WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Starting an eight-game stretch away from home, the Purdue softball team will head out for a four-game series this weekend at Illinois. All games will be streamed on Big Ten Network+.
SERIES INFORMATION
Purdue (7-17) vs. Illinois (15-9)
April 16-18
Friday – 6 PM | Saturday – 2 & 4:30 PM | Sunday – 1 PM
(All times Eastern)
TV: Big Ten Network+
Stats: purduestats.com
The Boilermakers took a game off Indiana last week, despite dropping the point in the Governor's Cup. Kaitlyn Brannstrom and Cora Bassett account for eight of Purdue's 10 RBI on the weekend against the Hoosiers. The Boilermakers' pitching staff struck out 18 over the four games with just six walks against.
Rachel Becker continues to sit second in the Big Ten in batting average with a .427 clip on the year. The junior has a .506 slugging percentage and a .627 on-base mark to go along with a team-high 20 runs scored. Becker also has a team-best 12 multi-hit games this season.
NOTES
• Illinois leads the all-time series 29-16.
• Cora Bassett's three-RBI triple in the series finale took her total runs batted in up to a Big Ten-leading 21 on the year.
• Kaitlyn Brannstom enters the weekend with six runs driven in over the last eight games, a team high.
• Kiley Goff has reached base in each of the last 11 games, the best streak by the Boilermakers this season.
• The Boilermakers have plated 40 of their 71 runs on the year in the fifth inning or later.
• Purdue's pitching staff has only surrendered eight home runs on the year, good for fourth fewest in the Big Ten.
• Ashley Peters, Purdue's most used bullpen arm, has not allowed her last five inherited runners to score.
• Rookie Savanah Henley has a team-low 1.83 ERA as a starter over 30 2/3 innings, including just five earned runs allowed over her last four starts.