ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan softball team (21-13, 2-7 Big Ten) will conclude its seven-game homestand with a rescheduled matchup against Oakland at 4 p.m. on Wednesday (April 1) at the Wilpon Complex, home of Carol Hutchins Stadium and Alumni Field.<\/p>\n
The Wolverines will then travel to Rosemont, Ill., for a three-game set against Northwestern this weekend (Fri-Sun., April 3-5). The teams will square off at 7 p.m. CT on Friday and Saturday night and wrap the series at 1:30 p.m. CT on Sunday. All three games will be played at the Ballpark at Rosemont while the Wildcats’ stadium is under renovation this season.<\/p>\n
Notes<\/p>\n
\u2022 Three Wolverines batted .667 over last weekend’s three-game series against Purdue. Senior outfielder Indiana Langford<\/a>, sophomore outfielder Lauren Putz<\/a> and junior RHP Erin Hoehn<\/a> all went 6-for-9 and added two free passes for matching .727 on-base percentages over the series. The trio, who make up three of Michigan’s first four in the lineup, combined for 16 runs scored and 11 RBI.<\/p>\n \u2022 With a .431 batting average through 34 games this season, Hoehn boasts an incredible 222-point improvement over her previous career best (.222). She owns career highs in every offensive category and ranks third on the team in batting average, slugging percentage (.708) and on-base percentage (.473).<\/p>\n \u2022 Hoehn also posted a 2-0 record against the Boilermakers from the circle, including a complete-game effort on Friday when she held the Boilermakers to one unearned run on four hits and two walks, with four strikeouts from the circle.<\/p>\n \u2022 Langford has successfully reached base in all 19 games since returning to the Wolverines’ lineup at the start of the Wolverines’ spring break trip after her early-season finger injury. Langford ranks second on the team with a .435 batting average — a 29-point improvement on her team-high .406 average last season — and a .551 on-base percentage from the leadoff spot.<\/p>\n \u2022 Putz ranks top-20 nationally in several offensive categories, listing 16th in on-base percentage (.581) and walks per game (.88), 17th in slugging percentage (.989) and 20th in RBI (46). Her team-best .462 batting average — a 70-point improvement on her rookie season average — ranks 37th nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan softball team (21-13, 2-7 Big Ten) will conclude its seven-game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-246312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}