Saturday, March 28
Lawrenceville, NJ
2:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Rider
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Softball Hits the Road for MAAC Series at Rider
3/27/2026 7:30:00 PM | Softball
Quinnipiac at Rider
Saturday, Mar. 28, 2026 | 2:00 PM
Sunday, Mar. 29, 2026 | 12:00 PM/2:00 PM
Herb & Joan Young Field | Lawrenceville, N.J.
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HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac softball team travels down to New Jersey this weekend for a MAAC series at Rider University.
First pitches are set for 2:00 p.m on Saturday and 12:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Games were originally set for a Saturday DH but got moved due to cold weather.
SCOUTING RIDER
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Saturday, Mar. 28, 2026 | 2:00 PM
Sunday, Mar. 29, 2026 | 12:00 PM/2:00 PM
Herb & Joan Young Field | Lawrenceville, N.J.
WATCH: Click Here
LIVE STATS: Click Here
HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac softball team travels down to New Jersey this weekend for a MAAC series at Rider University.
First pitches are set for 2:00 p.m on Saturday and 12:00 p.m. & 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Games were originally set for a Saturday DH but got moved due to cold weather.
SCOUTING RIDER
- The Broncs enter the weekend with a 13-13 overall record, 5-3 in the MAAC.
- Kendall Reda-Fehsal was named MAAC Player of the Week. The junior hit .467 (7-for-15) against Princeton and Army, totaling nine RBIs across the four games, and scoring four runs.
- Maddie Luedtke went 6-for-8 against Niagara during the midweek, recording three home runs and five RBI. Luedtke currently has a 1.178 OPS with seven home runs on the season.
- Pitcher Fallyn Stoeckel has made a team-high 15 appearances, starting 14 games. Stoeckel holds a 7-6 record with a 5.54 ERA, allowing 83 runs while recording 35 strikeouts.
- The Bobcats are riding a six-game win streak after sweeping a midweek DH against Merrimack on Tuesday.
- Quinnipiac improved to 10-1 in conference play, their best start since being in the MAAC.
- Sofia Vega has recorded a hit in seven of her last eight games, five being multi-hits. Against Merrimack, the senior went 4-for-5, recording two doubles, three RBI, and scoring three runs.
- Vega leads the team in various categories: batting average (0.446), OPS (1.131), and triples (3).
- Mary Fogg has recorded at least one hit in 15 of her last 17 games. On Tuesday, Fogg went 5-for-7 with a double and three runs scored.
- Riley Potter is on a five-game hitting streak, three being multi-hit performances.
- Aryn Bombery has recorded a hit in seven of her last nine games.
- Shannon Kendall posts a 11-4 record with a 4.64 ERA. Kendall has recorded 29 strikeouts.
- The Quinnipiac Softball team was voted to 7th in the MAAC Preseason Poll after last season ended in the MAAC opening round against the Rider Broncs.
- Senior outfielder Mary Fogg was named to the Preseason All-MAAC Team.
- Fogg started 38 games and led the team in batting average (.333), hits (40), and multi-hit performances (9), while also being named Second Team All-MAAC.
- Head coach Hillary Smith named seniors Natalia Apatiga, Kennedy DeMott, and Sofia Vega captains for the 2026 season.
- All three ranked among the Bobcats' top five hitters last season.
- Quinnipiac welcomes six new faces to the 2026 roster.
- The Bobcats add sophomore transfer Caelin Kosvitch (Iona), while the first-year class features Connecticut native Griffin Paladino (Fairfield), along with Kinsley Cox (Murrieta, CA), Laney Adie (Washington, NJ), CJ Harris (Annapolis, MD), and Jasmine Kline (Gettysburg, PA).
- The Bobcats return 16 players from last year's team.
- Mary Fogg returns after a standout All-MAAC Second Team season, leading QU in various categories. Fogg was also named All-MAAC First Team and Rookie Team in 2023.
- Madison Waltke was named to the MAAC All-Rookie Team in 2025. Waltke finished conference play with the fourth best batting average on QU at .302 and the team-best OPS at .888.
- Junior catcher Riley Potter posted a 0.267 batting average, recording 31 hits and a team-high 10 doubles.
- QU is coming off its best MAAC record in the past eight seasons, finishing conference play at 14-11.
- Head Coach Hillary Smith enters her eighth season with the Bobcats after being named the eighth coach in program history.
- Assistant coach Xen Penny enters his first season with the Bobcats.
- QU Softball alum Hannah Davis also joins the coaching staff for her first season.
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