Softball Team to Begin Spring Trip This Weekend in California

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Four games over two days in California will open the spring trip for the Tigers, who have eight games left on the docket before the Ivy League season begins in two weeks.

at San José State, Sunday, 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT DH | Watch | Game 1 Live Stats | Game 2 Live Stats
at Santa Clara, Monday, 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT DH | ESPN+ Game 1 | ESPN+ Game 2 | Game 1 Live Stats | Game 2 Live Stats

Princeton opened the season with a 2-2 trip to North Carolina before taking one of five games two weekends later at Texas A&M, winning the weekend finale over George Washington. Entering Thursday's games, Princeton ranks 18th in Division I in home runs per game, at 1.44, having spread the dingers around with Lauren Sablone, Sonia Zhang, Karis Ford, Julia Dumais, Allison Ha and Abby Hornberger each having hit two.

Among the five Tigers who are hitting .300 so far this season, Sablone (.393), Zhang (.385) and Dumais (.346) were all first-team All-Ivy Leaguers last season, and Ford (.350) was the Most Outstanding Player of the Ivy League Tournament, sophomore Graciela Dominguez (.381) has upped her average from a season-ending .207 a year ago and already has more hits, with eight, than she did as a rookie, with six. In the circle, Cassidy Shaw and Meghan Harrington were Ivy all-tournament team honorees in 2024, while Brielle Wright set the single-season and career saves record last season. Wright has led Princeton in innings pitched so far this season, with 24 2/3 and co-leading the team with eight appearances alongside rookie Keala Hollenkamp, who has thrown 11 1/3 innings. Shaw has two of the team's three wins, with Wright having the other. The staff has the 20th-best Ks-per-seven rate in the nation, at 7.13.

San José State enters the weekend with a 9-12 record and will take on Santa Clara on Saturday. The Spartans were picked ninth in the nine-team Mountain West preseason coaches poll. Junior infielder/utility player Reina Zermeno among 15 players on the Mountain West's preseason all-conference team. Princeton and SJSU played eight times between 2009 and 2017, with the Spartans taking the last seven since Princeton won the teams' first meeting in '09. The first six games were at San José State with the last two, in 2017, at Santa Clara. The Spartans and the Tigers have one common opponent that each has already faced this season, with Idaho State taking two from SJSU on Feb. 7, 11-8 and 3-1 at UC Davis, and one from Princeton, 5-3 last Saturday at Texas A&M.

Santa Clara enters Saturday's game with San José State at 10-8 and looking to snap a three-game skid against Sacramento State, Nevada and Boston College. The Broncos were picked fourth in the six-team West Coast Conference with three players on the 15-player preseason all-conference team, including sophomore middle infielder/outfielder Cairah Curran, junior pitcher/utility player Hayzl Gray, and graduate student pitcher Hannah Edwards. Princeton is 5-5 all-time against Santa Clara, with all 10 games coming between 2005 and 2014. Princeton has won five of the last six in the series, and Monday's games will be just the second and third times the teams have met on Santa Clara's field, with nine of the first 10 meetings taking place either at San José State or Stanford.

Following the weekend, the Tigers will make it halfway back across the country, stopping in Missouri for games next Thursday and Friday against South Dakota State, host Missouri, Quinnipiac and Michigan. The Ivy League opener, and the first games at Princeton's new facility, Cynthia Lynn Paul '94 Field, will follow on March 22.

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