BGSU softball (12-20, 4-4 MAC) heads out of the nest for the first time in nearly two weeks when they take on the Akron Zips (16-17, 3-5 MAC) for a doubleheader on Tuesday, April 1 with game one beginning at 1:00 p.m.
The showdown at Lee R. Jackson Field will be the second and third time that the two squads have met in 2025, as the Zips took down the Falcons by a score of 7-2 in a game at the Spartanburg Tournament on Feb. 9.
The Falcons are looking to rebound from a tough weekend at home where they lost in both games of a Saturday doubleheader with Ball State (21-8, 6-2 MAC) where the Cardinals outscored Bowling Green 24-9 in in 14-5 and 10-4 victories.
Falcon Forecast
Despite the disappointing weekend, the Falcons enjoyed a pleasant homestand, winning six of nine and sweeping Kent State in a three-game slate as well as Youngstown State in a mid-week doubleheader.
After a tough Buffalo series, redshirt freshman Addie Martin maintained a 10-game hitting streak by smacking 18 hits and four home runs around Meserve Field during the nine-game homestand, earning herself D1Softball’s National Player of the Week Award after going 11 for 19 in five games against Green Bay and Kent State.
Second baseman Hannah Hunt created a nine-game hit streak of her own after 12 hits gave her nine RBIs across the two weeks.
After walking off Kent State on a pinch-hit double in game two of the series, junior outfielder Delaney Davis has hit the ground running, taking advantage of starting opportunities by going 9-19 in the homestand with two three-hit games.
The Falcons are currently fifth in the MAC standings with their 4-4 conference record with an offense and defense that are both ranked eighth out of 11 MAC teams.
Martin has the third-best OPS in the MAC with 11 home runs, the fourth most in the category. The Falcons have 119 walks on the season, a mark that ties them for third most in the MAC.
Previewing Akron
The Zips come into the Tuesday doubleheader sixth in the MAC standings with a 3-5 record and some confidence after winning the last two of a three-game set with Toledo.
Akron head coach Craig Nicholson relies on a deep and consistent Akron lineup that features five out of nine starters with batting averages over .300 and all but one with an average under .260.
Pitchers Macy Walters and Madie Jamrog have led a balanced pitching staff by soaking up 81 and 63 respective innings. Walters is coming off a complete game against Toledo where both of her runs allowed were unearned, but Jamrog has struggled as of late, allowing four earned runs in 1.2 innings against Central Michigan and five earned runs in 3.2 innings against Toledo in her last two outings.
The Zips are sixth in team batting average and eighth in team ERA, but their fielding percentage of 0.972 leads the MAC. Akron commits the least errors of any team and has recorded the second-most putouts with 633.
