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In the Hofstra softball team’s first game in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament, the Pride, who entered the CAA Tournament as the No. 2 seed, defeated the No. 3 seed Towson Tigers 9-4 in Virginia on Wednesday afternoon.
Junior Courtney Scarpato’s three-run homerun in the fifth inning propelled the 24th-ranked Hofstra softball team to a 5-2 victory over the Stony Brook University Seawolves in the “Battle of Long Island” on Thursday evening at Stony Brook.
The Hofstra Pride softball team came into Saturday’s doubleheader against the Drexel Dragons looking to extend its 13-game winning streak, stay undefeated in the Colonial Athletic Association and prove that they deserved to be the 25th-ranked team in the nation.
On Saturday afternoon at Bill Edwards Stadium in Hempstead, the Pride (33-8, 14-0 CAA) did just that, as they picked up 9-0 and 11-2 victories, both in just five innings, over Drexel (17-21-2, 3-11 CAA) to extend its winning streak to 15 games.
The Hofstra softball team dominated the University of Delaware on the road to complete the Colonial Athletic Association series sweep with a 14-4 victory on Sunday afternoon.
The bats woke up in a big way for the Hofstra softball team on Saturday, as the Pride launched three home runs over two games to pick up a pair of wins over Boston University and the University of Massachusetts at Bill Edwards Stadium.
