General Apr 24, 2019

Lions Ledger: Softball Hosts Tampa in Crucial SSC Showdown

Baseball Travels to Eckerd Thursday and Friday

Saint Leo hits the road for a three-game set at Eckerd, who sits second in the Sunshine State Conference standings.
The Lions went 4-0 against the Tritons last season including an 8-5 non-conference game at Eckerd and a 3-0 sweep at home in SSC action. Saint Leo took two of three against Eckerd the last time the series was playing in St. Petersburg in 2017.
Senior Peyton Isaacson recently took over the batting average lead for the Lions with his .339 clip that includes 11 doubles, a triple and eight home runs. He has driven in a team-high 42 runs and drawn 27 walks.
Junior Jacob Reimold leads in the power department with nine long balls while senior Brett Coffel sits in third behind Isaacson with six.
On the pitching side, the Lions have seen seven different pitchers start games this season with junior Joey Antonopoulos leading the way with a 6-3 record.
Redshirt junior Ryan Nolan has seen the most action on the mound going a team-high 61.2 innings while Antonopoulos, who has seen 46.0 innings of work, leads the team in strikeouts with 51.
Eckerd recently lost ending a six-game win streak. The Tritons have taken series over Nova Southeastern, nationally-ranked Embry-Riddle, Coker and Barry over the last several weeks.
Senior catcher Mitch Calandra leads the team offensively with a .381 batting average that includes 14 doubles, a triple and five home runs. He has driven in a team-best 55 runs and scored 37 runs of his own.
Senior Garrett Hiott and junior Chase Achuff rank second and third, respectively, on the team in RBI with 35 and 30, while senior Justin Glover has blasted a team-high eight home runs.
The Tritons have sent seven different pitchers to the mound to start games this season with senior left hander Dillon McCollough leading the way with a perfect 8-0 record. McCollough leads the team in innings pitched with 92.0 and strikeouts with 113.

Saint Leo enters the matchup with Tampa and will honor its six seniors - Ciara McCoy, Ashley Morris, Bailey Burk, Alyssa Wash, Shyanne DuBois, Auria Mounts - to close out the regular season. The last time out, the Green and Gold swept the series from Barry where Kacie Kelly collected her 200th career hit.
Kacie Kelly leads the Lions with a .385 batting average and 52 hits where she has scored 33 runs and has drawn 20 walks. All four categories, batting average (5th), hits (5th), runs (4th) and walks (7th) ranks inside the top-10 in the SSC.
Auria Mounts and Sara Neuman continue to lead the Lions staff with under 2.00 ERA's as Neuman is the staff leader at 1.14, second in the SSC, and Mounts at 1.64 ERA, ninth in the SSC. Mounts leads the LIons with 115 innings pitched and 74 strikeouts.
Tampa comes into the matchup as the front runner in the SSC after taking the series against Palm Beach Atlantic 2-1.
Maddie Farrell paces the Spartans on the year in 40 games played with a .309 average and 22 RBI. Makaleigh Dooley is the workhorse for the pitching staff, logging 201 innings of work with 203 strikeouts and a 1.04 ERA with a 24-6 record. Dooley leads the SSC in ERA, strikeouts and wins while she is second in innings pitched.