BOSTON – Looking to remain perfect against in-state competition, the Boston University softball team will visit Harvard on Thursday (April 11) with first pitch set for 4 p.m. on ESPN+. The teams were originally scheduled to play on Tuesday (April 9) but the game was postponed due to inclement weather.
The Terriers are currently 5-0 with a three-game sweep against Holy Cross, a 3-1 win over UMass and 3-2 victory against Boston College. They are coming off a Patriot League weekend series win at Lehigh in which they posted a pair of 2-0 victories before dropping a 1-0 decision to the Mountain Hawks on Sunday. Harvard is 1-1 this year against the Patriot League with 9-8 (11) win over Bucknell and 6-4 loss at Holy Cross.
TERRIER TIDBITS
- The Terriers are 2-7 in true road games this year following the trip to Lehigh ... Five of the losses are by a combined seven runs, including a 4-2 defeat at then-No. 14 Arkansas.
- BU is batting .238 as a team with an 18-11 advantage in homers and 6-2 lead in triples while holding opponents to .233.
- Senior Emily Morrow leads the Terriers at .318 with a .402 on-base percentage.
- Senior Alex Heinen broke the school record for career RBIs (141) over the weekend ... She leads the team in both RBIs (24) and homers (7).
- Freshman Aliyah Huerta-Leipner (.243) is second at 18 RBIs while leading the team with 19 runs scored.
- Defensively, the Terriers rank 63rd nationally with a 0.967 save percentage while posting the 22nd best ERA at 2.08.
- Sophomore Ali DuBois (14-7, 1.32 ERA) is holding opponents to a .213 average with 131 strikeouts in 127.1 innings and hasn't allowed an earned run in 28.2 innings.
- Freshman Emily Gant (5-7, 2.00 ERA) owns 103 strikeouts in 87.1 innings and hasn't allowed an earned run in 18.1 innings with opponents batting .235.
SCOUTING HARVARD
- The Crimson have won five of the last seven games after winning only one of the previous nine ... Harvard is 5-1 at home with a sweep against Brown and 2-1 performance against Columbia this past weekend.
- Harvard is batting .272 as a team with a 13-11 advantage in homers while holding opponents to .302 ... Teams lead in both doubles (43-33) and stolen bases (50-34) against the Crimson.
- Trina Hoang is one of four batting over .300 at a team-high .333 with Meagan Lantz close behind at .325 ... Both own 10 RBIs apiece.
- Rhianna Rich (.282) leads the Crimson with 19 runs scored, while Morgan Melito (.246) has three homers, five doubles and team-high 18 RBIs.
- Katie Duncan (7-3, 2.94 ERA) has tallied 47 strikeouts in 71.1 innings while holding opponents to .295 ... Grace Krantz (5-4, 4.84 ERA) and Alissa Hiener (0-6, 5.79 ERA) have combined for 15 starts.
SERIES HISTORY
- BU owns a 25-14 all-time advantage in the series dating back to 1989 and is 13-8 at Harvard.
- The teams haven't met since BU claimed a 6-2 road win in 2015 due to inclement weather canceling the matchup each of the last three years.
