Softball Heads to George Mason for Three-Game Series

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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham softball (20-18, 8-6) resumes Atlantic 10 play this weekend with a three-game series at George Mason (17-22, 6-9). Saturday's doubleheader is set for a 3 p.m. start and Sunday's series finale will start at 1 p.m.  
 
Live stats will be available for all three games via the link above, but only Sunday's contest will be streamed live on ESPN+.
 
Lace Up For Pediatric Cancer
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Last Time Out
Fordham split a doubleheader at Army on Wednesday, riding two, two-run hits by Rachel Hubertus, one single and one double, to a 7-2 victory in game one, but falling, 3-0, in game two. Read about it all here.
 
Series History vs. George Mason
Fordham holds a 17-5 series lead since 1995. The two schools met twice before the Patriots joined the Atlantic 10 in 1996, with each school winning twice. It's been nearly all Rams since, although this is the first time the two teams have met since the 2019 season. Fordham took two out of three in Fairfax that season, but Mason won the most recent meeting, 6-5, in walk-off fashion.
 
Bailey Enoch Named Pitcher of the Week
The sophomore earned her first career weekly award from the league by allowing just two unearned runs over 12 frames, striking out 10, in both of the Rams' wins last week, at Hofstra and against Saint Joseph's. This is now the fourth time in program history that three different student-athletes have earned Pitcher of the Week in the same season. Read all about her week here.
 
#Dinger Watch
With her walk-off bomb last Saturday, redshirt senior Rachel Hubertus is now up to 14 on the year, tied for 8^th-most in a season already and easily leading the Atlantic 10 and 22^nd in all of Division I and 24^thwith 0.37 per game. She has started surging up the all-time list and is now solo fifth all-time, passing Katie Davis ('06) and Erin Fisher ('10), with 36. 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 49^th nationally with 1.05 dingers per game.
 
Speed Kills
Graduate student Brianna Pinto is a perfect 22-for-22 in stolen base attempts this season after stealing four last week, now sixth-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 82 for her career, nine more than the previous record set by Krystle Henry in 2007. Unsurprisingly, Pinto leads the Atlantic 10 on the basepaths, but nationally she sits 34^th in total steals and 32^nd with 0.58 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 82 during her five seasons in the Bronx. Home runs aside, Hubertus is now just six RBIs away from joining that all-time top-10, as well, and has moved up to fourth all-time currently with a career .610 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 288, 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 returns home to host St. John's next Wednesday evening under the lights of Bahoshy Field with a 7 p.m. start time on ESPN+.