STROUDSBURG, Pa.- After dropping a pair at Lock Haven on Saturday to split the season series with the Bald Eagles, the West Chester University softball team (18-16, 8-8) is set to return to action on Tuesday with a visit to Creekview Park to take on Esat Stroudsburg (23-13, 11-7) in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.
West Chester at East Stroudsburg
Game Details: April 14 I 1 & 3 P.M.
Location: Creekview Park (Stroudsburg, Pa.)
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Last Time Out
West Chester dropped a pair to Lock Haven on Saturday to settle for a split in the season series with the Bald Eagles, losing game one by a 10-2 final in six innings before dropping the nightcap by an 8-7 final in eight innings as the team also fell to 2-2 on the week after beginning the week with a sweep of Felician at home on Thursday.
For the week,
Danielle Ciliberto (Ambler, Pa./Wissahickon) and
Mairead Hopkins (West Chester, Pa./Rustin) both batted an even .500(7-for-14; 5-for-10) on the week. Ciliberto had one extra-base hit (a double) and four RBI along with a run, while Hopkins had a home run, five RBI, and scored three runs.
Tess Kearney (Hatboro, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) also had a good week at the plate, batting .462 (6-for-13) with a pair of doubles, three RBI, and three runs, while
Julia Miller (Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown) batted .429 (3-for-7) with three runs and an RBI, including a walk-off single against Felician on Thursday.
In the circle, Ciliberto was 1-0 with a 3.41 ERA and 11 strikeouts in 12.1 innings of work in two starts, while
Alyssa Tooley (Horsham, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) was 1-1 with a 2.52 ERA over the course of 8.1 innings in three appearances. Ciliberto went the distance on Thursday against Felician and earned a shutout, her second of the season in the process.
Flock Talk
In the circle, Ciliberto is 10-7 overall with a 3.06 ERA and a .300 batting average against with four complete games, two shutouts, and a pair of saves in 25 appearances and 12 starts. The senior, who joined the 400 strikeout club earlier this month against Bloomsburg, has struck out 59 batters in 98.1 innings, which is best on the team. Tooley is 6-2 with a 3.16 ERA and a .249 batting average against with 30 strikeouts in 55.1 innings of work. The sophomore has made 21 appearances and seven starts this season and also has a save to her credit.
Maci Strechay (Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) is 2-7 on the year with a 3.2 ERA and a .279 batting average against with a pair of complete games and four saves in 21 appearances and 15 starts. The rookie has struck 36 batters in her first 70 collegiate innings this spring.
At the plate, Hopkins is batting a team-best .409 with 10 doubles, six home runs, and a triple as she continues her pursuit of the Golden Rams career home run record. Hopkins has scored 35 runs in her senior season and has driven in 24 more and has a 1.171 OPS, which is also the best on the team. Ciliberto and
Kayla Fitzpatrick (Carle Place, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) are second and third on the team offensively, batting .365 and .330, respectively. Ciliberto has six extra-base hits with four doubles and two home runs, 22 RBI, and nine runs scored, while Fitzpatrick has four doubles and a home run, scoring 19 runs and driving in 16 more in her 34 games played.
Tess Kearney (Hatboro, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) continues to enjoy an outstanding junior season as she is batting .324 (33-for-120) with 24 runs scored, which is second best on the team, along with seven extra-base hits (five doubles, one triple, one home run) for 18 RBI as the season enters its final weeks.
Road Warriors
Tuesday's doubleheader is the Golden Rams second straight away from home and a part of a larger stretch, which will see the Golden Rams play four of five doubleheaders away from West Chester. The Golden Rams return home on Friday, the 17th, to take on Mansfield beginning at 1 p.m. before visiting Shippensburg and Millersville on April 18 and 21. Once this road swing concludes, West Chester will play three of its final four doubleheaders of the year in West Chester, as the Golden Rams will host East Stroudsburg (4/24), Kutztown (4/25), and Bloomsburg (5/2), with the lone remaining road trip being a May 1
st visit to Shepherd.
First Time Through
Tuesday's doubleheader with East Stroudsburg will conclude West Chester's first full trip through PSAC East play after the Golden Rams started their second round robin on Saturday at Lock Haven. Entering play on Tuesday at ESU, West Chester (8-8) is on the wrong side of the PSAC Tournament bubble, sitting in a tie for sixth in the league standings, trailing Kutztown, Bloomsburg, East Stroudsburg, Lock Haven, and Shippensburg. West Chester also dropped the first two games of its series with Shepherd, so the team currently does not own a tiebreak over the Rams, who are 9-9 in league play.
Get it Done
West Chester continues to encounter bad luck in extra-inning games as the team fell to 0-5 in extras with an 8-7 loss in eight innings in the series finale in Lock Haven on Saturday afternoon.
Series History
With a season sweep of West Chester last season, including a win in the NCAA Tournament, which concluded the Golden Rams 2025 season, East Stroudsburg holds a 91-90 lead over the Golden Rams in the all-time series. West Chester enters play on Tuesday looking for its first win over the Warriors since an 11-7 win in the PSAC Championship game in May 2024 and its first regular-season win over the Warriors since a 7-2 victory in March 2024. West Chester's last win at Creekview Park came on March 31, 2023, when the team picked up an important split with a 5-2 victory in the nightcap. The Golden Rams have not swept East Stroudsburg in the regular season since April 2018, when the team won 9-1 and 7-4 in the final games of a regular-season series sweep of the Warriors.
Scouting ESU
East Stroudsburg enters play on Tuesday at 23-13 overall and 11-7 in league play after sweeping a doubleheader from Shepherd on Saturday with 9-0 and 1-0 shutout victories over the Rams. In game one of that doubleheader, Sarah Davenport threw her first perfect game of the season and third of her career with 12 strikeouts before striking out six and allowing just two hits in the nightcap to improve to 14-6 on the year. ESU has been hard to beat at home this season, as the Warriors are 16-4 at Creekview Park, with their last home loss, and first since March 24, coming against Shippensburg by a 5-0 final on April 10.
Offensively, Kinsley Proepper and Delaney Ridgell are batting .444 and .402 on the season, while Tulana Mingin bats .319, followed by Katie Master at .310. Proepper has a team-best 11 doubles on the year, along with three home runs and a double, scoring 21 runs and driving in 15 more, while Ridgell has a team-high seven home runs, four doubles, and a triple, scoring 25 runs, while driving in 20 more. Mingin has two doubles and two triples to her name and has scored 27 runs, while Master has 10 doubles, two triples, and two home runs, scoring 13 runs and driving in 21 more. Megan Chroniger, is batting .301 on the season with five doubles, five triples, and five home runs and has driven in a team-best 31 runs, while scoring 23 more.
In the circle, Davenport is the workhorse for East Stroudsburg, entering the new week at 14-6 overall with a 1.42 ERA and a .176 batting average against with 17 complete games and eight strikeouts. Davenport has fanned 173 batters in 128 innings, which is once among the nation's best. Tessa Guenette is 8-3 with a 2.99 ERA and a .254 batting average against with five complete games, two shutouts, and a save in 14 appearances and nine starts. Guenette did not pitch on Saturday after allowing five runs on 12 hits in 4.2 innings vs Shippensburg, but has 37 strikeouts in 68 innings of work to this point in 2026.
Up Next
West Chester will return to action at home on Friday against Mansfield, beginning at 1 p.m., before visiting Shippensburg on Saturday to conclude its series with the Raiders.
