Softball Starts MAAC Play with Saturday Doubleheader Against Siena

Doubleheader #1
Series: Saint Peter's (11-15, 0-0 MAAC) vs. Siena (11-11, 0-0 MAAC)
Date: Saturday, April 2, 2022
Location: Jersey City, N.J. | Jaroschak Field
Time: 12:00 PM & 2:00 PM

Game #3
Contest: Saint Peter's (11-15, 0-0 MAAC) vs. Seton Hall (12-13, 4-5 BIG EAST)
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2022
Location: South Orange, N.J. | Essex County Mike Sheppard Sr. Field
Time: 12:00 PM

Game #4
Contest: Saint Peter's (11-15, 0-0 MAAC) vs. Bucknell (4-23, 1-2 PATRIOT)
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Location: Lewisburg, Pa. | Becker Field
Time: 4:00 PM

First Pitch

• The Saint Peter's University softball team opens Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play Saturday when they take on Siena in a doubleheader at Jaroschak Field in Jersey City. 
• The Peacocks will then step back outside MAAC play as they travel to South Orange, N.J. to face off against Seton Hall Sunday at noon and to Lewisburg, Pa., to play Bucknell University Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 PM.

Looking Back at FDU

• In their final tune-up before heading into MAAC competition, the Peacocks were unable to pick up a victory as they dropped a pair of road games at Fairleigh Dickinson University Thursday, losing game one 6-3 before falling 11-3 in the second contest.
• Junior Olyvia Smith had a huge day at the plate for the Peacocks going 4 for 7 with a pair of multi-hit games. She was the lone SPU student-athlete with multiple hits in both games.
• Fellow junior Cara McNulty continued her hot streak at the plate in game one going 2 for 3 while hitting her third home run of the season.
• Freshman Kasidy Slusser also was strong at the plate for SPU as she tallied a pair of hits in the first game of the day and hit her second collegiate big fly in game two.
• Junior Brandi Feeney recorded her first multi-hit game of the season in the second contest of the day going 2 for 3.
• Senior Katie Sciglimpaglia pushed her hitting streak to four straight games by producing a single hit in both games on the day.

Inside the Numbers

• With her four hits, Smith is now hitting a team-best .382 and has hit safely in 22 of the 26 games she has appeared in this season.
• McNulty's multi-hit game in the first contest of the day against FDU was her third in the last six games as she improved her team-high OPS to .945. She now ranks inside the top-10 in the MAAC in batting average, slugging percentage, OPS, hits, RBI and home runs.
• As a team, the Peacocks have now hit nine homers this season to top their total from the entirety of the 2021 and 2020 seasons.
• SPU will head into MAAC play Saturday with 11 wins, the most victories since recording 12 non-conference victories in the 2006 season.
• In the circle, Taylor Rondon leads the team and ranks ninth in the MAAC with a 3.00 ERA allowing just 11 earned runs in 26.0 innings.

Up Next

• After playing four games against three different teams in four days, the Peacocks will return to action next Saturday when they travel to Hamden, Ct., to take on Quinnipiac in a doubleheader at 12:00 pm.

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