(CARY, N.C.) – The Randolph-Macon softball team hits the road south to the Raleigh suburbs to compete in the 15th annual Grand Slam Triangle Classic with four games over the weekend. The Yellow Jackets will take on Marymount and LaGrange on Saturday before wrapping up with Kean and Methodist on Sunday.
Gate fees will be $7 for adults, $5 for seniors, and free for children 10 and under.
The Basics
Times: Saturday – Marymount at 12:30 p.m.
LaGrange at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday – Kean at 11:30 a.m.
Methodist at 2 p.m.
Records: Randolph-Macon 2-0
Marymount 0-0
LaGrange 0-2
Kean 0-0
Methodist 3-3
Series Records: vs. Marymount – First Meeting
vs. LaGrange – First Meeting
vs. Kean – 0-2
vs. Methodist – 4-0
Last Meeting: Randolph-Macon 2, Kean 7 – February 29, 2020
Kean used a five-run first inning and made it hold up the rest of the way as these two teams met previously at the same tournament for the first game. Sami Davidson singled in Shelby Hill in the first and Maddie Stone brought in Isabella Brooks in the seventh.
Randolph-Macon 8, Methodist 0 (5 inn.)
Randolph-Macon 7, Methodist 0 – April 2, 2018, at Methodist
The fourth-ranked Yellow Jackets had little trouble with Methodist as they swept the Monarchs. The offense pounded out 25 hits through 12 innings of play, while Madie Rhoades tossed a one-hitter in the opener and Kayley Scott kept Methodist scoreless in the nightcap. Both pitchers threw seven strikeouts.
Last Time Out: Randolph-Macon 8, Mary Washington 0 (5 innings)
Randolph-Macon 6, Mary Washington 2 – Saturday, Feb. 19, at Randolph-Macon
LaGrange 4, Centre 12 (5 innings)
LaGrange 5, Center 10 – Sunday, Feb. 13, at LaGrange
Methodist 18, Randolph 15
Methodist 4, Randolph 8 – Saturday, Feb. 20, at Randolph
Marymount and Kean will both be playing their first games of the season. Marymount will be playing their first game in program history.
Athletes of the Week
- Last week's season opener with Mary Washington was a great start in particular for Rilee Baughan (Jr., Warsaw, Va. / Rappahannock) and Gracie Ellis (Fr., New Kent, Va. / New Kent). Baughan was named the ODAC Player of the Week and Ellis was ODAC Pitcher of the Week.
- Baughan earned her honors with a pair of home runs to lead the offense and pitched the team to a win in the second game.
- Ellis had an incredible collegiate debut as she struck out 10 and recorded a shutout of the Eagles for her first win.
Inside The Numbers
- Home runs were plentiful for the Yellow Jackets last Saturday as they hit four over the course of the day. In addition to Baughan's pair of round trips, Kayla Davis (Fr., Powhatan, Va. / Powhatan) and Naomi Sadler (Fr., Emporia, Va. / Brunswick). For Sadler, her home run came in her first collegiate at-bat.
- Five different players had two hits last Saturday, and 15 total Yellow Jackets reached first at least once during the day.
- Ellis' 10 strikeouts are the second-most in a single game out of anyone in the ODAC so far this season, and the most in a game that didn't go into extra innings.
- Baughan was one of two players in the ODAC to hit multiple home runs so far this season.
- Baughan's .667 batting average is currently second in the ODAC.
