Softball to Face La Salle in Crucial Doubleheader

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With just four games remaining until the conference championship, the Rams can secure the outright regular season Atlantic 10 title this Saturday in a doubleheader at La Salle beginning at 11 AM.
 
The Rams enter the twin bill having won 13 contests in a row and 11 out of 12 in Atlantic 10 play.
 
THE STANDINGS: Saturday's doubleheader will feature two of the top teams in the Atlantic 10, as La Salle currently sits in third place with a conference record of 9-5.  The Explorers were in second place until Wednesday, when they dropped both games of a twin bill to crosstown rival Saint Joe's.
 
A doubleheader sweep would clinch the outright regular season title for the Rams.
 
RAMS DOMINATING IN A-10 PLAY: The Rams are playing their best A-10 ball in nearly a decade, entering Saturday's double dip with an 11-1 regular in league play.  It's possible that the Rams could finish the regular season with their best record since 2005, when A-10 Player of the Year Katie Davis, A-10 Pitcher of the Year Sara Kinney and A-10 Rookie of the Year Laura Klaiber led Fordham to a 16-1 finish in conference play and the first regular season title in school history.
 
THESE NUMBERS ARE NOT TYPOS: Sometimes stats fail to convey how well a team is playing.  Looking at the 2014 Rams in Atlantic 10 play, this is not the case.  In league games, the Rams are hitting .342 and reaching base in over 43 percent of their plate appearances.  Two Rams, Amy Van Hoven (.526) and Elise Fortier (.517), are hitting better than .500 while Gabby Luety (.469) in not far behind them.  Fortier and Luety have combined for 35 RBIs in just 12 games.
 
The Fordham pitching staff has been nearly untouchable in league play, holding opponents to a .201 batting average and accumulating a 1.30 team ERA.  Michele Daubman leads the team in this category with a 0.55 ERA in A-10 match ups.
 
In those 12 conference games, Fordham pitchers have struck out opposing batters 43 times and surrendered only 24 walks.  Fordham batters, on the other hand, have reached base on balls 46 times while striking out on just 18 occasions.
 
CHASING HISTORY: In 1961, it was the M&M Boys chasing The Babe's single season home run record that forever etched that summer into the history books.  53 years later in the same borough (on a slightly smaller stage), seniors Gabby Luety and Elise Fortier have gone back and forth chasing the Fordham softball career home run record, as each currently sits with 40 for her career.  The mark they are chasing belongs to Jocelyn Dearborn ('11), who belted 45 goners during her time at Rose Hill.