GAME TIMES
- Friday Doubleheader at 2 p.m.
- Saturday Single Game at Noon
STORY LINES
- Binghamton (29-13, 13-4 AE) has won nine straight games and has already locked up a Top-2 seed at next week's America East Tournament, which will be held at UMBC May 10-13.
- Entering the final weekend of the regular season, the Bearcats are a half a game behind first-place UMBC (13-3 AE). The Retrievers host UMass Lowell in a three-game conference series this weekend.
- Binghamton's 29 victories are tied for the fourth-best total in its 45-year history. The 1995 team won a program-record 37 games, when the program still competed at the NCAA Division III level and were known as the Colonials. Binghamton also won 34 games in 2016 and 30 in 2013.
- The Bearcats are coming off a three-game sweep at Maine this past weekend by scores of 3-1, 4-1 and 5-3. Sophomore outfielder
Laney Harbaugh and freshman shortstop
Akira Kopec – the current America East Rookie of the Week – each batted a team-best .500 against the Black Bears. Fellow sophomore outfielder
Sarah Rende was .444 with a pair of triples. As a team, Binghamton posted a .314 batting average and 1.68 ERA against Maine.
- Graduate student pitcher
Sophia Pappas is the current America East Player of the Week. She hit .571 (4-for-7) with two doubles, three runs scored and a pair of RBIs. On the mound, she was 2-0 with a 1.91 ERA.
- On the national level, sophomore designated player
Lindsey Walter ranks No. 14 with a .448 batting average. She is also No. 30 with a .508 on-base percentage. Freshman pitcher
Brianna Roberts is No. 30 with a 5.33 strikeouts-to-walks ratio.
- As a team, Binghamton ranks No. 37 in the nation with a .306 batting average. The Bearcats are also No. 43 with 1.43 doubles per game and No. 39 with a .690 winning percentage.
- In the America East statistics, Walter is first in both batting and on-base percentage. She is also tied for first with 31 runs. Redshirt sophomore third baseman
Brianna Santos is first with 39 RBI and is tied for first in doubles with Rende (each with 10).
- Roberts is fourth in the America East in ERA (2.48), third with 96 strikeouts and is tied for first with 11 victories (she is 11-2). Pappas, meanwhile, is sixth with a 2.70 ERA, fifth with 89 strikeouts and is tied for seventh with six victories.
- As a team, Binghamton leads the America East in batting, ranks second with a 2.86 ERA and is first with a .970 fielding percentage.
- UAlbany (18-18, 8-7 AE) dropped two out of three games at UMass Lowell last weekend. Morgan Petty ranks second in the America East in batting (.416), is first with a .690 slugging percentage, is tied for third with six home runs and is fourth with 32 RBI. Wendi Hammond is tied with Roberts with 11 victories.
- As a team, UAlbany ranks second in the America East in batting (.295). The Great Danes are also fourth in ERA (3.80) and sixth in fielding (.942).
- Earlier in the season (April 7-8), the Bearcats took two out of three games at home against the Great Danes. Graduate student second baseman
Alli Richmond went 3-for-10 during the series with a pair of game-winning RBI. Roberts went a perfect 2-0 on the mound while Walter hit a team-best .500 during the three games.
- Harbaugh enters the series against Albany with a team-best, seven-game hitting streak, which ties her career high. She has also reached base in a team-best 14 consecutive games. Junior first baseman
Allison L'Amoreaux, meanwhile, has a career-high, six-game hitting streak.
- Santos' 39 RBI is tied for the eighth-best, single-season total in Binghamton program history. In a tie for sixth place with 41 RBI are Jessica Phillips (2011) and Griffin McIver (2016).
- Harbaugh's 20 stolen bases ranks second in the America East and is the seventh-best, single-season total in Binghamton program history. There is a three-way tie for fourth place with 23 stolen bases, most recently by Gabby Bracchi (2017).
- Roberts' 11 wins is tied for the highest win total by a Binghamton freshman pitcher since the program moved up to the NCAA Division I level in 2001. Sarah Miller also won 11 games in 2015. The all-time freshman program record of 18 wins is held by Binghamton Hall of Famer Charlene Cook, which she set in 1995.
