Virginia Continues Road Swing At Maryland Tuesday

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Virginia softball team (15-7) continues play on the road Tuesday with a single game at Maryland (8-13) at 6 p.m.

HOW TO FOLLOW THE ACTION
Tuesday’s game will be streamed on B1G Plus and is available through subscription. Live stats are also available for the game and links to both the stream and live stats are at VirginiaSports.com. Fans can also get updates by following the program’s official account (@UVASoftball) on X.

QUICK HITS

• The game at Maryland closes a stretch of five straight on the road for the Cavaliers who have played 15-of-22 games away from home at this point of the season.
• Jade Hylton continues to lead the Hoos at the plate with a .343 average and a team-leading 17 RBI and is tied for the team lead in runs scored (11), home runs (5) and has nine stolen bases.
• Bella Cabral had a solid week at the plate last week, hitting .500 with two home runs, five RBI and four runs scored to pace the offense.
• Leah Boggs was the driving force for the North Carolina series with a .500 batting average with three runs scored and went 2-for-2 in steal attempts.
• Madison Harris continues to deliver in the circle with an ERA of 0.31 that is tops in the ACC and ranks in the top 10 nationally. She struck out all five batters faced in 1.2 innings of relief work in game two at UNC.
• Eden Bigham threw a complete-game shutout for the second straight weekend in ACC play with her outing on Friday in the series opener against North Carolina.

THE SERIES WITH THE TERPS

• Virginia and Maryland have met 60 times with the Cavaliers leading the series 34-26.
• The teams last met a year ago in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge with the Terrapins taking both of the neutral-site contests. Maryland won those games 2-1 and 6-4.
• The teams are 2-2 in the last four games as the series in 2019 with the Hoos taking wins in the single-game meetings in 2019 and 2022. Virginia won those games 7-1 and 10-2 (5 innings), respectively.
• This will be the first game at Maryland since the 2019 meeting, but nine of the last 10 meetings have come at Maryland or at neutral sites.