Softball Hosts 2026 Home Opener at Bahoshy Field
Bronx, NY – Hitting their residence turf for the primary time this season, Fordham University Softball hosts its 2026 residence opener Saturday and Sunday towards Dayton at Bahoshy Field.
All video games will air on ESPN+ with WFUV’s Dom Sansone and Anthony Smith on the decision of Saturday’s doubleheader at 12:00 pm Sansone can even name the collection finale Sunday alongside Peter Brito at 12:00 pm as properly.
Fordham (7-11, 1-2) opened convention play at George Mason final weekend, and are coming off a midweek victory at Army, 3-2 behind sturdy pitching from Olivia Simcoe and Sydney May. Dayton (8-8, 0-3) was swept in its opening A-10 collection at Loyola Chicago final weekend, incomes its final win on Mar. 1 towards Murray State.
The Rams maintain a 34-32 edge within the all-time collection with Dayton, with the 2 sides going 2-2 in 4 conferences final season. Dayton took the common season collection 2-1 in Ohio in 2025, with Fordham successful the finale, and the newest assembly within the A-10 Tournament a 12 months in the past, when the Rams gained 3-0 to advance to the A-10 Championship.
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Fordham as a staff leads the Atlantic 10 with 10 double performs turned on the 12 months, fiftieth within the nation, whereas averaging 0.56 double performs per sport, seventeenth finest in Division I.
Defensively the Rams are additionally the second finest within the league and 14th within the nation with a .981 fielding share, committing simply eight errors on the 12 months.
Olivia Simcoe has registered six full video games for the Rams, which leads the A-10 and locations her twenty seventh amongst all Division I pitchers for full video games in 2026.
With 11 stolen bases within the 12 months, Neleh Nogay is second within the A-10 and 52nd within the nation, whereas ranked twenty fifth nationally with 0.61 stolen bases per sport.
Averaging lower than one stroll per seven innings, Holly Beeman leads the convention and sits twelfth within the nation permitting simply three walks throughout 24.1 innings pitched this season. Elizabeth Gaisior fifth sits within the A-10 in that class, sixtieth finest within the nation at lower than 1.5.
Next Up
Fordham hosts St. John’s Wednesday for an Interborough class at 3:00 pm from Bahoshy Field on ESPN+.
