Beantown Battles Make Up Softball’s Weekend

SUFFOLK vs. SIMMONS
Date Time Venue Stats Video Series Last Meeting Last Suffolk Win Streak	Saturday, March 22 12:00 PM - DH Daly Field Brighton, Mass. Athletics.Simmons.edu Athletics.Simmons.edu 26-22 March 7, 2025, L, 5-2 March 26, 2022, W, 3-2 Lost 1

SUFFOLK vs. EMERSON
Date Time Venue Stats Video Series Last Meeting Last Suffolk Win Streak	Sunday, March 23 12:00 PM - DH Rotch Field Boston, Mass. EmersonLions.com FloSports 26-33 March 22, 2024, W, 12-6  Same Won 2

BOSTON – Suffolk softball has two twinbills with city foes this weekend in Simmons and Emerson in that order. The Rams will face the Sharks Saturday, March 22 before taking on the Lions Sunday, March 23. Both double features have a 12:00 p.m. first pitch.

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LAST TIME OUT
Suffolk softball stumbled in it's the Spring Games finale to Earlham, 12-0, in five innings Thursday afternoon at the DiamondPlex. 

MORE READING: Softball Silenced by Earlham in Five

RAMS RUNDOWN
Suffolk went 4-8 at The Spring Games and looks to snap a five-game skid Saturday.  

Catherine Carignan has been the most consistent hitter with 16 hits including two doubles behind a .471 connection rate at the plate. She has scored a team-high eight times and swiped seven bases. Julia Mills and Lily Newhall have provided 10 hits apiece. Mills has brought in six runs and scored five herself, while Newhall's stat line is reversed in those categories.  

Newhall and Cythina Rucinski are the usual starting pitchers for the Rams. Newhall holdsa. 4.41 ERA in 33.1 innings pitching with 14 strikeouts. Rucinski, meanwhile, brings in a 3.79 ERA in 20.1 innings and 15 punchouts. 

SHARKS SAYINGS
Simmons is 5-9 on the year. The Sharks went 5-5 at The Spring Games, but has been swept in double features against MIT and Rhode Island since returning to New England.  

Zoe Soule holds a team-best RBI behind 10 hits with six runs scored to her credit. Raya Anderson has scored a team-best 11 times and has brought in two runs of her own on 12 hits and 10 walks. Teagan Buckley has produced a squad-best 16 hits with five RBI and five runs scored on her stat line. 

Ally Hyde (3.16 ERA, 31.0 IP, 19 K), Piper Kinney (4.59 ERA, 39.2 IP, 22 K) and Trinity Payne (5.64 ERA, 22.1 IP, 11 K) have all seen time in the circle.  

WE MEET AGAIN
Simmons softball broke up a 2-all tie with a three-run sixth inning to hand Suffolk softball a 5-2 setback Friday afternoon at the DiamondPlex as part of The Spring Games March 7, 2025. 

MORE READING: Sixth Inning Sends Simmons Past Softball, 5-2 

INSIDE THE SERIES

• The Suffolk, Simmons series dates back to 1998. 
• Suffolk sits 26-22 all-time against the Sharks. 
• The foes last met in Florida March 7, 2025. Suffolk fell to Simmons in that meeting, 5-2.
• The Rams are in the hunt to take down the Sharks for the first time since March 26, 2022, a 3-2 win. 
• As the home team, Suffolk is 15-8.
• On the road, the Rams are 9-8. versus the Sharks. 
• On a neutral diamond, the blue-and-gold is 2-6. 
• There have has been 12 shutouts in the all-time series.  
• Suffolk is 0-1 when playing Simmons with Megan Cook on the bench.

STATS SHOWDOWN
 

LIONS LOOK
Emerson brings a .500 (5-5) ledger into the weekend.  

Sam Zannotti and Jessica Gomez have near identical stat lines at the plate with 12 hits each behind .387 batting averages. Zanotti has brought in seven RBI and scored five runs, while Gomez has a pair of RBI and three runs scored. 

The Lions have used four different twirlers this season in Kate Regan (2.17 ERA, 19.1 IP, 9 K), Caleigh Sheehan (3.16 ERA, 24.1 IP, 29 K), Gomez (5.13 ERA, 1.50 IP, 7 K) and Sofia Holden (6.00 ERA, 3.1 IP, 1 K).

INSIDE THE SERIES

• The Suffolk, Emerson is one of the oldest in the books, dating back to 1987. 
• The Rams are 26-33 all-time against the Lions. 
• The blue-and-gold swept Emerson a year ago, March 22, 2024. 
• On the road, the Rams are 15-17 versus Emerson. 
• As the home team, Suffolk sports a 11-16 record against the Lions. 
• There have been 11 shutouts in the all-time series. 
• Suffolk is 6-5 when a team is kept off the scoreboard in the series with Emerson. 
• The Rams are unbeaten, 2-0, versus Emerson under Megan Cook's guidance. 

STATS SHOWDOWN
 

SUFFOLK'S SCHEDULE
The Rams are set to welcome the University of New England to East Boston Saturday, March 29 for their Conference of New England (CNE) opener.