The University of Notre Dame softball team lost to Louisville 13-5 in seven innings during Sunday’s rubber match at Melissa Cook Stadium, according to an April 12 announcement. Freshman Lily Hagan hit two home runs for the Irish, both bringing in two runs each.
Hagan’s performance marked her fifth and sixth home runs of the season, which leads the team. She has now homered in five of her last seventeen at bats and has achieved multiple home run games on back-to-back weekends after a similar feat against Florida State last Thursday.
Notre Dame recorded eleven hits as a team and struck out only three times across thirty-two at bats. Four players—Hagan, Caroline O’Brien, Ava Zachary, and Sydny Poeck—each had multi-hit games. Zachary also drove in a run, raising her season total to twenty-three RBIs.
The loss brings Notre Dame’s record to seventeen wins and twenty-five losses overall (six wins and twelve losses in Atlantic Coast Conference play), while Louisville improves to thirty-four wins and nine losses (ten wins and five losses in conference).
Looking ahead, Notre Dame will play five games this week starting with Indiana on Tuesday night. The first pitch is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Big Ten Plus.
