of June 13, 2025

#ProHogs in the AUSL
Bri Ellis – Talons
Danielle Gibson Whorton – Blaze
Mariah Lopez – Talons

#ProHogs in the Pro Fastpitch Series
Courtney Day – New York Rise
Chenise Delce – New York Rise

Years at Arkansas: 2024-25

Ellis starred at Arkansas from 2024-25 after spending the first two seasons of her collegiate career at Auburn. Over the course of her collegiate career, she appeared in 231 total games and compiled a .332 career batting average, hitting 74 home runs and driving in 215 runs. She finished her career with 194 hits, including 32 doubles and one triple. A standout defender, Ellis recorded a .989 career fielding percentage. She was a three-time All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection, earning First-Team honors in both her junior and senior seasons.  At Arkansas, she was selected to the SEC All-Defensive Team in both seasons. She finished her collegiate career as the NCAA Active Career Leader in home runs (74) while ranking fourth in RBI (215) and seventh in total bases (449). Her 229 consecutive starts were the most nationally among active players at the conclusion of the 2025 season.

Ellis capped her collegiate career with several major honors in 2025, including SEC Player of the Year and USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. She was also named Division I Player of the Year by both D1Softball and Softball America. Additionally, she was a consensus First-Team All-American, receiving recognition from Softball America, D1Softball, and the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA). She was named to the NFCA First-Team All-Central Region after hitting a career-best .440 during her senior year, leading Arkansas to the NCAA Super Regionals. Her senior season also included career highs in hits (59), doubles (9), home runs (26), and runs batted in (72). She tied the SEC single-season home run record in 2025 while setting single-season Arkansas records in homers (26), runs scored (68), RBI (72), slugging percentage (1.090) and on-base percentage (.639). Ellis was just the sixth player in NCAA history to post a regular season batting average above .480 and hit 20+ home runs, courtesy of a .487 batting average and 25 home runs

As a junior in 2024, Ellis earned NFCA Second-Team All-America honors after batting .322 with 48 hits, including seven doubles and 14 home runs. She led Arkansas with 47 RBI, 36 runs scored and 97 total bases while posting a .651 slugging percentage and a .444 on-base percentage. That season, she posted 11 multi-hit games and had a three-hit performance against South Alabama on March 9. She also had a nine-game hitting streak from March 3 to March 18.

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Years at Arkansas: 2019-2022

Gibson Whorton was a four-year letter winner at Arkansas after spending her freshman season at Arizona State. She appeared in a total of 248 games, including 189 at Arkansas, and had a career batting average of .366 with 60 home runs and 220 runs batted in. Gibson finished her Arkansas career as the Razorbacks’ career leader with 180 runs batted in. She belted 10 or more home runs in four of her five seasons, including a career-best 20 home runs as a redshirt senior. Gibson led the Razorbacks to back-to-back Southeastern Conference titles in 2021 and 2022. She earned First-Team NFCA All-America honors in 2022 after claiming Second-Team distinction in 2021. Gibson was also a member of the 2022 All-SEC First Team and a Top-10 finalist for the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award. She was a Second-Team CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree in 2022 and a two-time SEC All-Defensive Team pick. Gibson was a 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year nominee.

She led the Razorbacks in batting average (.445), hits (81), doubles (14), home runs (20), and runs batted in (70) during the 2022 campaign. Gibson led the SEC in runs batted in and total bases while ranking second in hits. She was also one of five players in the circuit to hit 20 or more home runs. As a redshirt junior, Gibson posted a .355 batting average and claimed a spot on the All-SEC Second Team. She started all 25 games during the COVID-19 shortened season and hit .295 with 23 hits and 14 RBI. Gibson garnered NFCA All-Region Third Team distinction as a sophomore. She became the second NCAA Division I softball player to hit for the home run cycle, including the first player to do it in a four-inning span, when she blasted four home runs against SIU-Edwardsville on February 23, 2019. Gibson also became the sixth player in NCAA Division I softball history to hit four home runs in a single game. She finished her sophomore season as the Razorbacks’ leader with a .640 slugging percentage, 12 home runs, and 110 total bases.

