Carey, Bearcats dominate final AE softball stat rankings

5/21/2026 8:56:00 PM | By: David O’Brian (dobrian@binghamton.edu)

Binghamton continues offensive fireworks during 2026 campaign

VESTAL, N.Y. – For sophomore third baseman Rachel Carey and the Binghamton softball program, the 2026 season marked a continuation of having the best bats in the America East Conference.

In the final America East team and individual statistics, Binghamton was tops in nearly all significant batting categories. So too was Carey in most of the individual statistical rankings.

Binghamton led the conference in batting for the second straight season as well as the third time in four years. The Bearcats hit .312, which also represented the third-best mark in their program history.

The Bearcats' 52 home runs marked the third straight year it has led the America East in that category. It is also the second-best, single-season total in school history.

Binghamton was also first in the America East with 85 doubles (program record), a .404 on-base percentage (second in program history), a .518 slugging percentage (second) and 160 walks (also second).

Carey meanwhile, nearly won the America East's triple crown. She won the batting title (.468), was second in home runs (14) and ranked first in RBI (47). Carey also swept first place in on-base percentage (.509), slugging percentage (.854) and OPS (1.363).

Carey's batting average is the fifth-highest single-season mark in America East history. She is the second straight Binghamton player to win the conference's batting title - following current senior Emma Lawson's .379 average last year.

The other first-place rankings for Carey this year included her 45 runs and 74 hits - the latter of which broke the Binghamton single-season record.

Junior Elisa Allen led the America East in home runs for the second year in a row (16). She was also third RBI (44) and tied for third with a .714 slugging percentage. For her career, Allen is now tied for first place all-time in conference history with 46 home runs.

Graduate student outfielder Darien McDonough - who transferred from Boston College before the school year - was eighth in the America East in batting (.361). She was also seventh in slugging percentage (.563) and tied for seventh in OPS (.989). McDonough's 15 doubles was the third-best total in the America East this season while her 30 RBI tied for fourth and her five home runs tied for ninth.

Junior outfielder Maddy Dodig finished in the top 10 in batting (No. 10, .344), on-base percentage (seventh, .447) slugging percentage (ninth, .519) and OPS (ninth, .966). She also tied for fifth with 10 doubles, tied for third with two triples and tied for eighth with 27 RBI. Furthermore, Dodig tied for first in the America East with three sacrifice flies.

Other Bearcat stat rankings on offense included freshman designated player Lauren Payne (fourth with 12 doubles), Lawson (tied for fifth with five home runs), senior shortstop Rebecca Minnichbach (tied for ninth with 28 runs scored), redshirt junior second baseman Akira Kopec (tied for seventh with 22 walks and freshman outfielder Megan Wolf (tied for third with five sacrifice bunts).

Senior pitcher Olivia Kennedy, who won both games in the America East championship round against UMass Lowell, tied for fifth with eight victories.

Since the start of the 2023 season, Binghamton has gone 118-77 (.605) with a pair of America East championships (2025 & 2026), two regular-season conference titles (2024 & 2025) as well as two trips to the NCAA Tournament (2025 & 2026).

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