West Chester vs Bloomsburg
Game Details: April 9 I 2/4 P.M.
Location: WCU Softball Field (West Chester, Pa.)
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Series: 21-21 (Since March 2005; 8-2 in last 10)
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West Chester vs Millersville
Game Details: April 10 I 1/3 P.M.
Location: WCU Softball Field (West Chester, Pa.)
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Series: 85-52-1 (WCU 8-2 in last 10; 4-2 since 2024)
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Last Time Out
West Chester ventured to West Virginia on Friday in the midst of a four-game losing streak and dropped game one by a 9-1 final in six innings before rebounding with a 4-2 win in the nightcap to pick up an important split and halt a five-game losing streak. In the nightcap, West Chester trailed early and was down by a run (2-1) heading into the seventh, despite a sixth-inning RBI single by Paige Marabell but a two-RBI single by Mairead Hopkins and an RBI single by Casey Best in the seventh was enough for West Chester to earn the 4-2 road victory. Danielle Ciliberto earned her eighth win of the year at Shepherd on Friday, scattering just seven hits and two unearned runs while striking out four in a complete-game effort.
Flock Talk
Ciliberto and Mairead Hopkins are first and second on the team offensively, batting .369 and .358 on the year, as Hopkins leads the team in runs with 28 and is second in RBI with 26. Paige Marabell is batting .333 on the year with an OPS of 1.033, which is second best on the team, trailing only Hopkins (1.064), while leading in RBI with 28 with 14 extra base hits, including six home runs. Julia Miller is the fifth and final Golden Ram batting north of .300 on the year, batting .313 with 30 hits, including three doubles and one triple, along with 18 runs and 14 RBI.
In the circle, Ciliberto and Edwards are 8-5 on the year with ERAs of 1.99 and 2.84, along with opponent batting averages of .240 and .229, with 62 and 67 strikeouts in 91.2 and 79 innings of work, respectively. Ciliberto has five complete games, one shutout to her name, and a save, while Edwards has three complete games, two shutouts, and two saves. Alyssa Tooley is 3-1 on the year with a 3.32 ERA and a .257 opponents' batting average in 10 appearances with four starts. She has struck 15 in 25.1 innings of work, including one complete-game victory earlier this season. Jaelyn Silfies and Rhiannon Henry have also appeared in relief, appearing in four games each with 2.25 and 8.84 ERAs and opponent batting averages of .289 and .320 on the year.
Time to Go
West Chester has won just four of its last 10, including one of its previous six after being swept by Shippensburg on March 29 and East Stroudsburg on April 1 before picking up a split at Shepherd on Friday afternoon. Entering the week at 6-8 with nine doubleheaders remaining on the schedule, West Chester has ample time to steady the ship and ensure a return to Quakertown in the regular season's final month.
Late-Inning Heroics
West Chester is 6-8 in PSAC East play after opening league action on March 18 with a split at Millersville. Four of these 14 games have been decided in extra innings, with another (the 7-6 victory over Kutztown on March 25) coming via a seventh-inning walk-off double by Melvin.
No Stranger to the Rain
West Chester has had its doubleheader vs Bloomsburg rained out twice already, first being postponed on Saturday after heavy rains moved through the area on Friday morning before being postponed again on Monday due to steady rain in West Chester on Monday.
Let’s Stay Home
West Chester will play three doubleheaders at home this week vs Millersville (4/8), Bloomsburg (4/9), and Lock Haven (4/12) but will not return home again until Saturday, April 19, when Shippensburg comes to South Campus for Senior Day beginning at 1 p.m. The doubleheader vs Shippensburg on the 19th will be the Golden Rams second-to-last home doubleheader of the year, with the final doubleheader coming on April 25 vs Shepherd.
Series History
West Chester holds an 86-53-1 lead in the all-time series vs Millersville, including wins in three of four games a year ago and eight of the last 10. West Chester split the first meeting at Millersville earlier this season, winning game one by an 8-6 final in 10 innings before dropping the nightcap 6-5 in 10 innings.
Against Bloomsburg, West Chester is 21-21 vs the Huskies since 2005, including a split at Bloomsburg last April and a 3-1 victory in the season series after sweeping a pair from Bloomsburg in dramatic fashion in late April.
Scouting Millersville
Since splitting its first two PSAC East doubleheaders of the year, Millersville is just 3-9 since, including a sweep by Shepherd on Saturday and a pair of splits vs Bloomsburg and Kutztown prior to that. Against Shepherd, Millersville dropped the opener by a 5-1 final before falling in the nightcap by a 4-2 final.
Offensively, Jocelyn Langer is first on the team in most categories, including batting average (.439), OPS (1.006), hits (50), and runs (36), while Angelina Edwards is first on the team in RBI with 38, including 12 extra base hits (eight doubles, one triple, three home runs) despite batting just .267 (32-for-120) on the season.
In the circle, Nicolina Pezzone and Delaney Trozell are first and second on the team in wins at 9-6 and 7-5 with ERAs of 2.60 and 3.13, along with opponent batting averages of .267 and .292 on the year. Angelina Saverase is 2-1 on the year with an ERA of 4.00 and a .311 opponents batting average, while Mollie White is 3-3 with a staff-best ERA and opponent batting average of 1.94 and .250 in 39.2 innings of work with 16 of her 20 appearances in relief. Pezzone has a staff-best 76 strikeouts on the year in 78 innings of work, which is also the most on the team, while Troxell has 55 strikeouts in 67 innings.
Scouting Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg heads into the new week after a split with East Stroudsburg in Bloomsburg on Friday, dropping the opener by a 2-1 final before winning the nightcap by a 10-0 final in six innings.
At the plate, Emma Little and Mia Nemeth are first and second on the team offensively, batting .395 and .393 on the year with 26 and 24 RBI on the year. Little and Nemeth have also scored 20 and 19 runs on the year with OPSs of 1.221 and 1.046, respectively. Little is also tied for the team lead in home runs with six.
Callie Sowers is 9-3 in the circle with a 1.73 ERA in 13 starts, including 10 complete games. Sowers has 91 strikeouts on the year and has held opponents to a .206 batting average against. Kelly Eberly is 3-5 with a 1.57 ERA, .223 batting average, and 49 strikeouts in 44.2 innings of work, including four complete games.
