Margaret Yerdon, who has been an assistant coach for the past five seasons, has been named the head softball coach at the University of Rochester.[read more]

University of Rochester sophomore Lindsay Macaluso and freshman Kim Grimes have earned two top individual player honors from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference for their softball skills.[read more]

University of Rochester senior pitcher Beth Ameno capped off a brilliant career by being named a Third Team All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. [read more]

Rochester dominated the post-season softball accolades for the Liberty League. The Yellowjackets won the three major individual honors (Player of the Year, Pitcher of the Year, Rookie of the Year) and took the league’s Coaching Staff of the Year award. [read more]

Donnalyn Cross hit a bases-loaded triple in the top of the fifth to snap a 1-1 tie and carry SUNY Cortland to a 7-1 victory over the University of Rochester in a winner’s bracket game of the NCAA Division III playoffs.[read more]

Clark hustled home with the tying run in the sixth.

The win moves Buffalo State into Sunday’s regional final against top-seeded SUNY Cortland. The winner of the regional final advances to the Championship Finals at Montclair State University in the coming week. Cortland advances if the Red Dragons win one game. Buffalo State has to win twice on Sunday.

Rochester finishes its season at 33-12. The Yellowjackets won their first two games of the regionals, then lost to SUNY Cortland, 7-1, on Saturday morning. Buffalo State edged St. John Fisher, 6-4, in eight innings to advance to the Rochester game. Rochester’s total of 33 wins is a program record, breaking the mark of 32 victories set last season.

In the seventh, Lopez walked. Julie Joyce bunted and both runners were safe when Lopez beat the throw to second base. Nicole Maher sacrificed, putting Lopez on third and Joyce on second. Rochester walked Jolene Banach intentionally. Sabuda hit the first pitch to the right side, just beyond the reach of Rochester’s Erin Clark.

The Yellowjackets took a 1-0 lead in the first. Katie McLean tripled and came home on Clark’s sacrifice fly. The Bengals got two hits and two runs in the bottom of the third. Lopez singled to short. Joyce tripled to right center. Maher walked and Banach was called out on strikes. Sabuda grounded to Clark but Lopez slid home just ahead of the tag.

Rochester tied it in the sixth and threatened in the seventh. In the sixth, Clark singled and was sacrificed to second by Beth Ameno. Nikki Lee DiSalvio walked and was replaced by pinch-runner Cara Celorio. Liz Slupinski hit a fly ball to deep center that was dropped. Clark scored, Celorio reached second, and Slupinski was safe at first. Brittany Celeste grounded to third, moving the runners up. M.C. Wagner grounded out to end the inning.

In the Rochester seventh, Juliana Nicholson singled through the left side and Samantha Melvin pinch-ran. Lindsay Macaluso bunted Melvin to second. Buffalo State replaced starting pitcher Aimee Fisher with Jenna Freling. McLean reached on an infield single to third that put runners at the corners. Freling struck out Clark, then walked Ameno intentionally to load the bases. DiSalvio skimmed a liner down the first base line that was speared by Kaylee Lekki. She stepped on first to end the inning.

Freling got the win for the Bengals (32-13). She pitched 0.2 innings, allowing one hit, one walk, and had one strikeout. Ameno took the loss for Rochester. In 6.1 innings, she gave up five hits, three runs (all earned), walked five, and struck out 11. She finished her senior season at 23-9.

The University of Rochester broke the game open with seven runs in the third inning and defeated Keuka College, 10-2, in a second round NCAA softball playoff game at Ithaca College.[read more]

Beth Ameno pitched a one-hitter and struck out six as the University of Rochester defeated King's College of Pennsylvania, 4-0, in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Softball Playoffs at Ithaca College.[read more]

Four University of Rochester student-athletes have earned All-Region honors in softball from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.[read more]

The University of Rochester is seeded second in its bracket for the NCAA Division III Softball Championships being hosted at Ithaca College.[read more]

Three softball players at the University of Rochester have been saluted for their playing acumen this week by a variety of leagues.[read more]

Rochester swept RPI, 7-0, and 6-3, to win its third consecutive Liberty League softball championship. The Yellowjackets are 31-11 overall.[read more]

After battling through nine scoreless innings in the nitecap, Rochester scored three unearned runs in the top of the tenth, then hung on for a 3-2 victory and a softball sweep of St. Lawrence University.[read more]

The University of Rochester ran its softball record to 27-10 by sweeping a doubleheader at Keuka College, 10-3, and 15-8, on Thursday.[read more]

The University of Rochester rallied to score four runs – three unearned – in the bottom of the fifth inning to earn a 4-3 victory over Utica College and a doubleheader sweep of the Pioneers.[read more]

Beth Ameno pitched complete game victories as the University of Rochester swept a softball doubleheader from visiting Union College at GLC Field. [read more]

Beth Ameno and Sara Hutchinson threw complete game shutout victories as Rochester swept a Liberty League softball doubleheader from Skidmore College.[read more]

Kim grimes hit a grand slam home run in the third inning of the nitecap to lead the University of Rochester to a split of its softball doubleheader with Brockport.[read more]

Rochester won the opener on Beth Ameno's one-hitter and gamewinning single in the 8th, then scored 10 runs in the 5th to win the nitecap.[read more]

The University of Rochester and SUNY Cortland split a pair of one-run decisions in a doubleheader involving two nationally-ranked small college softball teams at Rochester’s GLC Field.[read more]

Rochester split a softball doubleheader at St. John Fisher on Thursday, winning the opener, 4-1, before the Cardinals bounced back in the nitecap, 3-2.[read more]

Five members of the University of Rochester softball team have received 2009 Spring Sport All Academic Recognition from the UAA.[read more]

Juliana Nicholson knocked in six runs as the Yellowjackets swept Ithaca College in a softball doubleheader between two nationally-ranked teams.[read more]

The Yellowjackets lost a tough 1-0 pitcher's duel in game one but bounced back for a 3-0 win in game two against RIT.[read more]

Rochester's home softball opener against RIT has been postponed until Friday, March 27 at 3 pm.[read more]

Five softball players from the University of Rochester have been named to the UAA All-Tournament Team for the recently concluded softball championships in Altamonte Springs, Fla.[read more]

Rochester won a pitcher's duel with Washington, 3-0, then over-ran Brandeis, 17-2, to close out the UAA Championships in softball.[read more]

The Yellowjacket softball team got back on track at the UAA Championships by sweeping Emory and Case on Friday.[read more]

Brandeis rallied for three in the fifth and shut down a Rochester rally in the seventh to win, 3-2, at the UAA Softball Championships.[read more]

The Yellowjacket softball team split its games in the UAA Championship Tournament in Florida. Rochester defeated Case, 9-0, then lost, 5-0, to Washington.[read more]

Emory University pushed across the tying run with two outs in the seventh, then erupted for eight runs in the ninth to post a 9-1 win over Rochester.[read more]

Rochester defeated both Moravian and SUNY Plattsburgh in its final at-bat on Saturday to improve to 5-1 overall.[read more]

Lindsay Macaluso hit a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning as Rochester rallied for a 2-1 victory over Alma College of Michigan.[read more]

Senior righthander Beth Ameno pitched a two-hitter and struck out 10 as Rochester opened its 2009 season with a 3-0 win over Capital University.[read more]

Rochester’s softball fortunes in 2009 will be bolstered by an NCAA-tested lineup and strengthened by the influx of a talented and large freshman class.[read more]

Rochester’s softball success over the past two seasons has been recognized in 2009 as the Yellowjackets are ranked in two pre-season polls.[read more]