BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (April 25, 2019) - Rutgers softball travels for its final regular season road games at Indiana for a three-game Big Ten series beginning on Friday at 6 p.m. on Big Ten Network, with Mike Monaco and Sammy Nettling on the call.

Winning seven of their last eight Big Ten games, the Scarlet Knights (24-20, 8-9) are currently riding their best eight-game conference stretch since winning 11 straight games in the Atlantic 10 in 1990. They sit in sixth place in the Big Ten standings with six conference games remaining.

The Hoosiers (31-18, 6-11) are right behind in the standings in a four-way tie for seventh place. Indiana dropped two of three games at Rutgers to conclude the 2018 regular season last spring, with the Scarlet Knights outscoring the Hoosiers, 12-7, over the three games behind three RBIs from then-freshman Myah Moy, and a complete-game shutout from then-junior starting pitcher Whitney Jones in the series opener.
 

THE SLATE | All Times Eastern
Fri. 4/26	Game 1	6 p.m. on BTN
Sat. 4/27	Game 2	2 p.m.
Sun. 4/28	Game 3	1 p.m.

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HEAD-TO-HEAD


KNIGHT NOTES
Unprecedented Success: By the Numbers
• Winning seven of their last eight Big Ten games, the Scarlet Knights are currently riding their best eight-game conference stretch since winning 11 straight games in the Atlantic 10 in 1990 (29 years).
• Rutgers won five straight Big Ten games for the first time since April 20-24, 2016.
• With three wins at Penn State, the Scarlet Knights swept a three-game Big Ten series for the first time since taking three against Indiana at home April 22-24, 2016.
• At No. 82, RU is in the Top 100 of the RPI rankings for the first time since April 12, 2015 (No. 70).

• Rutgers erased a 6-0 deficit with seven unanswered runs to top Maryland, 7-6, in eight innings on Tuesday to sweep the midweek doubleheader. Freshman catcher Katie Wingert ended the game by hitting Rutgers' first walk-off home run since 2015. Her 15 homers now rank 20th in the NCAA.

• Wingert was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week on April 15 after hitting three home runs and producing six RBIs in the Penn State sweep. Wingert was the Scarlet Knights' first Big Ten Freshman of the Week since 2015 and Rutgers' first overall Big Ten weekly honoree since 2016. Four out of her last five home runs are of the go-ahead variety in wins at Ohio State and Penn State, and Tuesday against Maryland. The rookie is slashing .307/.392/.709 overall and leads the Big Ten with 15 home runs. Defensively, she has a .973 fielding percentage from behind the plate, and has thrown out nine runners with a 73% stolen base-allowed rate.

• Senior shortstop Jess Hughes is ranked eighth among the NCAA Division I softball active leaders in runs scored with 194. She also ranks eighth with 135 career walks drawn.

• Freshmen have Rutgers' two highest batting averages through 17 Big Ten games in Wingert (.292) and second baseman Aleah Marra (.273). Overall, Marra is at .256 with 16 runs, nine doubles and 20 RBIs.

• In the 3-0 win at Penn State, freshman pitcher Corah Price recorded Rutgers' first seven-inning one-hitter since Alyssa Landrith beat UTSA on Feb. 15, 2014. Price faced the minimum 21 batters in the masterpiece. The rookie leads the staff in innings (142.2), ERA (2.85), WHIP (1.11) and strikeouts (90). Price's nine strikeouts against Robert Morris was the program's most in a game since nine on March 18, 2016.

• First-year head coach Kristen Butler won her first game at the helm of the Scarlet Knights on Saturday, Feb. 9 against Jacksonville State. A former SEC Player of the Year and record-setting professional softball player in the United States and Japan, Butler has spent the last four seasons turning around the program as head coach at Toledo while earning the 2018 Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year honor.

TRENDING
• Eleven of Rutgers' games have been decided by one run (RU is 6-5).
• Rutgers is 15-1 when scoring 6+ runs, and  2-12 when an opponent scores 6+ runs.
• Rutgers is 17-7 when scoring first and has scored first in 17 of its 22 victories.
• Rutgers has scored in the first inning 18 times, and in 12 of the last 23.
• Rutgers is 10-1 when hitting 2+ home runs and 3-0 when hitting 3+ home runs.
• Rutgers is 16-2 when leading after 5.
• Jess Hughes leads the team with 14 multi-hit games, while Katie Wingert has a team-best 11 games with multiple RBIs.

UP NEXT
The Scarlet Knights return home to host its final non-conference game of the season against LIU Brooklyn on Wednesday, May 1 at 4 p.m.