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Years at Arkansas: 2024-Present (Graduate Assistant)

Mariah Lopez joined the Arkansas Razorbacks as a graduate assistant in August 2024, following a standout collegiate playing career.

Lopez earned NFCA All-America and All-PAC 12 honors while pitching at Utah (2021-24), helping lead the Utes to a College World Series appearance in 2023.

During her four years in Salt Lake City, Lopez collected a list of accolades too numerous to mention, including putting together a 2023 campaign in which she finished in the top three in the Pac-12 with 23 wins and 206 strikeouts, was named first-team all-conference and all-region, won the Pac-12 Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player award and earned a spot on the NFCA All-American Third-Team.

Lopez followed up her spectacular 2023 season with a senior year worthy of First-Team All-Pac-12 and First-Team All-Pacific Region honors. Her 22 victories tied for the league lead, her 203 strikeouts placed her second in the conference, and she racked up more innings pitched and complete games than anybody in the Pac-12. The Arizona native became the first Ute to win 20 games in back-to-back seasons in over a decade and finished third in school history in career strikeouts with 582.

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Years at Arkansas: 2025

Day made a lasting impact during her lone season as a Razorback in 2025, leading the Hogs to their first Super Regional appearance since 2022. As a senior, the Pearland, Texas product batted .329 with 47 hits, 12 doubles, a triple, 16 home runs and 68 RBI while posting a .762 slugging percentage and a .476 on-base percentage. Her 68 RBI were tied for third in the Arkansas single-season record books. She registered 20 multi-RBI games and 12 multi-hit games while finishing her collegiate career on a career-best 21-game reached-base streak and a five-game hitting streak. Day ranked 11th nationally and third in the SEC in RBI per game (1.26).

Prior to Arkansas, Day sat out the 2023-24 season and served as the head softball coach at Tarkington High School in Cleveland, Texas, where she led the team to a 15-13-1 mark, according to MaxPreps, and an appearance in the Texas 4A State Playoffs. The 15-13-1 record was tied for the best by a Tarkington team since at least 2006.

Day started her career at Texas (2020-23), where she posted a .317 batting average and .395 on-base percentage with 120 hits, 22 doubles, two triples, 26 home runs, 63 runs scored, 44 walks and 91 RBI through 176 games played. She registered 23 multi-hit games and 24 multi-RBI games as a Longhorn and was named to the Women’s College World Series All-Tournament Team in 2022.

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Years at Arkansas: 2022-2023

In two seasons at Arkansas, Delce held a 40-14 record with 381 strikeouts while posting a 2.07 ERA in 332.0 innings pitched. Delce was named SEC Pitcher of the Year in 2022 after posting a 19-3 record to go along with a 2.12 ERA and 188 strikeouts in 152.1 innings pitched. In addition to being named SEC Pitcher of the Year, Delce was a two-time First-Team All-SEC selection (2022-23), two-time NFCA First-Team All-Region selection (2022-23), SEC Tournament MVP (2022), Second-Team NFCA All-American (2022) and a three-time SEC Pitcher of the Week (2023).

Prior to transferring to Arkansas, Delce spent the first three years of her collegiate career at Tulsa (2019-21), where she posted a 2.12 ERA with 279 strikeouts in 293.2 innings pitched while owning a 29-15 record. Delce was a two-time all-conference selection at Tulsa (2019-2021) and a two-time NFCA All-Central Region Second-Team honoree.

