Penn State
at
Maryland
March 23-25, 2018 || Nittany Lion Softball Park and Beard Field
Sat: 1 p.m. || Sat: 3:30 p.m. || Sun: 1 p.m.
SCHEDULE CHANGE: Maryland and Penn State will now play a doubleheader on Saturday begining at 1:00 pm and a single game on Sunday at the originally scheduled time of 1:00 pm.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The Maryland softball team (10-19) will begin conference action this weekend with a three game series at Penn State (3-18) March 24-25. The games will be streamed via Lion Vision.
Maryland has won four of its last six games heading into the weekend, including three games at the Bank of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine Classic hosted by the University of Hawaii in the team's last non-conference tournament of the season March 16-18.
Maryland went 10-19 in non-conference action, including a 10-12 mark against unraked teams.
storylines
• Senior Skylynne Ellazar played in her home state for the first time in her collegiate career at the Wahine Rainbow Classic March 16-18, helping Maryland to a 3-2 record on the weekend. The Kahului, Hawaii native played her high school ball at Baldwin on the island of Maui, before committing to play nearly 5,000 miles away at Maryland.
• Ellazar has paced Maryland's offense as one of the team's top of the lineup hitters during her senior season, holding a team-best .313 average while notching two home runs, 12 runs and seven RBIs.
• Maryland tallied a season-high 12 hits to score seven runs and knock off host Hawaii 7-6 in the finale of the Rainbow Wahine Classic on March 19. A five-run fifth inning made the difference for the Terrapins, as the squad battled back from a three-run deficit to plate the eventual game-winning run. It was the most hits in a single inning for Maryland this season, and tied the team's single inning high for runs (5) with the five scored in the Terps' 9-5 win over Iowa State on February 23.
• Sophomore Amanda Brashear turned in her best weekend of the season at the Black & Red Classic, finishing 8-for-16 (.500) from the plate while notching three RBIs and a run. Brashear delivered a walk off hit in Maryland's extra innings win over Eastern Illinois on March 3, slapping an infield single to push Maryland to a 3-2 victory.
• Freshman Ryan Denhart has made an immediate impact for the Terrapins in her first collegiate season, holding a team-best 2.29 ERA in 100.2 innings pitched. The Los Alamitos, Calif. native posted a career-high nine strikeouts in a complete game effort against Jacksonville on March 9 at the Maryland Invitational, finishing with a 1.31 ERA and 17 strikeouts on the weekend.
• Denhart had a standout weekend at the Black & Red Classic, holding a 0.75 ERA through 18.2 innings while earning two wins and a save. She threw two complete games at the Tiger Invite, including a three-hit effort in 7.0 innings to help the Terps clinch a 4-1 win over Delaware on February 17.
