Friday, April 25
Fairfield, CT
2:30 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Sacred Heart University
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Bobcats Heading to Sacred Heart This Weekend
4/23/2025 11:17:00 AM | Softball
Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 2:30 & 4:30 PM
Fairfield, Conn. | Pioneer Park
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Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM
Fairfield, Conn. | Pioneer Park
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HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac softball team is facing Sacred Heart this weekend in their penultimate MAAC series of the spring.
QU currently has a record of 16-22 overall and 11-7 in the MAAC, sitting seventh in the conference. The 2025 squad's 11 MAAC wins is the most since 2016 as they are looking to make their first MAAC tournament in program history.
SCOUTING SACRED HEART
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Friday, April 25, 2025 | 2:30 & 4:30 PM
Fairfield, Conn. | Pioneer Park
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Quinnipiac at Sacred Heart
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM
Fairfield, Conn. | Pioneer Park
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HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac softball team is facing Sacred Heart this weekend in their penultimate MAAC series of the spring.
QU currently has a record of 16-22 overall and 11-7 in the MAAC, sitting seventh in the conference. The 2025 squad's 11 MAAC wins is the most since 2016 as they are looking to make their first MAAC tournament in program history.
SCOUTING SACRED HEART
- SHU is 18-22 and 8-9 in the MAAC, sitting just behind the Bobcats in eighth place.
- Elle Leckrone leads SHU in batting average at .355 while Morgan Teodosio has driven in 26 runs to lead the Pios.
- Sam Kowalski has a 2.41 ERA with 10 wins in the circle for SHU.
- QU is 27-17 versus SHU since 2001.
- In game one, neither team could score until Sofia Vega broke the scoreless tie with a three-run homerun to center field.
- In game two, QU fell behind 1-0 but came back with four runs in the fourth inning.
- Riley Potter got the scoring started with an RBI double before Madison Waltke, Sofia Vega, and Noelle Reid each had RBI singles.
- Ally Hochstadter ended the scoring in the fifth inning with an RBI double.
- Sydney Horan got the win in both games to bring her season total up to 14 wins.
- Sydney Horan is currently fourth in the MAAC in strikeouts with 110.
- She leads the nation in complete games (22) and is sixth nationally in innings pitched (159).
- Kennedy Demott ranks first in the MAAC and 16th nationally in caught stealing by, with 14 putouts.
- This past weekend Merrimack took game one and game three of the MAAC series over QU.
- The lone Bobcat win was thanks to Riley Potter's three-run double in the first inning.
- Potter, Kennedy Demott, and Mary Fogg each had two hits over the weekend for the Bobcats.
- The Bobcats were shutout 3-0 at Boston College on Tuesday afternoon.
- Sofia Vega, Noelle Reid, and Ella McGalliard each had a hit for QU.
- Vega extended her streak of reaching base to seven games, the longest active streak on QU.
- QU won all three games of their series against Mount this weekend by one run.
- In game one, QU fell behind but came back to win 3-2 in nine innings thanks to Kennedy Demott knocking in all three runs.
- In game two, the Bobcats Natalia Apatiga and Madison Waltke played hero for QU each knocking in runs.
- In game three, Demott and Apatiga each had three RBIs.
- In game one, QU scored first on a sac fly by Natalia Apatiga in the first and then Ella McGalliard homered in the second to push the lead to three.
- Canisius would come back with five runs in the third to make it 5-3.
- Apatiga came back with a solo homer to cut into the lead but Canisius would add another in the sixth and win 6-4.
- Her homer was the 100th hit of her career.
- Game two was halted due to a facility curfew and will be finished on Monday, April 28th, resuming play tied 3-3 after nine innings.
- In game one, QU fell behind 1-0 in the second inning but fought back to win 8-5.
- They took an 8-1 lead in the fifth inning after exploding with six runs, including homers from Madison Waltke and Sofia Vega.
- Niagara would get runs back in the seventh but it wouldn't be enough.
- In game two, the Bobcats and Purple Eagles were tied until the fourth inning when Aryn Bombery hit a two-run double to right center to take a 3-1 lead.
- QU added six more runs in the fifth and sixth to take a 9-1 lead an win in six innings.
- Natalia Apatiga led the way with three RBIs while Sydney Horan pitched six innings while only allowing one run to move to 8-12 in the circle.
- QU fell in both of its games to Marist this past Sunday in a non-league doubleheader.
- The Bobcats fell in game one despite exploding for nine runs, including a five-run fifth inning.
