University of Massachusets Athletics
Softball Continues Homestand Sunday Against GW At Noon
April 27, 2007 | Softball
April 27, 2007
What's On Tap:
• Massachusetts (27-12-1, 12-0 A-10) continues its eight-game homestand to close out the regular season Sunday against George Washington at Noon in a doubleheader.
• At 12-0, the Minutewomen are looking for their sixth undefeated season in conference play. After Sunday, UMass still has four league games remaining (May 4 and May 5 vs. Fordham and May 6 vs. La Salle).
• UMass is currently tied with DePaul for the second-longest winning streak in the nation at 16 games. No. 1 Tennessee leads the way having won 26 games in a row.
• UMass is tied with Alabama with the second-longest home winning streak at 22 games in a row. Top-ranked Tennessee has the longest having won 23 straight at home.
Killer B's On A Roll
• UMass' tandem in the circle of sophomore Brandice Balschmiter ? and freshman Bailey Sanders have been putting up some impressive numbers recently.
• Since March 19, the duo are 16-1 with a minuscule 0.69 ERA. The Killer B's have held opponents to a .134 batting average and struck out 120 batters in 132.1 innings.
• Balschmiter is 13-0 in this stretch with a 0.62 ERA. Opponents are hitting .128 off of her while striking out 89 times in 82.2 innings pitched.
• She has six shutouts and a no-hitter (March 28 vs. Dartmouth), the second of her career, during this time.
• Sanders, meanwhile, is 4-1 with a 1.11 ERA. Opponents are hitting .151 off Sanders and struck out 31 times in 25.1 innings pitched.
• Sanders picked up her first career shutout while striking out a career-high nine batters in just five innings April 22 at Saint Joseph's.
• The Killer B's have walked just 31 batters in 108.0 innings pitched for an impressive 3.9 strikeout to walk ratio.
Cullington Continues Home Run Onslaught
• UMass junior Stacy Cullington hit two home runs vs. Boston University on Thursday, her second multi-home run game in the last four games.
• Cullington is now first on the team and second in the A-10 with 12 home runs.
• She is just the sixth player in the history of the program to hit at least 10 round-trippers in a season. Cullington needs just two more to tie KJ Kelley for the all-time single-season record of 14 which she set in 2005.
• Cullington paces the Atlantic 10 with 45 RBI and is second in UMass single-season history.
• Whitney Mollica's 61 RBI in 2006 were a school and Atlantic 10 single-season record.
• Cullington had a grand slam, her second one this year, as well as a three-run homer vs, the Terriers to establish a new school single-game record with seven.
• The previous best of six RBI in a game had been done three times, most recently by Jenna Busa in 2005.
Love That Home Cookin'
• UMass has currently reeled off 22 straight wins at home, which is tied with Alabama for the second longest active streak in the nation. This includes three wins in the NCAA Tournament last year. The last loss for the Minutewomen at the UMass Softball Complex was a 2-1 defeat to Charlotte on April 9, 2006. UMass has previously held a 73-game home winning streak. That was stopped by Saint Joseph's in the 2004 A-10 Tournament.
• The Minutewomen are still 125-9-1 (.930) all-time at the UMass Softball Complex. The Minutewomen are 63-4 (.941) against league foes and 3-0 in the NCAA Tournament at the UMass Softball Complex. Here is a statistical breakdown of how the Minutewomen have fared all-time at the UMass Softball Complex.
AVG: .346 (1141-3298)
Opp. AVG.: .162 (509-3146)
Runs: 849 (6.3/game)
Opp. Runs: 158 (1.2/game)
Home Runs: 87 (0.64/game)
Opp. Home Runs: 15 (0.11/game)
