Softball Drops Series Opener to Northwestern

Friday, April 20

Piscataway, N.J.

3 PM

Rutgers University

17-24, 2-10

Northwestern

27-13, 9-5

Northwestern

Rutgers

Apr 20 | Softball

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Anyssa Iliopoulos hits her third home run of the season for Rutgers

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (April 20, 2018) – Rutgers softball dropped the opener of a three-game set with Northwestern by a score of 15-1 in five innings on Friday afternoon at the RU Softball Complex.

The Scarlet Knights (17-24, 2-10 B1G) could not overcome four home runs and seven overall extra base hits by the torrid lineup from Northwestern (27-13, 9-5).

Sophomore Anyssa Iliopoulos hit her third home run of the season to put Rutgers on the board in the bottom of the fifth. As the 2-2 pitch landed over the left field fence, it marked Iliopoulos' second pinch-hit home run of the season and ups her average in pinch-hit situations to .333 (3-of-9).

Junior shortstop Jess Hughes led off the bottom of the first for the Scarlet Knights with a base hit and added a walk in the third to increase her slash line in Big Ten contests to .419/.452/.591.

Senior catcher Sierra Maddox, sophomore left fielder Hailey Hoklotubbe and freshman second baseman Myah Moy added base hits for Rutgers. For Hoklotubbe, it was her career-long 11^th straight game reaching base safely, as she is hitting .300 over that span with a .382 on-base percentage.

Rutgers and the Wildcats pick up the series on Saturday, April 21 with Game 2 slated for 1 p.m. on Letterwinners Day at the RU Baseball and Softball Complexes.

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L, 5-10

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Kenna Wilkey (13-4)

L: Jones, Whitney (8-12)

Northwestern

Batting:

2B: Sammy Nettling 1 ; Marissa Panko 1

3B: Sabrina Rabin 1

HR: Sabrina Rabin 1 ; Rachel Lewis 1 ; Morgan Nelson 1 ; Kenna Wilkey 1

RBI: Sabrina Rabin 3 ; Rachel Lewis 1 ; Morgan Nelson 2 ; Sammy Nettling 2 ; Marissa Panko 2 ; Emma Bartz 1 ; Lily Novak 1 ; Summer Hargett 1 ; Kenna Wilkey 2

SF: Summer Hargett 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Sabrina Rabin 3 ; Rachel Lewis 2 ; Morgan Nelson 3 ; Sammy Nettling 2 ; Maegan Hollins 1 ; Marissa Panko 1 ; Kenna Wilkey 1 ; Brooke Marquez 1 ; Mac Dunlap 1