Fordham University Athletics

St. Louis, Mo. – "Bee Happy, Bee Healthy." It's the slogan for Honey Nut Cheerios. But it can also apply to today's softball matchup between Fordham and Dayton as Fordham's Holly Beeman is starting to "bee- healthy," throwing a complete game, three-hitter, to lead the Rams to a 4-1 win over the Flyers at the 2026 Betterment Atlantic 10 Softball Championship at the Billiken Sports Complex.
 
With the win, Fordham evens its record at 26-26 on the season and moves on to play on championship Saturday against an opponent to be determined at 1:00 p.m. (EDT) at the Billiken Sports Complex.
 
Beeman struck out two and allowed just the one run to record her sixth win of the year. Offensively, freshman Sadira Forcucci had the big hit, a two-run single in the seventh that gave the Rams two big insurance runs.
 
How It Happened

• For the third straight game the Rams jumped out to a first inning lead.
• With one out, Mikayla Swan walked and Nicki Sudall was hit by pitch.
• Both runners moved up a base on a wild pitch before Eva Koratsis singled to shortstop to plate Swan.
• The game remained 1-0 until the bottom of the sixth when the Flyers used a solo home run to knot the game at one.
• Fordham responded with three in the top of the seven to take the 4-1 lead.
• With one out, Morgan Volgraf, Victoria Klimaszewski, and Neleh Nogay walked to load the bases and, one out later, Sudall was hit by a pitch to give the Rams a 2-1 lead.
• Forcucci followed with a single to right center to deliver Klimaszewski and Nogay to make it a 4-1 game.
• Beeman allowed a leadoff single in the bottom of the frame but got the next Dayton hitter to ground into a 4-6-3 double play before inducing the final better to ground out to short to end the game.

Notes

• Beeman's complete game is her fifth of the season and the 47^th of her career, tying her with Devon Miller for fourth on the Fordham all-time list.
• Beeman has now started 69 career games, tying her with Rachel Gillan for eighth the on Fordham career list
• Beeman's career ERA drops to 2.53, eighth among all Fordham pitchers.
• Nogay has 250 career hits, fourth on the Fordham career hits list, one shy of Allison Twarowski who sits in third.
• Nogay leads the Atlantic 10 this year with 68 hits and is tops in the conference with a .391 batting average and with 49 runs scored.
• Nogay's .374 career batting average would be a school record (current record is her .367 career average entering this year).
• Nogay had a nine-game hitting streak snapped though she did reach base twice via walk and scored a run.
• Nogay is second in the A-10 and seventh in the nation with 34 stolen bases on the year, while she ranks sixth nationally with 0.69 stolen bases per game.
• Nogay holds the Fordham record for career stolen bases with 117 after breaking the previous mark of 85 earlier this season. She became just the sixth active player in all of Division I softball with 100 career steals, reaching triple digits against Army on Mar. 25.
• Klimaszewski had her six-game hitting streak halted and is now 3-for-7 with six RBI in the three Atlantic 10 Championship games.
• The Ram offense leads the league with 416 hits as a team, with seven different Rams posting 30 or more hits individually, and they lead the league with a .290 team batting average.
• Fordham is now 48-31 all-time in Atlantic 10 Championship games, 4-1 against Loyola Chicago.
• The Rams have walked 26 times and have been hit by a pitch five times at the championship.

What's Next?

• The Rams will await the results of the third game today to discover their opponent for Saturday's championship final that starts at 1:00 p.m. (EDT)
• Saint Joseph's, Dayton, and Loyola Chicago are all still alive in the championship.