Softball | May 3, 2017
PHILADELPHIA – The La Salle softball team hosts Rider on Wednesday in its final nonconference game of the season.
Rider Broncs (6-39) at La Salle Explorers (19-24)
Wednesday, May 3 | 3 PM | West Campus Field
LIVE STATS
Scouting the Explorers
-La Salle took the opening game of the series at Massachusetts over the weekend before falling by one run in each of the final two games.
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Michelle Hagarty hit her 27th career home run to tie Megan Hodgson for the all-time program record on Saturday. The senior is also third in program history with 104 runs scored.
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Marlo Roadcap is third in the Atlantic 10 with 141 strikeouts, and is second the league in strikeouts per seven innings with 8.4.
-As a team, the Explorers have committed the fewest errors in the Atlantic 10 this season with just 42 in 43 games.
Scouting the Broncs
-Rider has lost 14 straight games heading into Wednesday's contest. The Broncs will look for their first win since a 5-0 defeat of Farleigh Dickinson on April 12.
-The Broncs are last in the MAAC in hitting this season with a .205 team average. Monica Clark is the team's leading hitter with a .246 average.
-The Rider pitching staff has a 6.43 ERA in 271.0 innings pitched this season, which is 10
th out of 11 teams in the MAAC.