MOUNT ST. MARY'S (12-34, 3-9 NEC) vs. ROBERT MORRIS (15-28, 5-3 NEC)
Saturday, April 28, 2016, 1 pm (DH)
Our Lady of the Meadows Field, Emmitsburg, Md.
LIVE STATS
MOUNT UPDATE: The Mountaineers lost both ends of Wednesday's doubleheader at Delaware to fall to 12-34 on the season. Shea McFarland went 3-for-6 while Jessica Greenewald was 3-for-7 in the twinbill. Marisa Mayes leads the Mountaineers with a .362 average while Rachel Heinze is hitting .333 with team-highs of 17 home runs, 36 RBI, 39 runs scored and 11 stolen bases. In the circle, Sam Lichtner (4-12, 6.28 ERA), Marian Ruf (6-11, 6.38 ERA) and Katie Olson (2-7, 6.47 ERA) have pretty much split the innings this season.
ABOUT ROBERT MORRIS: Robert Morris swept Bryant in a Northeast Conference doubleheader last Sunday to move to 15-28 overall and 5-3 in the NEC. Kaitlin Ellzy and Laura Coulter combined for a shutout in the 1-0 win in the opening game of the twinbill. Kristen Gabelt doubled in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth to lead the Colonials to a 4-3 win in game two. Jordan Gurganus leads the NEC with a .376 average while adding a team-high four triples. Ashley Gerhart is hitting .296 while Haileigh Stocks leads the team with six home runs. Ellzy is 9-12 with a 3.30 ERA in 31 appearances with 78 strikeouts in 127.1 innings of work.
THE ALL-TIME SERIES: Robert Morris has won 15 of the past 16 games against the Mount, and holds a 40-7 lead in the series that dates back to 1992. The Mount is 6-16 at home against the Colonials, including a split in the last matchup at Our Lady of the Meadows Field in 2014. Last year, the Mount lost both games of the doubleheader (7-3 and 11-6) at Robert Morris.
LAST YEAR'S SERIES: The Mount dropped both ends of its NEC doubleheader at Robert Morris last season, falling 7-3 in the opening game before dropping game two, 11-6. Rachel Teti hit a pair of home runs in the two games, while Rachel Heinze, Niki Gonzalez and Tori Belloc also added long balls. In the opening game, Kristen Gabelt hit a two-run homer in the first and a solo shot in the third to spark Robert Morris to an early lead. Trailing 4-0, back-to-back-to-back home runs from Teti, Gonzalez and Belloc cut the deficit to 4-3, but RMU scored three times in the fifth to seal the win. In game two, the Mountaineers jumped to a 4-1 on a Teti solo home run and a Heinze three-run blast in the top of the second. Robert Morris countered with an eight-run second inning to secure the win.
SENIOR DAY: The Mountaineers will be celebrating Senior Day against Robert Morris, honoring Megan Baker, Holly Buckel, Rachel Gavigan and Marisa Mayes prior to the first game of the doubleheader.
HOME RUN CHASE: Junior Rachel Heinze has 17 home runs this season, breaking the Northeast Conference single-season record. Heinze's 17 homers are also a Mount single-season mark, topping Liz Christiansen's 11 home runs in 2010. She now has 24 career home runs at the Mount, one shy of the school career record of 25 set by Christiansen (2009-13). Heinze leads Saint Francis University's Jordan Seneca by one home run in the NEC home run chase.
CAREER CHARTS: Holly Buckel is currently tied for fourth all-time at the Mount with 33 career steals…Buckel has 10 stolen bases this season, the third time in her career she has had 10 stolen bases…Rachel Gavigan is 6th all-time at the Mount with 22 career steals, ninth all-time with 473 at bats and tied for ninth with 24 doubles…Marisa Mayes has 46 hits this season, the 9th-best single-season mark at the Mount.
UP NEXT: The Mountaineers conclude the 2016 season at home against Wagner on Saturday, May 7. The doubleheader will start at 1 pm at Our Lady of the Meadows Field on campus.
