Seven-Sport Homestand Begins This Week For Irish Softball – Notre Dame Athletics

Notre Dame to host Central Michigan Tuesday, Michigan State Wednesday
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The College of Notre Dame softball workforce (19-27, 8-13 ACC) returns to Melissa Prepare dinner Stadium for a seven-game homestand to finish the common season, beginning Tuesday towards Central Michigan and Wednesday versus Michigan State. Each video games will begin at 5:00 p.m. ET and be broadcast on ACCNX. Admission is free to all common season Irish softball video games.
The Irish have had loads of success traditionally towards each Central Michigan and Michigan State. Notre Dame is 6-2 all-time towards the Chippewas and 3-0 in South Bend, together with final April’s 8-4 win. In opposition to the Spartans, the Irish are 13-1 all-time and 6-0 at dwelling. Notre Dame has gained the previous eight matchups towards Michigan State, with the final loss coming in 1995. The Irish edged out a 4-3 win final season up in East Lansing.
Notre Dame is coming off a sequence victory this previous weekend towards Syracuse, profitable the primary two video games. The Irish climbed a number of spots within the ACC Standings and are actually tenth within the convention with their eight ACC wins.
The freshman trio of Lily Hagan, Hayden Kyne and Ava Zachary proceed to excel of their first collegiate seasons. Hagan leads the workforce with six dwelling runs this 12 months in simply 44 at bats. Kyne, who hit a homer Sunday towards Syracuse, is hitting .337 on the 12 months with 4 homers and 23 RBI. She stole her first profession base over the weekend. Zachary has been Notre Dame’s greatest participant offensively, main the workforce in a number of classes (batting common, doubles, dwelling further base hits, RBI, slugging, on base, sacrifice hits). 
Tuesday and Wednesday mark the primary two video games of a seven-game, nine-day stretch of Irish softball at Melissa Prepare dinner Stadium. This weekend marks the ultimate ACC sequence towards Boston School, with Senior Day being Saturday, earlier than closing out the common season subsequent week with a pair of midweek video games.
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