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2022 SCHEDULE
Overall: 32-11 // H: 23-4 // A: 6-4 // N: 3-3 ASUN: 11-4 // H: 5-1 // A: 6-3 // N: 0-0 February (11-5) 11 Campbell 11 Florida A&M 12 Winthrop 12 NC State 13 Winthrop 18 Mercer 18 Mercer 19 Michigan St. 19 Michigan St. 22 #6 Florida 23 #6 Florida 25 Iowa 25 Notre Dame 26 Rutgers 27 Siena 27 Princeton
W, 4-2 W, 2-0 W, 4-0 L, 5-6 (9) W, 10-2 (6) W, 5-2 W, 4-2 W, 4-3 W, 4-3 (8) L, 1-7 L, 0-8 (5) L, 1-3 L, 1-2 W, 10-7 W, 6-0 W, 7-0
March (15-5) 4 4 5 5 6 8 8 9 12 12 13 16 16 19 19 20 26 26 27 30
Fairleigh Dickinson St. Francis Monmouth Monmouth St. Francis Holy Cross Holy Cross Tennessee St. FGCU* FGCU* FGCU* Bucknell Bucknell Lipscomb* Lipscomb* Lipscomb* Jacksonville St.* Jacksonville St.* Jacksonville St.* #2 Florida St.
W, 8-0 (5) W, 6-0 W, 1-0 W, 10-0 (5) W, 6-0 W, 1-0 W, 5-1 W, 6-0 W, 4-2 W, 2-0 L, 1-3 W, 9-0 (5) W, 4-0 W, 5-2 W, 9-1 (5) L, 6-7 (11) L, 1-2 W, 4-0 L, 4-5 (8) L, 3-12
April (3-0) 2 2 3 6 9 9 10 15 15 16 20 20 23 23 24 30 30
Central Arkansas* Central Arkansas* Central Arkansas* #20 UCF Jacksonville Jacksonville Jacksonville Kennesaw St. Kennesaw St. Kennesaw St. Georgia Southern Georgia Southern Stetson* Stetson* Stetson* Liberty* Liberty*
W, 2-0 W, 1-0 (8) W, 3-2 L, 1-2 W, 11-3 W, 11-2 (5) W, 11-2 (5) 4 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 3:30 p.m.
May (1) 1 10-14
Liberty* ASUN Softball Championship
Home games in BOLD Italic indicates neutral site game *Indicate ASUN contest
12 p.m.
GAMES 44-46 (UNF Softball Complex | Jacksonville, Fla.) NORTH FLORIDA OSPREYS (32-11. 11-4 ASUN)
KENNESAW STATE (12-22, 4-8 ASUN)
Head Coach: Marcie Higgs Record at UNF: 337-319 2021 Record: 21-23
Head Coach: Tripp MacKay Record at KSU: 47-33 2021 Record: 27-27
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS B AVG.
RUNS
RBI
HOME RUNS
Paige Pfent (.352 AVG)
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Kayla Harper (29 runs)
Paige Pfent (29 RBI)
RUNS
RBI
HOME RUNS
Taylor Cates (.385 AVG)
Four players (5 HRs)
ERA
Taylor Cates (23 runs)
Taylor Cates (28 RBI)
STRIKEOUTS Morgan Clausen (1.28 ERA)
Taylor Cates (11 HRs)
ERA
Halle Arends (110 strikeouts)
STRIKEOUTS Melanie Bennett (3.87 ERA)
TEAM STATS B AVG. RUNS HOME RUNS SB ERA OB % SLUG % FIELDING %
B AVG.
Melanie Bennett (113 strikeouts)
TEAM STATS UNF .277 4.72 0.60 1.28 1.47 .347 .411 .966
ASUN RANK 3rd 2nd 5th 3rd 1st 4th 2nd 5th
NCAA RANK 110th 117th 146th 80th 4th 151st 125th 80th
KSU .262 3.79 0.76 0.85 4.12 .327 .401 .950
B AVG. RUNS HOME RUNS STOLEN BASES ERA OB % SLUG % FIELDING %
ASUN RANK 5th 5th 2nd 8th 6th 6th 5th 9th
NCAA RANK 168th 190th 98th 185th 189th 204th 136th 224th
SERIES HISTORY: UNF VS. KENNESAW STATE Overall: KSU leads, 50-21 ASUN: KSU leads, 25-17 at UNF: KSU leads, 19-13 at KSU: KSU leads, 30-8 First Meeting: 3/06/98 (KSU W, 11-1) Last Meeting: 4/07/19 (UNF W, 2-0)
Last Five Meetings Date 3.30.18 3.31.18 4.06.19 4.06.19 4.07.19
Result KSU W, 5-0 KSU W, 3-2 KSU W, 3-1 KSU W, 3-1 UNF W, 2-0
Location at KSU at KSU at UNF at UNF at UNF
WHAT TO KNOW
BA, 11 RBI, nine runs, and two homers in 15
hosted by FSU. They will be coming off a
- Kayla McGory won her first-career ASUN
conference games played.
weekend where they were swept by Liberty
Softball Player of the Week after her incredi-
- Shannon Glover and Kayla continue to be
on the road, who is currently the top-ranked
ble weekend across town. She recorded five
consistent and durable, as they join Pfent
team in the conference. Taylor Cates is far and
hits with a .500 BA, 10 RBI, three runs and a
and McGory as the only players with over a
away the Owls' best batter on the team with
grand slam to help sweep JU.
.300 BA. They also join Pfent as the only three
a .385 batting average (40-for-104), which is
- Morgan Clausen takes back her place on
players to play and start in all 43 games on
.81 points better than the second-best batter.
top of the conference in ERA at 1.28 after
the year.
She also leads the team in other stat catego-
her dominant performance in the first game
- The Ospreys hit six home runs combined
ries such as total hits (40), runs (23), RBI (28),
against JU. Halle Arends also picked up a pair
over their past three games with all of them
home runs (11), total bases (83), doubles (10),
of wins this past weekend to hold a share of
being against JU. Hayley Bejarano hit one in
and steals (7), as well as slugging percentage
being the wins leader in the ASUN at 14 total.
the first game and Abi Annett hit back-to-
(.798) and on-base percentage (.419). The
- Clausen and Arends, as well as Erin Kyle, still
back bombs in the second game, along with
pitching ace for the Owls is Melanie Bennett,
remain the top-three ERAs in the ASUN half-
Shannon Glover, Savannah Channell and
who holds a 3.87 ERA with a total of 113
way through conference play. The pitching
Kayla McGory all getting in on the action in
strikeouts on the season. She has thrown 12
staff as a whole have some national numbers
the third game.
complete games in 16 starts and 23 appear-
as well, as they rank fourth in the NCAA for
ances. She also has a 9-10 record, which is the
both team ERA (1.47) and total shutouts (17).
OPPONENT NOTES
best on the team, in 118.2 innings pitched.
- Paige Pfent is still the leader in the club-
- Kennesaw State is 12-22 overall with a 4-8
UNF trails in the overall series against the
house for batting average (.352), total hits
record in ASUN play so far this season. They
Owls, 21-50, with their last meeting being a
(45), and RBI (29) on the season. Savannah
are 0-8 against Power Five teams on the year,
2-0 win on April 7, 2019, in Jacksonville, Fla.
Channell has improved her play throughout
but have signature wins against Loyola-Chi-
the season, as she has popped off with a .368
cago and Mercer in the Joanne Graf Classic
