Softball Welcomes Saint Joseph's to Bahoshy Field for a Three-Game Easter Weekend Series

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham softball (18-15, 7-4) returns to the Bronx and to Atlantic 10 play for a three-game series with Saint Joseph's (14-17, 9-5) on Friday and Saturday. Due to Easter Sunday, the series will begin with a one-off on Friday at 11 a.m. before the standard Saturday doubleheader starting at noon.
 
All three games will be streamed on ESPN+ but all three will carry different links, which can be found on the schedule page above.
 
NFCA Strike Out Cancer Day
Fordham softball is partnering with StrikeOut Cancer on Friday with a specific goal of bringing awareness for Ovarian Cancer. Each year 22,000 women will be diagnosed with Ovarian cancer. To those women who currently battle this deadly disease, we stand with you. To those who have passed, and to those who have survived, we honor you. Specifically, we would like to recognize, Eileen Yoshinaka, Aunt of Head Coach Melissa Inouye; Assunta Pacelli, Great Grandmother of Associate Head Coach, Jennifer Lapicki; and Frances H. Miller, Grandmother of Devon Miller.
 
Military Appreciation Day
Saturday will be Fordham's military appreciation day, honoring and celebrating the men and women who have fought for us and for our country and protect and serve us each and every day. Thank you so much for your sacrifice and all that you do to keep us safe!
 
Last Time Out
Fordham traveled to nearby Hofstra and picked up a hard-earned 3-2 victory. Bailey Enoch earned her fourth win with six-plus innings of two-run ball, both unearned, before Makenzie McGrath picked up her third career save with a gutsy effort out of the pen with two runners on and nobody out in the seventh to preserve the one-run lead. Amanda Carey halved the deficit in the second inning with a solo home run and, in the third, Fordham loaded the bases and scored a pair on an Enoch RBI single and a Michaela Carter groundout. Read about it all here.
 
Series History vs. Saint Joseph's
In one of Fordham's oldest rivalries, the Rams lead all-time 40-34 since entering the Atlantic 10 in 1996. The Hawks dominated the early portion of the series before Fordham began to turn the tide around the 2008 season. It's been back-and-forth over the last three seasons but most recently Saint Joseph's took three out of four at Bahoshy Field last Spring before the Rams got revenge in the opening game of the Atlantic 10 Championship, 7-3. Those regular season losses were the only three of Fordham's 2021 league season.
 
#Dinger Watch
Redshirt senior Rachel Hubertus is on an absolute tear in recent weeks, seeing a five-game home run streak ended last Wednesday but picked right back up last Saturday. She is now up to 13 on the year, tied for 10^th-most in a season already and easily leading the Atlantic 10 and 21^st in all of Division I and 14^th with 0.41 per game. She has started surging up the all-time list and is now tied for fifth all-time, alongside Katie Davis ('06) and Erin Fisher ('10), with 35. Meanwhile, Julia Martine, with nine, is right behind her and second, and Bailey Enoch, with six, sits in a tie for fourth in the A-10. Put together, the Rams are 36^th nationally with 1.19 dingers per game.
 
Speed Kills
Graduate student Brianna Pinto is a perfect 18-for-18 in stolen base attempts this season, 11^th-most in a single campaign, and has been caught stealing just ONCE in her five-year career at Fordham, way back in April of her freshman season. She is now up to 78 for her career, five more than the previous record set by Krystle Henry in 2007. Unsurprisingly, Pinto leads the Atlantic 10 on the basepaths, but nationally she sits 41^st in total steals and 36^th with 0.56 thefts per contest.
 
Milestone Watch
Pinto became Fordham softball's all-time stolen base leader with her 74^th career steal at home in the series finale against Rhode Island on March 27^th. She is now up to 78 during her five seasons in the Bronx. Home runs aside, Hubertus is now just nine RBIs away from joining that all-time top-10, as well, and has moved up to fourth all-time currently with a career .618 slugging percentage. The pair are also on pace to enter the top-10 for four-year batting average, as well, by season's end.
 
With her latest no-hitter, Devon Miller is now joint-seventh with nine career shutouts. She is also moving up the strikeout charts, now seventh with 285, and last Sunday moved into 10^th all-time with 23 career victories, as well.
 
Hubertus, Miller Garner A-10 Weekly Awards
Two weeks ago, Hubertus earned her second career weekly accolade from the conference, while Miller picked up her fourth career Pitcher nod. Read about their weekends here.
 
Makenzie McGrath Named Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week
The senior earned her first weekly league accolade on February 15 after picking up both of the team's wins opening weekend, one in her fifth career complete game and one in relief. Read all about her stellar performances here.
 
A-10 Preseason Poll
The Rams were predicted to finish second in the annual Atlantic 10 preseason coaches poll. Fordham garnered 71 points and three first-place votes, finishing just three points shy of last year's champions, George Washington, who received four first-place votes, and ahead of Saint Joseph's, who earned the final two first-place votes and 55 total points. Read about it here.
 
D1Softball.com's Top 150
Junior pitcher and reigning Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year Devon Miller was named by D1Softball.com as its 149^th-best player in the country heading into the season. You can read about it here, though it is a subscription-based website.
 
Up Next
Fordham head north to West Point for a Wednesday doubleheader against Army starting at 2 p.m.