Mason Softball Earns Academic Recognition

The Mason Softball team was included in the 767 teams publicly recognized this year for high achievement that represent 11.9 percent of the approximately 6,484 Division I teams. The list includes 448 women's teams and 319 men's or mixed squads.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team's academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete. The APR includes eligibility, retention, and graduation in the calculation and provides a clear picture of the academic culture in each sport.

Great job in the classroom ladies!!!!

The sun is shining today and hopefully there will be no more rain for the rest of the season! There are a couple of exciting events coming up the next two weekends. We have a home series agains UNCW this weekend. Following the game on Sunday we are doing a free clinic for Girl Scouts in the area! We usually do this once a year and it's a lot of fun! Saturday, April 25 we host Delaware and all of our softball Alumni. I can't wait to catch up with everyone, it's been too long! Sunday, April 26 we will honor our two seniors at our last home game of the year. 4 years goes by so fast!

Weekend Recap

Well the results in the W/L column were not what we wanted but we progressed throughout the weekend and believe that we can not only compete but win against the best teams in our league. Defense continues to be our biggest struggle. The best thing about this group is that they continue to work very hard at getting better and we can see it happening pretty fast.
We had a day off yesterday and the kids hit the weight room pretty hard this morning. No mid-week games leading up to the weekend so we will have time to address some mistakes that have been happening as well as heal up some wounds before we head up to Baltimore for a series against Towson.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!! First conference series coming up against Hofstra this weekend. I'll be cheering on our Men's basketball team in the NIT tonight.

CAA Pitcher of the Week!

Congrats to Becky for being named CAA Pitcher of the Week! Also, congrats to Miranda Cranford for being named CAA Rookie of the Week last week! Keep it up Patriots!!

It is suppose to be a beautiful 60 degree weekend. There will be games all weekend as we host the Mason Invitational!

Well, we got a little snow last night. Our game tomorrow against UVA has been postponed. Hopefully this stuff will be gone before the weekend.

Game Day Pic!

We won our first two ball games on the new field today! Becky Anderson got the win in Game 1. We were down 3 runs and came back to win 4-3. Brianne Pease got the win in Game 2 as we cruised to a 10 - 1 victory in 5 innings. Rachael Davies hit her first homerun of the year in Game 2.

I thought overall we looked a lot more comfortable than we did last weekend. Defensively we played better but still need to play catch better. We swung the bat well and had pretty good at bats all day. We made some baserunning mistakes and left a few runs on the field but all in all we keep getting better everyday.

A couple of pics from our trip this weekend.

Weekend Recap

This weekend was a great experience for our ball club. It's impossible to create game speed at practice and we finally got to get outside and see what Div. I softball is all about. The great thing is that even though we fell short in a couple close ball games, our kids know they can not only compete, but win at this level. I really liked the way we reacted when we got back to Fairfax. We had some kids putting work in on their day off and we got after it in the weight room this morning.

This afternoon will be our first practice in the new ballpark! It looks great and can't wait to see how it's going to play.