Softball Welcomes Monmouth on Tuesday

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers softball takes on Monmouth in its first nonconference mid-week contest of the 2022 campaign on Tuesday with first pitch set for 3 p.m. at the Rutgers Softball Complex.

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ABOUT THE SCARLET KNIGHTS

Rutgers is coming off its first Big Ten weekend in which the Scarlet Knights went 1-2 against the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
RU won its first-ever contest against Minnesota in the 9-2 opener on Friday and captured its first conference opening victory since 2015.
The Golden Gophers, who went to the Women's World Series in 2019, took the second game 11-7 and won the series with a 10-3 victory on Sunday. In both games, Kobie Hura hit fifth-inning home runs to extend play for the Scarlet Knights.
Gabrielle Callaway was named Big Ten Co-Player of the Week as she finished out the three-game series hitting .714 (5-for-7) including three doubles and a grand slam home run run. She collected three runs and seven RBIs. She was the fourth Scarlet Knight awarded a weekly honor from the league this season.
Kyleigh Sand batted .556 (5-for-9) against the Golden Gophers with five runs scored.
Rutgers softball began conference play jumping out to a 21-10 record in its best start in 41 years.

ABOUT MONMOUTH

Head Coach: Shannon Salsburg (Penn St. '98) – 358-367 (16th season)/161-126 at Monmouth State (7th season)
2022 Record: 4-21

All-Time Series: Scarlet Knights lead 32-9

Hawks to Watch:
Batting
Lindsey Baron: .342 BA, 14 runs, 27 hits, 11 doubles, 1 HR, 6 RBIs
Stavi Augur: .250 BA, 11 runs, 19 hits, 4 doubles, 2 HRs, 12 RBIs
Julia Thuer: .242 BA, 6 runs, 16 hits, 6 double, 1 HR, 11 RBIs

Pitching
Kylie Gletow: 2-9 W-L, 4.65 ERA, 81.1 IP, 34 Ks
Billie Kerwood: 2-10 W-L, 4.72 ERA, 59.1 IP, 46 Ks

FROM THE DID YOU KNOW FILES

Rutgers has had its best start to a season since 1981. The Scarlet Knights opened 2022 at 10-3 which is the best start for the programs since 1981. In 1981, Rutgers finished 28-3 overall having opened the season at 28-1 and advancing to the AIAW College World Series.
Rutgers surpassed its win total from 2021 three weeks into the season. The Scarlet Knights picked up win number nine on Feb. 25 in a 3-2 eight-inning victory over Siena during The Spring Games.
Rutgers put together an eight-game win streak from Feb. 18-26, the longest for the Scarlet Knights since 1994. During the eight-game win streak, Rutgers went 5-0 at the Pirate Clash picking up a win over host ECU along with a pair of victories against Wagner and Colgate. The previous streak had RU winning 10 games between April 5-18, 1994.
Junior Jaden Vickers has three games this season with double-digit strikeouts. Her 16 K's against Princeton on Feb. 25 are the most in Scarlet Knight individual records dating back to 2004 and tied for the 15th most in a game this season in Division I. She is currently ninth in career strikeouts (208) and tied for ninth in season strikeouts (122).
Classmate Ashley Hitchcock is eighth all-time in strikeouts with 223 K's in her three seasons "On The Banks".
RU's catcher redshirt junior Katie Wingert is currently sixth all-time in home runs with 22.
The 16 runs to open up the Rutgers Softball Tournament in the 16-0 victory over UMES were the most by the Scarlet Knights since an 18-9 victory over LIU Brooklyn back on April 28, 2015.
Sophomore Kayla Bock collected five RBIs in the 9-8 win over George Washington and Gabrielle Callaway posted five RBIs in a 9-2 win over Minnesota in the Big Ten opener. Both were the most by a Scarlet Knight in a game this season and most since Katie Wingert vs. Morgan State on March 16, 2019.

