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On This Date: Mineau Nearly Perfect in Fourth Career No-Hitter at Temple

Then-Sophomore Struck Out 14 Owls, Allowed Just One Baserunner

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
 
Ambler, Pa. (April 23, 2010) – On this date nine years ago, Fordham softball Hall of Famer Jen Mineau, then a sophomore, recorded her second no-hitter of the season and fourth of her career already to that point, on the road at Temple. Mineau struck out the side three times and tallied 14 for the contest as the Rams won, 6-0. It was her 12th shutout of the year to that point, as well.
 
Just one Owl reached base in the contest – Fagan led off the fifth by reaching on an error by Chelsea Palumbo at short. Mineau began and ended the contest by striking out the side. In fact, she finished the game by striking out six straight batters. She needed just 89 pitches to coast to her 25th win on the year, a new single-season record, breaking Sara Kinney's previously held mark of 24 in 2005.
 
At the plate, the Rams scored twice in the opening frame on a pair of errors, added three more in the second on a solo home run by Jessica Richards and a two-run shot by Jamie LaBovick, and wrapped up scoring with a Meghan Shager solo shot in the third.
 
The 2010 season was Mineau's most dominant statistically, setting the single-season marks for wins (34), strikeouts (503), starts (42), appearances (50), shutouts (15), and ERA (1.04). She walked just 34 batters, as well, resulting in a 0.64 WHIP, and held opposing hitters to a .149 batting average.
 
The Schaghticoke, N.Y. native rewrote the Fordham record book, setting 16 records including career marks for wins (101), strikeouts (1,390) and ERA (1.42). A three-time All-Region and Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team honoree, she was twice honored as an NFCA All-American and with the Hobbs Family Award (Fordham's Female Student-Athlete of the Year). Academically, Mineau graduated Magna Cum Laude and was twice named an Academic All-American® and A-10 Scholar Athlete of the Year. In 2019, she took her appropriate place in the Fordham Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
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