LAKELAND, Fla. – After a double header competition against the Czech national team, the Southeastern women's softball team return to play Point Park University in a double header series. The Fire are 5-3 on the season, losing all three games to ranked teams. SEU looks to improve on the season and continue in the right direction.
Game Info
Southeastern (5-3) vs. Point Park University (0-0)
When: February 23
rd, 2019 | 11:45 a.m. & 2:00 p.m.
Where: Clermont, Fla.
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The First Pitch
- The Fire are 5-3 overall in the season, with three loses to ranked teams, including No. 5 Georgia Gwinnett and No. 11 Campbellsville University two times.
- SEU ranks third in the NAIA for Total Batters Struck Out (60).
- Senior pitcher from Nashville, Tennessee, Hannah Bodenhorn is averaging 9.63 strike-outs a game.
- Bodenhorn has struck out a total of 33 opponents in the past eight games, including her season-high thus far, striking out Trinity Baptist opponents 14 times.
- SEU is ranked seventh in the nation for Home Runs per Game, they are averaging one home run every game.
- Lauren Watters leads the Fire with 9 hits, and a batting average of 0.360. The sophomore from Des Moines, Iowa is ranked first in the NAIA for Fielding Percentage (1.000).
- Junior, Bailee Moll leads Southeastern in RBIs with a total of 7, averaging 0.88 per game.
- Lakeland-native, Haleigh Harrell leads SEU with five stolen bases.
- Saturday's game will be the first game of the season for Point Park.
- The Pioneers are a part of the River State Conference, and they ranked third in the conference, which is how they ended the season in 2018.
- In the 2018 season, Point Park was 17-22 overall, 11-7 in-conference play.
- PPU return their entire pitching staff, which includes: senior Ashley Lagnemma, senior Tiffany Edwards, and junior Katie Tarr.
- The Pioneers welcome back four starters to the batting order, which includes their leading hitter and last year's RBI leader.
- The first time these two teams met, in the 2018 season, the Fire and Pioneers met at the end of February. The game went into an extra inning, where SEU won 1-0 at the end of the eighth inning.
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