ALBANY, N.Y. - The UAlbany softball team continues at home with two midweek doubleheaders.
 
GAME INFORMATION
 
Army at UAlbany (DH)
DATE: Tuesday, April 23
TIME: 2:00 PM
SITE: UAlbany Field - Albany, N.Y.
RECORDS: UAlbany 21-11, 9-5 America East | Army 10-29, 6-6 Patriot League
SERIES RECORD: 16-9, UAlbany leads
STATS: UAlbanySports.com
STREAM: AE.TV
 
CCSU at UAlbany (DH)
DATE: Thursday, April 25
TIME: 2:00 PM
SITE: UAlbany Field - Albany, N.Y.
RECORDS: UAlbany 21-11, 9-5 America East | CCSU 23-12, 10-8 NEC
SERIES RECORD: 6-2, UAlbany leads
STATS: UAlbanySports.com
STREAM: AE.TV
 
*records as of 4/22
 
GREAT DANE REWIND

• UAlbany is 21-11 with a 9-5 America East record.
• The Great Danes began the season at NC State's Wolfpack Classic (Feb. 16-17). Accumulating one win in two games over Iona, UAlbany fell in both games against the ACC host.
• At the annual Spring Games competition (Mar. 1-3), the Great Danes added a 4-1 record. 
• In their first doubleheader of the season, UAlbany split the results against FDU (Mar. 9).
• Moving on with the UMBC Spring Invite (March. 15-16), the Great Danes notched a 3-1 record with games against Niagara and Wisconsin. After a shutout against each team on Saturday, UAlbany added two one-run games on Sunday, including a no-hitter against Wisconsin.
• In their first conference series, the Great Danes swept Maine with three victories, including one shutout (Mar. 30-31).
• UAlbany went 2-1 against UMBC to win the series (Apr. 6-7). After the single-game win on Saturday, the two teams split the doubleheader on Sunday.
• During a midweek doubleheader, the Great Danes won both games at UMass Lowell (Apr. 9) before falling in a three-game series at Bryant (Apr. 13-14).
• Most recently, UAlbany defeated Binghamton at home (Apr. 20-21). After splitting the doubleheader on Saturday, the Great Danes won the rubber match for the series win.
• UAlbany has added three non-conference wins with a doubleheader sweep over UMass (Mar. 27) and a victory over Providence (Apr. 18).

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AT THE PLATE

• Graduate student Caitlyn Mitros leads the team with a .380 batting average and 38 hits.
• In total, four Great Danes own a batting average over .350 - graduate student Morgan Petty (.358), redshirt-junior Victoria Vilarchao (.355), and graduate student Maddi Petrella (.351) - with one additional student-athlete batting over .300 (freshman Mary Kate Murray (.306)).
• Petty owns team-highs with 31 RBI, 27 runs, and eight home runs. Petrella follows closely with 24 RBI and six home runs while Mitros follows with 25 runs.
• Petrella leads with 17 multi-base hits (11 doubles, six homers) and Petty follows closely with 16 (eight doubles, eight homers). Vilarchao has hit five doubles and four homers. 
• Half of all of Petrella's hits are multi-base hits. Petty is just behind her reaching at least second base on 47% of her hits while Vilarchao is hitting 40% multi-base hits.
• Sophomore Deanna Grahek, senior Jordan Nastos, and Mitros have hit one triple each.

 
IN THE CIRCLE

• Graduate student Wendi Hammond continues to serve as the Great Danes' starting pitcher.
• Hammond leads with 126.0 innings pitched, 15 complete games, 16 wins, including four shutouts, and 83 strikeouts. 
• Redshirt-junior Kate Powers follows with seven complete games, 60.0 innings pitched, five wins, three of which are shutouts, and 31 strikeouts.
• Junior Dominique Prevette has pitched for nine strikeouts in 19.1 innings pitched.
• At the UMBC Spring Invite, Powers and Hammond combined for four complete games, including two shutouts and a no-hitter. Allowing just one earned run throughout the competition, Hammond ended the weekend with a 0.00 ERA while Powers tallied a 0.64 ERA.
• In their AE-opening series, Powers pitched a complete game shutout for just the second time this season. She allowed only one hit and one walk on her way to a 0.00 ERA in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader. 

