Brown University’s softball team will host Harvard for a weekend Ivy League series starting Saturday, April 11, and continuing through Sunday, April 12. The series includes a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 12:30 p.m., which will also serve as Alumnae Day. Sunday’s single game starts at noon and is designated as Youth Day, with an autograph session and meet-the-team event scheduled after the game. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+.
The upcoming match-up is significant for both teams as they continue their seasons in the Ivy League. Brown enters the weekend with a 3-6 record in league play and an overall record of 10-17, having lost its last four conference games. Macy Borowski leads Brown both as a pitcher and hitter, posting a team-best earned run average of 3.48 along with seven wins, eleven complete games, and ninety-one strikeouts over nearly ninety-nine innings pitched. At bat, Borowski also tops the Bears with a .315 average and .377 on-base percentage.
Senior Cameron Zytkewicz Ray has collected twenty-three hits this season—including two triples—and is approaching her one-hundredth career hit milestone with ninety-eight so far. Maggie Foxx leads the team in home runs with four and has driven in fourteen runs; Elli Thompson holds the team lead in runs batted in with fifteen.
Harvard arrives at Brown holding a balanced overall record of fourteen wins, fourteen losses, one tie (14-14-1), and stands at six wins to three losses within Ivy League competition after sweeping Cornell last weekend. The Crimson are currently on a four-game winning streak that began after defeating Dartmouth two weekends ago. Sophie Sun leads Harvard’s offense across several categories: batting average (.387), doubles (seven), home runs (seven), and runs batted in (thirty-four). Audrey Szollosi follows closely behind Sun with a .381 batting average along with forty hits—a team high—and twenty-seven runs scored.
Pitcher Nicolette Hunter anchors Harvard’s pitching staff this season with an earned run average of 2.33 over eighty-one innings pitched while recording sixty-seven strikeouts; she currently holds seven wins against six losses.
Historically, Brown trails Harvard in their all-time meetings by forty-five wins to seventy-three losses but took two out of three games during last year’s series played at Harvard—winning by scores of eight to two and eleven to six respectively. In their most recent Providence meeting held March 30–31 last year, it was Harvard who won two out of three contests.