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AUSL #ProHogs Games Only

Date	Time (CT)	Matchup	TV / Results
June 7	2 p.m.	Talons vs. Bandits	Bandits 3, Talons 1
June 7	6:30 p.m.	Volts vs. Blaze	Volts 5, Blaze 1
June 8	1 p.m.	Talons vs. Bandits	Talons 6, Bandits 3
June 8	4 p.m.	Volts vs. Blaze	Volts 10, Blaze 3
June 9	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Blaze	Blaze 3, Volts 1
June 10	7 p.m.	Talons vs. Bandits	Bandits 8, Talons 0
June 14	11 a.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	Talons 14, Bandits 12
June 14	3:45 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	Talons 7, Blaze 6
June 15	1 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	Talons 10, Blaze 8
June 18	8:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	Volts 6, Blaze 1
June 18	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Talons	Talons 5, Bandits 4
June 19	Noon	Bandits vs. Talons	Bandits 8, Talons 4
June 19	2:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	Volts 9, Blaze 2
June 20	7:30 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	Talons 3, Volts 2
June 20	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	Bandits 11, Blaze 2
June 21	4 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	Talons 4, Volts 0
June 21	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	Bandits 11, Blaze 3
June 22	4 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	Bandits 9, Blaze 7
June 22	6 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	Talons 8, Volts 3
June 23	5:30 p.m.	Bandits vs. Blaze	Blaze 11, Bandits 3
June 23	7:30 p.m.	Talons vs. Volts	Talons 8, Volts 6
July 7	8:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Talons	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 8	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 8	3:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 9	10:30 a.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 9	1 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 11	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 11	9 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 12	6 p.m.	Bandits vs. Talons	MLB Network
July 12	8 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 13	3 p.m.	Blaze vs. Volts	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 13	Noon	Bandits vs. Talons	ESPN2
July 16	6 p.m.	Blaze vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 17	8:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Talons	MLB Network
July 18	8 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 19	5 p.m.	Talons vs. Blaze	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 22	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 22	7:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 23	6 p.m.	Volts vs. Talons	ESPNU
July 23	7:30 p.m.	Blaze vs. Bandits	MLB.com/MLB.TV
July 26	TBA	Championship Series	ESPN2
July 27	TBA	Championship Series	ESPN2
July 28	TBA	Championship Series	ESPN2

Pro Fastpitch Series #ProHogs Games Only

Date	Time (CT)	Opponent	TV / Result
June 11	7:30 p.m.	KC Diamonds	Rise 11, Diamonds 0
June 12	5 p.m.	Florida Vibe	Rise 4, Vibe 0
June 12	7:30 p.m.	KC Diamonds	Rise 9, Diamonds 0
June 13	5 p.m.	Florida Vibe	Vibe 11, Rise 10
June 15	7 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark	Spark 2, Rise 1
June 16	7 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark	Spark 9, Rise 0
June 17	7 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark	Spark 7, Rise 6
June 18	7 p.m	Oklahoma City Spark	Spark 12, Rise 4
June 20	5:30 p.m.	Florida Vibe	Vibe 12, Rise 3
June 21	5:30 p.m.	Florida Vibe	Rise 8, Vibe 1
June 22	11 a.m.	Florida Vibe	Vibe 4, Rise 3
July 23	5 p.m.	Orlando Monarchs	Rise 6, Monarchs 3
June 26	6 p.m.	Atlanta Smoke	Rise 8, Smoke 7
June 27	6 p.m.	Atlanta Smoke	Pluto TV
June 28	6 p.m.	Atlanta Smoke	Pluto TV
June 30	2 p.m.	TC Colorado
July 1	10 a.m.	Florida Vibe
July 2	2 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark
July 3	TBD	TBD
July 4	7 p.m.	Atlanta Smoke
July 5	7 p.m.	Atlanta Smoke
July 6	7 p.m.	Atlanta Smoke
July 8	6 p.m.	Florida Vibe
July 9	6 p.m.	Florida Vibe
July 15	6 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark
July 16	6 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark
July 17	6 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark
July 18	6 p.m.	Oklahoma City Spark
July 21	6 p.m.	Orlando Monarchs
July 22	6 p.m.	Orlando Monarchs
July 23	6 p.m.	Orlando Monarchs