- In game two they were shutout 9-0.
- In QU's doubleheader with Rider they took both games by scores of 4-1 and 6-4.
- Sydney Horan notched her fifth win of the season and 30th of her career.
- Madison Waltke had the first multi-hit game of her career.
- Natalia Apatiga had two RBIs to bring her season total to 11, second on QU.
- On Tuesday's doubleheader, QU split the two games, losing game one 8-4 and winning game two by the same score.
- In game one, Sofia Vega notched her first career homerun.
- Sydney Horan won her fourth game of the season in game two, striking out 11 batters, matching her career-high.
- Mary Fogg and Sofia Vega each had RBI triples in game two.
- The Bobcats fell in all three games to Iona this past weekend to open MAAC play.
- In Sunday's game, Sydney Horan tied a career-high with 11 strikeouts.
- QU fell in all four of its games at the Mizzou Invitational a week ago.
- The Bobcats were able to garner one win in Missouri, playing Kansas City in a standalone game on Sunday morning, shutting out the Roos 8-0.
- Mary Fogg extended her team-leading on base streak to 10.
- She also leads the Bobcats in multi-hit games, notching her fourth of the season.
- Sydney Horan pitched her second complete-game shutout of the season.
- Both Mary Fogg and Brooke Hilliard have reached the 100-hit milestone this season.
- Fogg's came against Mizzou on March 15th while Hilliard reached it against Pitt on Feb. 21.
- QU went 2-2 in their four games at the Blue Hen Invitational two weekends ago.
- They defeated Morgan State 10-2 (Five innings) and Syracuse 4-1.
- Their win over Syracuse was the program's first win over a Power 4 team since April 2010 against Pitt.
- Jaelyn Gonzalez had a career-weekend, batting .500 while knocking six RBIs on two doubles, two walks, and she scored one run.
- The Bobcats took down Columbia and FGCU in the Space U Invitational last weekend in Orlando, fla.
- QU had a 14-run outburst in the game against Columbia, their first time scoring 14 runs in a game since April 2014.
- Natalia Apatiga led the way with five RBIs and Jaclyn Gonzalez allowed only one run on three hits.
- Against FGCU, Sydney Horan pitched seven scoreless innings and Noelle Reid scored on a walk off passed ball.
- The Bobcats were able to play two games last weekend in Nashville, Tenn. before weather could cancel the rest of the tournament.
- In game one against TSU, QU fell 3-1 with the lone run coming from a Sofia Vega RBI triple.
- Sydney Horan also struck out nine batters, the second highest total of her career in a single game and most since fanning 11 against UAlbany on March 1, 2024.
- In the second game on Friday, the Bobcats fell in extra innings to Illinois after taking a late lead.
- Mary Fogg went 3-4 with two runs scored while Natalia Apatiga had an RBI.
- Mia Rubirosa also scored two runs.
- QU welcomes eight First Year players to the 2025 squad.
- It features four Connecticut natives, Madison Waltke (Norwich), Mia Rubirosa (West Haven), Aryn Bombery (Naugatuck), and Alexandra Lewey (Fairfield).
- Lexi Perez (Orlando) and Shannon Kendall (Land O Lakes) are each from Florida, while Ava Tabangcura becomes the tenth current Bobcat from California.
- Zoey Nelson rounds out the group, hailing from Londonderry, New Hampshire.
- The Bobcats return 18 from a season ago, including the team's two main starting pitchers in Sydney Horan and Jaclyn Gonzalez.
- Amanda Engel, Ella McGalliard, and Jaclyn Gonzalez were also named as captains ahead of the season.
- Natalia Apatiga returns after a stellar Second Team All-MAAC season, leading the Bobcats in nearly every batting category and starting all 45 games alongside Sofia Vega.
- 2023 All-MAAC First Team and Rookie Selection Mary Fogg returns to the outfield as well for the Bobcats.
- Brooke Hilliard who led the team in runs scored also returns for the Bobcats.
- QU is coming off its best season since 2018, winning 20 games.
- It finished 9-15 in the MAAC, also their best finish since 2018.
- QU has been picked tied for ninth in the 2025 MAAC Coaches' Poll with Merrimack.
- Head Coach Hillary Smith enters her seventh season with the Bobcats after being named the eighth coach in program history.
- Coach Smith has brought in eight new faces to the program.
- Assistant coach Mandie Perez enters her third season with the Bobcats.
- Perez helped Smith see the Bobcats earn one All-MAAC honor in the 2024 season.
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