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Final Softball Non-League Game is Tuesday at Hofstra
April 05, 2010 | Softball
PRINCETON -- Tuesday will bring the final non-league game of the season for the Princeton softball team when it travels to Hofstra for a 4 p.m. contest.
Unlike the rest of Princeton's games this season, the Hofstra matchup will be a single game. The Tigers will resume their twinbill schedule at Brown Friday.
Princeton (6-21) will look to break a nine-game skid when it faces the Pride, which has won three straight and seven of its last eight toward its 21-6 overall record this season. The teams have not met since 2001, and the game will be a homecoming for Princeton assistant coach Alexis Alcantara, a 2004 Hofstra alum.
All three pitchers saw action last weekend for Princeton, with Liza Kuhn (3-5, 3.96), Alex Peyton (3-5, 3.16) and Jamie Lettire (0-11, 7.33) getting in the circle during the Harvard-Dartmouth series. Lettire became Princeton's top hitter, now with a .294 average, after uncorking a pair of home runs that tied her for the program's career record of 37 alongside Melissa Finley '05.
Hofstra has hit fewer home runs than Princeton, 20-12, but has one regular player hitting above .300 with senior Michele DePasquale checking in at .370 and a team-high six doubles. In the circle, freshman Olivia Galati (13-2, 1.11) has thrown 101 of the team's 182 innings while sophomore Erin Wade (7-4, 3.48) has logged 72 of the rest.