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BOSTON - Resuming Patriot League action in the state of Pennsylvania, the Boston University softball team will visit Lehigh on Friday at 3:30 p.m. and then make a short drive over to Lafayette for a three-game series over the weekend.

Coming off a dominating 6-2 win over Harvard, the Terriers (9-23, 1-7 PL) and Mountain Hawks (27-6, 10-1 PL) are meeting for one game due to the originally three-game scheduled series being postponed back in March by the weather. BU made a trip to Lehigh on April 1 for a doubleheader and fell by combined score of 20-2.

Following the matchup with Lehigh, the Terriers will meet Lafayette (3-28, 1-11 PL) at 12 p.m. on Saturday for a doubleheader and then face off in the rubber game on Sunday at 12 p.m. They swept last year's series at home by a combined score of 15-3.

As BU reaches the midway point of the conference schedule, it finds itself with little room for error, as only the top four teams advance to the conference tournament. Bucknell is currently in the No. 4 slot at 4-5 with Holy Cross (3-6) one game behind in the standings.

TERRIER TIDBITS

· BU has not beaten an opponent from outside the state of Massachusetts since beating Seton Hall on March 14 ... The Terriers have collected a win over Harvard (6-2), UMass Lowell (7-6) and Holy Cross (9-1).

· The Terriers are batting .305 in conference games with both sophomores Moriah Connolly and Gabi Martinez both batting .500 ... Connolly went 3-of-4 with an RBI and two runs scored on Tuesday at Harvard ... Martinez tallied seven of her eight conference RBIs in one game against Army to tie a school record for RBIs in a game.

· Freshman Emma Wong leads BU in hitting (.407) and in on-base percentage at .463 ... Junior Lauren Hynes (.304 avg) is close behind at .455 ob% as a result of owning a team-high 19 walks ... Both Connolly (.375) and sophomore Brittany Younan (.327) have a team-high 16 stolen bases.

· Seven Terriers own at least 10 RBIs this season ... Senior Emily Felbaum (.236 avg) is second behind Martinez (20 RBIs) at 16 and is also tied with freshman Jilee Schanda at six doubles.

· BU has a team ERA of 5.23, which rises to 5.92 in PL action ... Sophomore Makinna Akers (4-6, 3.95 ERA) has lowered her ERA to 3.36 in the PL games, striking out 12 batters in 23 innings ... She is holding PL opponents to .337 batting average.

SCOUTING LEHIGH

· The defending PL regular season champion Mountain Hawks have won three of their last four games and are coming off a 7-6, 11-inning victory over Princeton ... They went 2-1 last weekend at Holy Cross with a 4-3, 12-inning loss and 4-3 victory ... Six of their 10 conference wins have been run-rule victories, including two against Bucknell and two against Lafayette.

· As a team, Lehigh is batting .311 while holding opponents to .220 ... Alexis Watanabe is batting a team-high .452 with Nicole Yozzo close behind at .420 avg ... Yozzo leads the Mountain Hawks with 29 runs scored and 22 stolen bases off 24 attempts.

· Jessica Calvini (.314 avg) owns three homers and 25 RBIs ... MacKenzie Velasquez is the third player above .400 at .407 with two triples ... Reigning PL Player of the Year Morgan Decker (.302 avg) has a team-high eight doubles with 20 RBIs.

· The pitching staff has relied heavily on two pitchers with reigning PL Pitcher of the Year Emily Bausher (13-4, 1.56 ERA) and Christine Campbell (12-2, 1.93 ERA) combining for 25 complete game performances and nine shutouts ... Campbell has two saves with Bausher owning the other ... Both women are holding opponents below .213 batting average ... Bausher has struck out 131 batters in 112.1 innings against just 26 walks.

SCOUTING LAFAYETTE

· The Leopards are 1-11 in conference action and have lost nine of their last 10 games with the lone win coming at home against Army (4-3) ... Six of their conference losses have been run-rule decisions.

· Lafayette owns a win over UMBC (1-0) and Penn (9-5) with close defeats to league leader Lehigh (2-0), CCSU (2-0) and Hampton (1-0) ... The team is 1-8 at home.

· The offense is batting .195 and has 112 strikeouts against 42 walks while being outscored, 215-46 ... Rebecca Dvorak is the lone hitter above .232 at .262 avg with three RBIs ... Bryn Gornick (.221 avg) leads Lafayette with eight RBIs.

· The four-person pitching staff has a combined ERA of 7.29 ... Lindsey Cherry (2-10, 6.29 ERA) has 29 strikeouts in 59 innings and has held batters to a .341 average ... Stephanie Thomas (1-9, 8.47 ERA) has the second most innings pitched at 41.1 with 14 strikeouts and a team-high eight homers allowed.

UP NEXT

· After the four games, the Terriers will head into a seven-game homestand ... They will first host defending Ivy League champion Dartmouth on Tuesday (April 21) at 4 p.m. and then in-state rival UMass on Wednesday (April 22) in a doubleheader starting at 3 p.m.