Softball Team Plays Patriot League Home Opener Tomorrow

BU Today

The BU softball team, which captured the Patriot League title last year, is off to a rocky start this season. To date, they’ve gone just 8-20, battling bad weather that’s led to delays and cancellations.
The Terriers are determined to get back on track this weekend when they host Holy Cross in their Patriot League home opener, a three-game set with the Crusaders that begins tomorrow, Saturday, April 8, at noon.
After an opening stretch that saw the team turn in a 5-4 record, BU has dropped 13 of 16 and 8 in a row. It has also seen 12 other games canceled or postponed, with torrential rain and late snowstorms keeping the Terriers off their own field for all but one of their 8 scheduled home contests to date.
“We haven’t even practiced on our field yet,” head coach Ashley Waters says. “We’re in April, and we’ve hardly even stepped foot on the dirt, aside from one game against Bryant.”
That doesn’t mean the Terriers, who started 0-3 in Patriot League play for the second consecutive season after a conference-opening sweep at the hands of Lehigh, have abandoned hopes of winning another Patriot League title.
“Despite everything in the preseason, who we’ve been playing, whatever, we’re 0-3 right now,” says Alex Heinen (CGS’17), who has hit five home runs for the Terriers this season. “We were 0-3 with Army last season. We have a lot of games left. Not that we have a whole lot of time, but it starts this weekend. I have all the confidence in the world in our team. We want it for each other.”
Part of that confidence comes from the purposefully rigorous preconference slate the team has played. Gabi Martinez (SAR’17) says that facing tough competitors early in the season helps her and her teammates understand their strengths and shortcomings heading ...

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