Softball Falls to Ole Miss in NCAA Regional Elimination Game, 9-4

Saturday, May 16

Lubbock, Texas

9:20 p.m. ET

Boston University

47-15

Ole Miss - Lubbock Regional Elimination G2

36-25

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Ole Miss	2	0	3	0	4	0	0	9	14	1
Boston U	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	5	0

Photo taken from behind outfield wall of Ole Miss pitching toward home plate with Kylie Doherty leading at second base

Softball Falls to Ole Miss in NCAA Regional Elimination Game, 9-4

May 16, 2026 | Softball

Box Score Coach Waters-Ricard Postgame

LUBBOCK, Texas - The Boston University softball team battled with Ole Miss for the second time in as many days and came up short by a score of 9-4 on Saturday evening (May 16) in the NCAA Lubbock Regional at Tracy Sellers Field. With the doubleheader split that included an earlier 10-2 (5) win over Marist, the Terriers' season comes to an end with a record of 47-15.

Ole Miss never trailed in the game but the Terriers threatened to go on top in three different innings before the Rebels put together a four-run fifth to break open a one-run game and reach Sunday's Regional Final against No. 11 national seed Texas Tech.

Reigning Patriot League Player of the Year and junior Kylie Doherty went 3-for-3 at the plate, including her 27th home run of the season, and scored two runs for the Terriers while sophomore Kieren McHugh added an RBI single. Senior Megan Coyle earned a hit and a run.

Three-time Patriot League Pitcher of the Year and senior Kasey Ricard closed out her prolific career with her second complete game of the day and finished the season with a record of 33-8 to leave the field as the NCAA's active wins leader across all three divisions at 107-27.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Rebels grabbed the lead in the top of the first with a two-out single and two-run homer.
BU struck right back in the bottom half with two runs off two hits, including McHugh's two-out RBI hit up the middle, and a fielding error.
Following a scoreless second inning, Ole Miss pull ahead for good with a one-out hit-by-pitch and two-run homer to right in the third.
The Rebels added another run during the third thanks to a double and two-out RBI single to left.
After Doherty led off the bottom half by launching the first pitch to center, Coyle and Lyons kept the pressure on Ole Miss by earning back-to-back walks.
Junior Sophie Naivar then loaded the bases on a one-out hit-by-pitch, and senior Olivia DeLong followed up by earning an RBI walk.
Ole Miss made a pitching change that led to back-to-back swinging strikeouts to remain ahead, 5-4.
After both teams stranded runners on base during the fourth, the Rebels delivered the decisive blow in the fifth with four runs off three hits, including a controversial lead-off double down the left field line and two-out three-run homer to right.
Trying to claim a run-rule decision in the sixth, the Rebels recorded three consecutive one-out singles, but Ricard ended the threat on a swinging strikeout and fly out to center.
BU loaded the bases on three walks with one out, but Ole Miss kept the 9-4 lead by turning a line out double play to third.
In her final inning pitching for the Terriers, Ricard quickly retired the side on an infield pop up, fly out and ground out.
Ole Miss also had a quick 1-2-3 to eliminate BU, 9-4.

RECORDS BROKEN

Ricard, Coyle, DeLong, Brooke Deppiesse, Haley Ganino and Aimee Metz finished as the Northeast region's all-time winningest NCAA Division I class over a four-year stretch with 191 combined victories.
Ricard finished her career ranked No. 1 all-time at BU in wins (107), strikeouts (933), no-hitters (6), innings pitched (850.2) and pitching appearances (176) while also finishing second in shutouts at 42 total. She also finished atop the Patriot League rankings for wins, strikeouts and shutouts.
Doherty's 27 homers on the season and 47 total are both BU and PL records. Her 89 RBIs are BU and PL single-season bests as well.
Led by 11th-year head coach Ashley Waters, BU finished with program records in batting average (.335), slugging percentage (.538), on-base percentage (.443), runs scored (473), hits (549), doubles (92), homers (68) and RBIs (415). As evidence of the Terriers' incredible display on the offensive end this season, the 473 runs scored topped the 2024 squad's previous record by 117 runs.