BIG TEN PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Rutgers sophomore Kyleigh Sand was named the Big Ten Softball Co-Player of the Week for the week ending March 20.
The shortstop guided the Scarlet Knights to a 5-1 record in their first home weekend of the season hitting .619 (13-for-21) with 10 runs and eight RBIs and was 6-for-6 on stolen bases.
In a 16-0 victory over UMES, Sand scored two runs in RU's nine-run first inning and added an RBI single in the Scarlet Knights' six-run second inning.
In the second game with the Hawks, the Scarlet Knights opened the second inning reached on with a bunt and scored to give RU a 2-0 edge before falling 4-3 to the Hawks in game two.
Sand helped Rutgers rebound the next day by batting .875 with seven hits, five RBIs, four runs and her first career home run in a pair of victories.
The Norco, California product was 4-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and runs scored in a 5-2 victory over Saint Peter's. She captured her first career home run to lead off the game against the Peacocks and proceeded to add an RBI single to tie up the game at 2-2 in the third. The Scarlet Knight then led off the sixth with her fourth hit of the contest and later scored the first of RU's three runs that lifted the Scarlet Knights to the win.
Sand was then 3-for-4 with a trio of RBIs and a pair of runs in a five-inning 8-0 victory against Fairfield. Once again she was responsible for the first run in a game where Rutgers scored every inning. She also added a run in the fourth making it a 6-0 ballgame.
In an 8-0 win over Holy Cross she walked in the first of four Scarlet Knight runs in the fourth and later scored giving RU a 5-0 edge. Sand collected a base hit to kick off the sixth inning bringing her aboard to score on Gabrielle Callaway's walk-off home run.
Sand capped off the weekend with a two-out, ninth-inning walk-off to slay the Drexel Dragons in a 4-3 win. The Scarlet Knight tied the game up at 1-1 in the third reaching base on a bunt and using her speed to come home from second base on a Callaway single. In the ninth, she took a 2-2 count into right field to drive in the game-winning run.

BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK - PART ONE

Infielder Maddie Lawson was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week for the week ending Feb. 20 after leading Rutgers to a 5-0 weekend at the Pirate Clash.
Lawson hit .500 with three multiple-hit games along with six RBIs and two runs scored.
The rookie opened the weekend going 2-for-3 with three RBIs and two runs in a 13-3 run-rule victory over Wagner. The Scarlet Knight launched her first collegiate home run in the bottom of the fifth to give RU the victory. She also added a run in RU's seven-run third inning.
In a 4-3 win over host ECU, the Mebane, North Carolina native was 2-for-3. She drove in RU's first two runs of the game as Rutgers fought back from an early 1-0 deficit against the Pirates.
The tournament continued with Lawson going 1-for-3 in a 5-0 victory over Wagner and 3-for-3 in an extra-inning 5-4 win over Colgate. She once again helped Rutgers out of an early 1-0 deficit with an RBI base hit to put RU up 2-1 after one inning of play.
Lawson is the first Scarlet Knight to earn weekly Big Ten honors since Anyssa Illiopoulos' conference Player of the Week award back on May 6, 2019. Additionally, she is the first RU rookie to earn a conference Freshman of the Week accolade since teammate Katie Wingert collected hers on April 19, 2019.

BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE WEEK - PART TWO

Maddie Lawson was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week for the second consecutive week on Mar. 1 batting .353 (6-for-17) in Rutgers' 4-1 weekend at The Spring Games with three RBIs and three runs along with eight putouts and five assists.
Lawson is the first Scarlet Knight to win more than one Big Ten weekly award.
The rookie went 1-for-3 against Princeton opening up scoring for Rutgers in the fourth inning of the Scarlet Knights' 5-0 victory. She connected for an RBI single for the game's first run and added the third of four runs later that inning.
The Mebane, North Carolina native had a sacrifice fly in the first inning against Siena putting her squad up 1-0 en route to a 3-2 win.
In the extra-inning 4-3 victory over FGCU, Lawson was 3-for-4. She was the Scarlet Knights' first run of the game in the second and added an RBI single in the sixth to put Rutgers ahead 3-0.
The Scarlet Knight was also 1-for-4 with a run in the 10-7 setback to North Florida and 1-for-4 in a 5-0 win versus Cornell.

PUERTO VALLARTA CHALLENGE ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM

Two Scarlet Knights landed on the Puerto Vallarta Challenge - Gabrielle Callaway & Jaden Vickers - during opening weekend.
Callaway, a graduate student left fielder, finished the tournament hitting .400 with six hits and four RBIs. She was 3-for-4 with a double and her 13th career doubles in RU's 6-2 win over Lamar. Callaway also had two RBIs and two stolen bases against Memphis.
Vickers, meanwhile, pitched 19.0 innings with a 2.95 ERA and pair of wins over the Cardinals where she just gave up just three hits. The junior lefthander struck out 11 batters, including six Tigers in her 2022 debut, and held the opposition to a .167 average at the plate

UP NEXT

The Rutgers softball team travels to Nebraska for a three-game series in Lincoln, Nebraska beginning Friday, April 1.

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