JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 2, 2025) – East Tennessee State University softball will play its final regular season series of the season this weekend against Chattanooga.
Gameday Central vs. Chattanooga – Presented by ETSU College of Public Health
Game 1
DATE: Saturday, May 3
TIME: 5 p.m.
LOCATION: Johnson City, Tenn.
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Game 2
DATE: Sunday, May 4
TIME: 1 p.m.
LOCATION: Johnson City, Tenn.
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Game 3
DATE: Sunday, May 4
TIME: 3 p.m.
LOCATION: Johnson City, Tenn.
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The Bucs enter the weekend jockeying for position in the SoCon standings with Furman and Western Carolina. ETSU dropped both series with the Paladins and Catamounts, and thus does not hold either tiebreaker. Furman plays Mercer this weekend, while WCU takes on UNCG.
Cameron Young was named the SoCon Preseason Player of the Year and her season has lived up to it. The Knoxville, Tenn., native is hitting .400 on the season with 58 hits, 27 runs scored, 26 RBI and a team-high ten doubles. Her 56 career doubles are the most in program history and she's one of two Buccaneers to start all 49 games this season.
Sara Muir has been invaluable for ETSU at the plate and in the circle during her last year in Johnson City. The team leader in walks drawn (24) and RBI (29), Muir also has a team-low 3.32 ERA through 50.2 IP, including a complete-game shutout of Wofford to give ETSU a 2-0 win over the Terriers last week.
Riley Nayadley has also had a strong senior season as the other Buc, along with Young, to start all 49 games. Nayadley is hitting .320 with seven doubles in her last year in Johnson City after spending all four years as a Buc. The Chattanooga native has a trio of three-hit games this season, and had a pair of RBI in ETSU's run-rule rout of Winthrop.
Halle Laramie has spent her last two years at ETSU after starting her career at Walters State. Laramie's best game of her senior campaign came against Maine, when she had a two-RBI double and scored a run in the Bucs' 12-6 victory.
Nayana DeAmelia transferred to ETSU as a grad student for her final season of softball after playing at both Herkimer CCC and The College of Saint Rose. The Warrensburg, N.Y., native hit her lone home run and the Bucs' third of the season in a comeback effort against Louisiana Tech.
Chattanooga enters the weekend needing just one win or a UNC Greensboro loss to clinch the regular season SoCon Championship. The Mocs are led at the plate by Olivia Lipari, who's hitting .364 with seven homers and 37 RBI. Presley Williamson and Acelynn Sellers are tied for the team lead in home runs with eight each, and Chattanooga has hit a conference-best 15 triples as a team.
In the circle, Peja Goold has a 1.44 ERA and .95 WHIP to go with her 22-5 record. Goold and Taylor Long (2.40 ERA) have thrown the lion's share of the innings for UTC and are first and second in the conference with 210 and 145 strikeouts, respectively. Goold's ERA ranks eighth nationally and her 210 strikeouts is the ninth best mark in the country.
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