Immaculata Softball vs Marywood
Atlantic East Conference Tournament
Hosted by Marymount at Shenandoah University
Saturday, May 3rd| 1:00 PM
Rotary Field| Winchester, Va.
 
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THE STORYLINE

• The Immaculata softball team finished their 2025 regular season 14-22 overall, and 5-5 in Atlantic East Conference play. Immaculata qualified for the Atlantic East Conference Tournament for the first time since 2022. Immaculata is the third seed in the four-team double elimination tournament and will play the number two seed Marywood in their first game.
• The AEC Tournament is being hosted by Marymount University at Shenandoah University's Rotary Field at Jim Barnett Park in Winchester, Va. 
• Immaculata enters the AEC Tournament after dropping both games of their doubleheader on Sunday at Marywood.
• Marywood (19-17, 7-3) overall enters the AEC Tournament as the second seed and has won four games in a row after sweeping SUNY-Delhi in a doubleheader on Tuesday.

 
THE SERIES

• Immaculata and Marywood are meeting for the 42^nd time in their series that began in 2007.
• Immaculata is 13-27 all-time vs Marywood.
• This will be the team's fourth meeting in the postseason, first in the AEC Tournament. The previous three meetings were as members of the CSAC with Immaculata winning two out of the three post season meetings.

 
SEASON MATCH-UP VS AEC TOURNAMENT TEAMS

• Immaculata fell to Marywood 11-4 and 8-0 on Sunday in their season doubleheader.
• Immaculata split with Neumann in their doubleheader on April 5^th losing game one 6-4, before taking game two 10-2 in five innings.
• Immaculata swept their doubleheader at Marymount on March 29^th winning 11-7, and 5-3.

 
MIGHTY MAC NOTES

• Jess Oldham leads Immaculata batting .440 (51-116) with 26 runs scored, seven home runs, and a program single season record 50 RBIs.
• Carlee Karcher is batting .364 (36-99) with 16 runs scored, three home runs, and 16 RBIs.
• Maddy Formica is batting .363 (37-102) with 25 runs scored, 14 RBIs, and five stolen bases.
• Bryele Anthony is batting .358 (44-123) with 36 runs scored, 14 RBIs, and a program single season record 35 stolen bases. She swiped her 100^th career stolen base on Sunday at Marywood.
• Kate Daly is batting .320 (24-75) with 16 runs scored, six RBIs, and seven stolen bases.
• Steph Kelly is batting .316 (18-57) with 18 runs scored, two RBIs, and eight stolen bases.
• Allison Hill is batting .311 (28-90) with 15 RBIs.
• Rylee Martin is batting .277 (28-101) with 16 runs scored, two home runs, and 22 RBIs.
• Riece Onorato is 8-6 with a 3.76 ERA in 17 appearances with 15 starts. In 93.0 innings pitched she has 45 strikeouts.
• Emma Mercadante is 5-11 in eighteen appearances with 15 starts. In 95.2 innings she pitched, she had 41 strikeouts.

 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS

• Marywood earned the second seed in the tournament, going 7-3 AEC play. Marywood, who began the season 1-3 in conference play, won their final six conference games.
• Neumann finished the regular season in a three-way tie with Immaculata and Gwynedd Mercy won the fourth seed, by virtue of their season split with Marymount. On the verge of missing the playoffs entering the top of the seventh inning vs Gwynedd Mercy on Sunday trailing 5-2, the Knights rallied for seven runs to win the game 9-5 to earn their spot in the AEC Tournament.
• Marymount finished at the top of the AEC Standings due to their sweep of Marywood after both teams finished 7-3. Marymount recovered from dropping both games of their AEC season opening doubleheader to Immaculata, by going 7-1 in their final eight AEC games.

 
HEAD COACH STEFANIE FEINSTEIN ON ATLANTIC EAST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
 
"I am excited for a great weekend. The table is set with a very even playing field," stated Head Coach Stefanie Feinstein. "All three of the other opponents are playing good softball right now, which should make for a fun tournament."
 
Immaculata will face the challenging task of matching up against Marywood for a third straight game. When asked what her team needs to do to be successful on Saturday Feinstein said "I do not think this past weekend was a true representation of who we are as a team when we competed against Marywood. I truly feel that if we stay in control of the momentum and play our game, then we will be fine."
 
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again, there is something special about this team and I think we are all going to get to witness it this weekend," concluded Feinstein. "It has been a few years since we have been in the playoffs. This team has worked so hard and deserves all the success."
 
AEC TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
 
Saturday, May 3^rd
 
Game One:        #1 Marymount vs #4 Neumann               11:00 a.m.
Game Two:        #2 Marywood vs #3 Immaculata             1:00 p.m.
Game Three:     Loser of game One vs Loser of game two (Loser Eliminated) 3:00 p.m.
Game Four:       Winner of game One vs Winner of game two     5:00 p.m.
 
Sunday, Mary 4^th
 
Game Five:        Winner of game three vs loser of game four (Loser Eliminated) 12:00 p.m.
Game Six:          Winner of game three vs winner of game 5         2:00 p.m.
Game Seven:    Repeat game if necessary (switch home and away)      4:00 p.m.
 
The winner of the Conference Championship will earn the AEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.