 
ABOUT ARMY

• The Black Knights are 10-29 on the season with a 6-6 conference record.
• Starting the season with five losses at the NFCA Leadoff Classic (Feb. 9-11), five losses at the Panther Invitational (Feb. 16-18), a 1-4 record at the I-75 Tournament (Feb. 23-25), a 1-3 record at the MTSU Invitational (Mar. 1-3), and a split 1-1 at the Morgan St. Tournament (Mar. 10), Army came out of the tournament season to play a doubleheader at Rider (Mar. 16) for one win and one loss.
• With a 4-19 record, the Black Knights opened Patriot League play with three losses at Boston U. (Mar. 22, 24).
• Army's first series sweep came over Holy Cross (Apr. 7-8) after splitting the three-game series, 1-2, at Bucknell (Mar. 30-31).
• Their most recent conference action came from a 2-1 series win over Lafayette (Apr. 13-14).
• The Black Knights have added wins in a doubleheader over CCSU and two losses to Fordham and Siena (one each).
• Kayla Edwards (.382) and Ashton White (.371) lead the team with their respective batting averages.
• Edwards has totaled a team-high with 13 doubles and 30 runs. White holds the lead with 29 RBI while following with 10 doubles.
• In the circle, the Black Knights have utilized five different pitchers.
• Amanda Eaglin has seen the most time with 83.2 innings pitched. Breanna Izzo (64.1) and Olivia Farris (53.0) follow.
• Eaglin has started 19 games with five complete games, including one shutout win.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE BLACK KNIGHTS

• The Great Danes lead the series, 16-9.
• Most recently, UAlbany and Army split a doubleheader during the 2023 season. 
• The Great Danes won a high-scoring 11-10 contest in eight innings for game one.
• Game two resulted in a 7-3 win for the Black Knights.

 
ABOUT CCSU

• The Blue Devils are 23-12 on the season with a 10-8 NEC record.
• CCSU opened 2024 action with eight consecutive wins - Saint Peter's (x4), Holy Cross (x2), and Norfolk State (x2).
• After a loss at Marist, the Blue Devils added shortened victories over Hampton and Holy Cross.
• Starting off conference play with a 2-1 series win over FDU (Mar. 16-17), CCSU fell in all three games against LIU (Mar. 22, 24) before sweeping Le Moyne (Mar. 29-30).
• Continuing the trend, the Blue Devils swept Wagner (Apr. 13-14) after three losses to Saint Francis U. (Apr. 6-7).
• Most recently, CCSU swept a doubleheader against Army (Apr. 17) and went 2-1 in a three-game series against Merrimack (Apr. 20-21).
• Ava Cino is hitting near .400 to lead the team. 
• With four total hitters over .300, Paige Stringer leads with 33 RBI and 10 home runs.
• Cino and Kassandra Machado follow with 25 RBI while Machado holds a team-high 19 extra-base hits.

 
SERIES AGAINST THE BLUE DEVILS

• The Great Danes lead the series, 6-2.
• Each of the series' four doubleheaders have been sweeps. 
• UAlbany is undefeated at home with two doubleheaders.
• The Great Danes have swept each of the two most recent doubleheaders - 2021 and 2022. 
• The 2022 contests consisted of an 8-1 win and a 14-4 victory in 6 innings.

 
AROUND THE AMERICA EAST

• Bryant is winning 80% of their conference games to lead the conference.
• Binghamton follows with 10 wins in 14 games.
• UAlbany rounds out the top three with a 9-5 AE record.
• UMBC sits just above .500 with an 8-7 league record.
• UMass Lowell owns three wins in 13 AE contests.
• Maine rounds out the conference with one win (1-14).

 
AMERICA EAST CONTESTS THIS WEEK

• Tuesday
  • Holy Cross at Bryant, 1 pm (DH)
  • Army at UAlbany, 2 pm (DH)
• Wednesday
  • UMass Lowell at Stonehill, 3 pm (DH)
  • Colgate at Binghamton, 4 pm (DH)
• Thursday
  • CCSU at UAlbany, 2 pm (DH)
  • Maine at Holy Cross, 3 pm (DH)
• Saturday
  • UAlbany at UMBC, 12 pm (DH)
  • Bryant at Binghamton, 12 pm (DH)
  • Maine at UMass Lowell, 1 pm (DH)
• Sunday
  • Maine at UMass Lowell, 12 pm
  • UAlbany at UMBC, 12 pm
  • Bryant at Binghamton, 12 pm

 
UP NEXT

• The Great Danes will close out the week at UMBC with a three-game series.

 
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