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The Hofstra Pride softball team dropped their fourth, and final, game of the St. Pete/Clearwater Elite Invitational 11-3 to the University of Utah Utes in six innings on Feb. 17.
The Hofstra softball team began the second day of the St. Pete Clearwater Elite Invitational falling to No. 3 Oklahoma University Sooners in five innings with a final score of 17-3. In the second game of their double header the Pride fell to No. 20 Oklahoma State University, 13-2.
The Hofstra softball team opened their season Friday, Feb. 15, against the No. 18-ranked University of Kentucky Wildcats in the St. Pete Clearwater Elite Invitational down in Florida. The Pride and starting pitcher Mackenzie Suto fell 8-0 to the Wildcats in five innings. This was the first time that the Pride and the Wildcats crossed paths on the softball field. It was also Suto’s debut in a Hofstra uniform.
The 2018 season for the Hofstra Pride softball team came to a devastating end Saturday evening with a loss against No. 9 University of South Carolina, 5-4.
On the brink of elimination, Hofstra's Sophie Dandola delivers the NCAA's first no hitter in the regional round of postseason play since 2013, earning the Pride a 6-0 win against UNCG Saturday afternoon.
The Hofstra Pride softball team, which entered the NCAA tournament as the No. 24 seed, fell to Liberty University 2-0 in 10 innings of play at the NCAA regional opener in South Carolina on Friday night.
The Hofstra softball team will be in Columbia, South Carolina this weekend for the regional round of the NCAA Softball Tournament hosted by the University of South Carolina.
The Hofstra Pride softball team continued their long ball tactics to earn the 2018 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship as three home runs propelled the team to a 7-4 victory over the top-ranked James Madison Dukes to claim the conference title on Friday afternoon, May 11, in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
After defeating the Towson Tigers 9-4 on Wednesday afternoon in Game 1 of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship Tournament, the Pride took on longstanding rivals, the James Madison University Dukes, at Veterans Memorial Park and came out victorious 9-6.
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.
Hofstra softball wrapped up its final game of the regular season against Towson University on Saturday afternoon with a 4-2 win in Maryland. The Pride finished the regular with 37 wins and 12 losses overall and a record of 17-4 in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play.
The Pride began their final series of the regular season against Towson University on Friday in Maryland, splitting the doubleheader in a 4-3 loss in the first game, and a 12-0 win in the second.
A three-run homer from Keirstin Roadcap proved to be the fatal blow as Hofstra fell to the Dukes of James Madison University 11-8 on Sunday afternoon, sealing the sweep for JMU in dramatic fashion.
The Hofstra Pride softball team saw their seventeen-game winning streak come to an end on Saturday afternoon in Harrisonburg, Virginia, against James Madison University. Hofstra was swept by the Dukes in a doubleheader, 9-8 and 6-3.
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 softball team celebrated Senior Day in style on Sunday afternoon, making quick work of Drexel University with a 8-0 mercy-rule victory, the Pride’s 16th victory in a row.
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 extended its winning streak to a remarkable 13 games after a 13-4 mercy-rule victory over the LIU Brooklyn Blackhawks on Tuesday evening in Brooklyn.
The Hofstra softball team extended its win streak to 12 games after sweeping Wagner College in a doubleheader, 2-0 and 16-1, at Bill Edwards Stadium on Tuesday. The Pride have won 20 of their last 21 contests and improve to 30-8 on the 2018 campaign.
On any team that packs as much pop as this year’s Hofstra softball team, it would typically be hard to single out one player as excelling ahead of the pack. Each member of Hofstra’s lineup could be an opposing pitcher’s nightmare on any given day; if there’s a weakness to be found anywhere in the Pride’s formidable offense, the rest of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) has yet to find it.
Yet, despite the exceptional balance that Hofstra displays at the plate, there’s one name that always seems to find the box scores – one name that seems to stand out time and time again as the Pride continue down the road in what has been a sensational season: Brielle Pietrafesa.
