FIRST PITCH...
• The Bowling Green State University softball team ends the 2025 regular-season schedule with a three-game weekend series at Meserve Field. Head coach Michelle Gardner and the Falcons will face Robert Morris University in a Friday (May 2) single game, beginning at 3:00 p.m., followed by a Saturday (May 3) doubleheader that starts at 1:00 p.m. Admission to all three games is free.

STRIKE OUT CANCER
• The Falcons' Saturday (May 3) DH is the team's Strike Out Cancer day, as the program will look to raise awareness for the 

ADDIE. MARTIN.
• Redshirt freshman Addie Martin hit her 13th homer of the season on Wednesday (April 30), moving her into sole possession of second place on the BGSU single-season list. She is just two round-trippers shy of the school record of 15, set by Hannah Fulk in 2012.

• Martin also has a team-leading 15 stolen bases this year to date. She is the first player in school history with at least a dozen homers and a dozen steals in the same season.

• In addition to the single-season mark for dingers, she is also near the top of several other BGSU single-season lists. Entering the RMU series, Martin is ranked in the top 20 on seven of those lists...
HITTING HER WAY INTO THE RECORD BOOK: ADDIE MARTIN ON THE BGSU SINGLE-SEASON CHARTS
Category     Total/Avg.  Ranking   The Current Record
Slugging       .669        Fifth        .746         
Home Runs        13       Second          15         
Runs             43     T-Fourth          57         
RBI              36      T-Ninth          46         
Total Bases     105        Sixth         126         
Batting Avg.   .344         20th        .439         
Stolen Bases     15       T-16th          53         

THE HUNT FOR THE TOP TWENTY
• Junior Hannah Hunt is also adding her name to the record books. Hunt has moved into the top 20 on three BGSU single-season lists, including batting average (.354, 18th), doubles (12, T-18th) and hits (56, T-20th).

ABOUT THE FALCONS
• The Falcons enter the Toledo series with an overall record of 15-35. BGSU has more than doubled the win total for all of last season, after going 6-38 in 2024.

• BGSU went 7-19 in MAC games this season after going a combined 5-51 in the previous two years.

• The Falcons began the season with five games at the Spartan Classic, hosted by USC Upstate, and the Orange and Brown participated in the Norman Tournament two weeks later. BGSU turned some heads on the final day of the latter tourney, battling then #2 Oklahoma into extra innings before falling, 8-5.

• The Falcons then played six games in Conway, S.C., including five at the Chanticleer Showdown, before wrapping up the pre-conference schedule with four games at Hoosier Classic.

• A total of 10 of the Falcons' losses have come against teams currently ranked 62nd or better in the latest RPI rankings.

• Head coach Michelle Gardner and her staff – Greg McQuillin, Tegan Cortelletti and Indya Smith – have 14 returning letterwinners, including four positional starters, from the 2024 club. Additionally, five of the seven pitchers from a season ago are on the '25 roster.

• Three Falcons have started all 50 games this season to date. That trio includes junior Hannah Hunt, sophomore Peyton Steffes and redshirt freshman Addie Martin. Sophomore Taylor Behrendt has made 49 starts this year, while junior Kendall Mathews and freshman Hanna Massaro have started 45 games apiece and junior Katie Hutter 41. Soph Cameron Kaufman started the first 20 games of the season, then missed the next 14 contests due to injury before returning for the NIU series. She has started the last 16 games.

• Hunt leads the Falcons with a .354 batting average, with Martin and Behrendt batting .344 and .309, respectively. Hutter is hitting .260 on the season.

• Martin leads the Falcons in runs scored (43), homers (13), RBI (36), total bases (105), stolen bases (15) and slugging pct. (.669). Hunt paces the team in hits (56), doubles (12) and on-base pct. (.425) and is second on the club in runs (28), slugging pct. (.500) and total bases (79). Behrendt and Mathews have drawn 21 walks each, while Hutter has 20 and Hunt 19.

• A total of eight different Falcons have driven in at least 10 runs, after only three Falcons had double-digit RBI totals last season.

• In the circle, six different players have started at least one game each. Junior Mackenzie Krafcik and freshman Morgan Beckham and have made 15 and 14 starts, respectively, while freshman Sydney Marshall has started 10 games and sophomore Alyvia Roth six.

• Krafcik (31), Beckham (28) and senior Scarlet Anderson (23) each have made over 20 appearances. Krafcik has a team-high 104 1/3 innings pitched and is 7-10 with a 4.09 ERA. Anderson has a 4.27 ERA and an opponent batting average of .288 to rank second on the team in both categories, while Beckham has a team-low .266 OBA.

• In MAC play, junior Delaney Davis hit a team-leading .366, while Hunt and Martin batted .329 and .302, respectively. Krafcik had a team-low 3.59 ERA, while Beckham finished with a 3.62 ERA against conference competition.

• A total of 10 positional returnees made at least 10 starts last spring. In the circle, Krafcik made 16 appearances, including 12 starts, and threw 58 2/3 innings in 2024, leading the returning pitchers in all three categories.

THE OPPONENT / THE SERIES
• Robert Morris has an overall record of 26-15, and the Colonials currently sit in second place in the Horizon League standings with a league mark of 16-7. RMU has won 22 of the last 28 games after starting the season with a 4-9 mark. Kaylyn Hopf is batting .388 on the season, pacing no fewer than seven players who are hitting at least .300. Courtney Poulich is batting .349 with team-leading totals of 11 doubles, 12 homers and 47 RBI. In the circle, Madison DeVault is 10-7 with a 2.63 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 111 2/3 innings. Head coach Jexx Varner's club went 20-24 overall and 13-10 in HL play last spring.

• The Falcons lead Robert Morris, 6-2, in the all-time series, and all eight prior meetings have been at neutral sites. The teams last met in 2018, which marked the fifth-straight year that BGSU faced RMU in Cleveland State's season-opening tournament.
4/1/95   vs. Robert Morris $     W (6) 4-2
4/2/95   vs. Robert Morris $     L    2-10
3/4/00   vs. Robert Morris %     W (9) 2-0
2/8/14   vs. Robert Morris #     L (8) 2-3
2/8/15   vs. Robert Morris #     W     3-2
2/14/16  vs. Robert Morris #     W     7-1
2/12/17  vs. Robert Morris #     W     1-0
2/11/18  vs. Robert Morris #     W     8-1
$ Buckeye Invitational (Columbus, Ohio)   
% FIU Golden Panther Inv. (Miami, Fla.)   
# CSU Dome Tournament (Cleveland, Ohio)   

FOLLOW THE FALCONS
• For more information on the BGSU softball team, follow the Falcons on Twitter/X (@BGAthletics and @BGSUSoftball) and Instagram (@bgsu_softball), as well as on the web at BGSUFalcons.com.