With the 2020 spring sports season canceled by the COVID-19 outbreak, we at Fordham have decided to dig back through our archives and provide our fans with content on some of the outstanding teams and student-athletes who have graced Rose Hill over the years
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March 28, 2001 – In one of the best single game performances in Fordham baseball history, Bobby Kingsbury drilled three home runs and drove in a school record nine runs, as the Rams ousted the C.W. Post Pioneers, 17-3, in Brookville, N.Y.
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The previous record was eight, which was done three times previously by Jack Burik against Army (1971), Jerry Geigle against Manhattan (1993), and Wes Crane against Iona (1997).
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Kingsbury was 4-for-4 that afternoon with three runs scored and a double to go with the three home runs and nine RBI. The amazing part of the game – it was only a seven-inning contest, as the game was called due to darkness.
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"It was a game tough to forget with a home run to center and two to right field," said Kingsbury when asked about it. "However, I remember that day more for after the game. Skip (Dan Gallagher) made me his first ever sophomore captain after that game. It was a shock but most of all it was an honor and I felt a great sense of pride."
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Kingsbury, a 2008 Fordham Athletics Hall of Famer, would go on to win Atlantic 10 Player of the Year honors as a sophomore, batting.363 with 44 runs scored, 15 doubles, six triples, eight home runs, and 47 RBI. He also registered a league-high 36 stolen bases in 2001. In conference play, he finished with a .405 batting average in 22 games.
Beckah Wiggins
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March 28, 2010 – After setting or tying a number records earlier that week, Beckah Wiggins shattered another school record in the first game of a doubleheader at Dayton, becoming the first Ram to ever hit three home runs in the same game.
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The Rams won the game 11-0 in six innings to open conference play, led offensively by Wiggins, who was 3-for-4 with three runs scored and eight RBI. She hit a two-run home run in the first, a two-run shot in the fifth, and a grand slam home run in the sixth. Previously, the school record for home runs in a game was two, which had been done 12 times by a Ram.
Jen Mineau
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"I could never forget that game," said Wiggins when asked about it. "I remember a number of those games like they were yesterday."
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Wiggins was not the only record breaker that day, as pitcher Jen Mineau struck out a then-school record 19 batters in the one-hit shutout. Though the game only went six innings, Mineau picked up a four-strikeout inning in the fourth, as one batter reached base on a dropped third strike, giving her the odd number total.
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The individual records for both Wiggins and Mineau were just a taste of what was to come, as Wiggins went on to be named Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Year with Mineau becoming Fordham's first All-American in softball and a Top 10 finalist for USA Softball's Player of the Year Award.