Softball Set To Battle No. 18 Michigan in Final Series

Friday, May 14

Ann Arbor, Mich.

4:00 PM (ET)

Rutgers University

Michigan

Photo by: Steve Hockstein

May 13 | Softball

ABOUT THE WEEKEND

TV TIME

Saturday's doubleheader will air live on the Big Ten Network with Lisa Byington and Jennie Ritter on the call.
The game can be streamed with the Fox Sports app.

ABOUT THE SCARLET KNIGHTS

Graduate Student Gabrielle Callaway and sophomore Payton Lincavage have continued to be the mainstays at the plate for the Scarlet Knights, both hitting just under .300 heading into the final series of the year.
Lincavage tops the stat sheet hitting .299 with five doubles and three home runs along with a team-leading 22 runs and 17 RBIs.
Callaway, meanwhile, is batting .286 leading RU in hits (36), doubles (7), home runs (4) and total bases (55).
Catcher Kiersten Withstandley currently holds a 10-game on-base streak and entering the weekend hitting .235 with a pair of doubles and a triple along with eight runs and 13 RBIs.
Sophomore Ashley Hitchcock continues to lead the hurlers with 121.1 innings inside the circle having made 31 appearances with 21 starts. She leads RU with 81 strikeouts. She earned the win in last Friday's come-from-behind victory over Maryland.
Graduate student Izzy Berouty, meanwhile, has logged 86.0 innings with 15 starts in her 27 appearances. She's sent down 32 batters on strikes.

ABOUT MICHIGAN

The Wolverines welcome the Scarlet Knights with a 32-6 record and ranked at No. 18 in the USA Today/NFCA, ESPN.com/USA Softball and D1Softball Polls. Michigan recently had its 11-game win streak snapped in a 7-3 loss to No. 23 Minnesota on Sunday.
Lexie Blair leads Michigan and is second in the Big Ten hitting .415 on the season. Her 53 hits and 35 runs scored are the second-most in league play. She has also registered 12 doubles, six home runs and 22 RBIs.
Lou Allen is second Wolverine stat sheet and fourth in the Big Ten with a .364 batting average. She leads the Big Ten with 38 RBIs and is third in home runs with nine. Allen has logged 43 hits, including nine doubles.
Alex Storako holds a 0.93 ERA with seven shutouts in 128.0 innings. She is 19-3 with 11 complete games in 24 appearances and 18 starts. She has hurled 236 strikeouts.
Meghan Seaubien has collected a 1.25 ERA and 13-3 record. She has pitched 12 complete games and 123.1 innings in 23 appearances and 19 starts. She has totaled 117 strikeouts.

MARYLAND SERIES RECAP

Rutgers softball opened the Maryland series at the RU Softball Complex by returning to the win column snapping a four-game losing streak.
It was a big game for the seniors playing in their finale home series as Kiana Workman posted her first home run of the season to kick off the come-back in the 3-1 win. Hailey Hoklotubbe scored the go-ahead run and Anyssa Iliopoulos's sacrifice fly pushed in an insurance run.
The Scarlet Knight comeback came in the sixth. Workman led off taking an 0-1 count over the fence in right-center to tie up the contest. RU proceeded to load the bases allowing Withstandley to send home a run after getting hit by a pitch. On the next at-bat, Iliopoulos flew out to center, but the fly ball allowed Payton Lincavage to tag up from third for the 3-1 lead.
Workman finished the opener 1-for-2, while Leilani Chavez added a hit appearing as a pinch hitter.
Sophomore Ashley Hitchcock earned her fifth win going the distance for the fifth time this season. She fanned five marking the second-most strikeouts by the right-hander in 2021 and most since Mar. 28.
Fifth-year senior Hailey Hoklotubbe finished the weekend hitting .444 (4-for-9), including her first career home run, and scored a pair of runs.
Workman batted .273 with a double and home run and two runs scored.
Lincavage collected two runs batted in and a double.
Hitchcock totaled 18.1 innings inside the circle with 13 strikeouts.