>> Softball is beginning the 2025 Northeast Conference schedule with a home series against Stonehill on March 14-15.
. All three games will be live streamed on
Stonehill is 5-7 this season and will play Ohio University on Thursday before facing Saint Francis. The Skyhawks played Dayton on Wednesday, falling 8-3. Stonehill was selected sixth in the NEC Preseason Coaches' Poll.
Currently, Grace Conaway leads Stonehill with a .400 batting average. Harper Sullivan leads hits and RBIs with eight and six, respectively. Pitching 21 innings so far this season, Alexa Hospodar has two wins and an ERA of 6.33. Isabella Therrien leads the Skyhawks with 32 putouts.
LAST TIME WE MET THE SKYHAWKS
Saint Francis is 6-0 against Stonehill since the North Easton, Mass. program joined the Northeast Conference before the 2022-23 academic year.
The Red Flash defeated the Skyhawks 12-3 (6 inn.), 3-0 and 1-0 during last year's series in North Easton. In the 3-0 and 1-0 wins,
Olivia Ulam went 3-for-6 with two runs scored, one double and a solo home run. Saint Francis has shut out Stonehill in four of the last six meetings.
LAST TIME OUT
Saint Francis fell to Merrimack, 5-4, in last weekend's Ohio State Tournament.
The Red Flash scored all four runs in the fourth inning.
Addie Smith started the scoring with an RBI double, allowing
Sofia Zielinski to score. With Smith on third and
Annabelle Farmer on second,
Hannah Bendle singled to right field for Smith to go home.
Savannah Nash reached first on an error, giving Farmer and Bendle the opportunity to score unearned runs to tie the game before the Warriors scored in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead.
UP NEXT
The Red Flash will face Robert Morris in a doubleheader on March 18 in Moon Township, Pa.
