UPDATED: Regular Season's Final Week Ahead for Softball Team as Ivy Tournament Awaits

A Tuesday visit from Rider and a weekend trip to Brown will wrap the regular season for an Ivy League champion Princeton softball team that is aiming to host the Ivy League Tournament next weekend.

vs. Rider
Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. DH | ESPN+ Game 1 / Game 2 | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Game Program | Free Admission
at Brown
Friday, 4:00 p.m single | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
Saturday 12:00 p.m. DH | ESPN+ Game 1 / Game 2 | Int'l Video | Live Stats

Tuesday's doubleheader against Rider will be Princeton's final regular-season home games, but the Tigers will be aiming for more games at Cynthia Lynn Paul '94 Field when they head up to Brown this weekend. One win against the Bears will ensure that the Tigers will host the Ivy League Tournament next weekend, as that would ensure Princeton will finish with no more than five Ivy League losses and every other team in the league already has six.

Against Rider, Princeton holds an all-time series edge of 50-13. Since the pandemic pause, Princeton has gone 4-1-1 against the Bears with four straight wins, sweeping twinbills in Lawrenceville in 2023 and at home in 2024. Against Brown, Princeton leads 64-19-1. Over the last three seasons, Princeton has gone 6-3 against the Bears, sweeping three games in 2022 in Princeton, taking two of three in Providence in 2023 and winning one of three last year in Princeton.

On the season overall, Princeton leads the Ivy League in batting average .317, and this weekend, the Tigers will face the team that leads the Ivy in ERA in Brown (2.80) where the Tigers are third (3.95). Princeton has the Ivy leaders in runs scored (Sonia Zhang, 32), triples (Julia Dumais and Lauren Sablone, 4), and walks (Karis Ford, 26).

In Ivy play, the Tigers lead in both batting average (.332) and ERA (1.88) as well as fielding percentage (.986). Fueling the league-best ERA are the top two pitchers in the Ivy in ERA in Brielle Wright (1.35 ERA) and Cassidy Shaw (2.14). Allison Ha and Sonia Zhang co-lead the Ivy in RBI in league games at 20 apiece, while Julia Dumais and Lauren Sablone co-lead in triples with three each and Ford leads with 18 walks.

Brown has players in position to win what would be both the pitching and hitting triple crowns in the Ivy on overall season stats. Laurel Moody leads the league in batting average at .463, RBI at 36, and homers at 14, as well as hits with 50, total bases at 100, OBP at .548, and slugging percentage at .926, while Alexis Guevara has a league-best 12 wins, 1.70 ERA and 117 Ks. Guevara was in the circle for both Brown wins in the series last season, first going all eight innings in a 6-4 Bears win before going the distance again in a 2-1, seven-inning win the next day. In the Princeton series last year, Moody went 4 for 10 with three walks, one double and no RBI, leading off all three games. This season, Brown is 18-7 in games in which Guevara pitches and 9-6 in games in which Guevara doesn't pitch. Guevara appeared in all three games of the series against two of the other three Ivy League Tournament contenders, doing so against Columbia and Harvard with two starts and a relief appearance in each series. Brown is 25-6 this season in games in which Moody gets a hit and 2-7 in games in which she does not get a hit. In Ivy games, Moody leads the league in batting average at .469, hits (23), homers (eight), total bases (47), slugging percentage (.959).

Julia Dumais has a career-best .341 BA this season and has tied her career high with five HRs.

Karis Ford has raised her BA from .243 last season to .354 so far this season, already has more hits (27 to 35) and RBI (24 to 34) this season than last, and has nearly doubled her HR total from last season (five) to this one (nine). Is slugging .687 this season after slugging .450 last season. Has drawn 27 walks this season to 10 last season. Her 27 walks this season match Julia Dumais' 27 from last season as the most for a Tiger since Marissa Reynolds had 27 in 2017. Ford's next walk would give her the most for a Tiger in a season since Reynolds had 33 in 2016. The team record is 35 by Jen Babik in 1995.

Allie Goodwin has raised her BA from .220 last season to .306 this season and has nearly twice as many hits this season (34) as last season (18). Has hit her first two career homers this season and has more RBI this season (18) than last (16).

Allison Ha has a .331 BA this season, which is higher than her best season-ending BA as a Tiger (.328 in 2022). Is five hits short of her single-season best of 45, set in 2022 and matched in 2023. Has tied her career high for RBI, with 28 this season and 28 in 2023.

Braeden Hale has raised her BA from .167 on March 13 to .317 heading into the week. Since April 18, heading into the week, is 9 for 22 (.409) at the plate.

Abby Hornberger has set career highs in hits (14), homers (five) and RBI (19) this season.

Lauren Pappert has set career highs in hits (16) and RBI (eight) this season while hitting her first career homer last weekend at Penn.

Jessica Phelps, since the start of the Ivy League season, entering the week, is hitting .388 (19 for 49).

Cassidy Shaw has lowered her season era from 4.06 at the end of last season to 3.37 this season entering the week and has nearly equaled her win total this season, with 12 in 2024 and 11 so far in 2025.

Brielle Wright has already started twice as many games this season (20) as in her first two seasons (10) and is closing in on throwing twice as many innings this season (109 2/3) as she had over her first two seasons (128). Has dropped opponent BA each season, from .292 in 2023 to .245 in 2024 to .229 this season.

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