Starting today, Hofstra University will host the 2023 Softball Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tournament at Bill Edwards Stadium.

Hofstra exited the regular season 24-24 overall and 16-7 in conference play and enters the tournament as the third seed.

Kasey Collins, Chelsea Manto and Meghan Giordano pose an offensive threat from the Pride’s perspective. Collins and Manto made the All-CAA first team, and Giordano made the All-CAA Second Team. On top of their CAA accolades, they finished the year batting above .300, and Collins enters the tournament with a 15-game on-base streak. To round it out, freshman Alanna Morse made the All-Rookie team after batting .288 and started in 20 games.

The Pride will start their CAA tournament run against their Long Island rival Stony Brook as the seventh-seeded Seawolves overthrew the sixth-seeded College of Charleston Cougars 5-3 earlier this afternoon. Going into the tournament, Stony Brook’s record was 25-25 overall and 9-13 in conference play.

Stony Brook has had plenty of offensive production themselves, starting with Alyssa Costello and Alicia Orosco. Costello leads the team in batting average and OPS at .378 and 1.025 respectively, while also landing All-CAA First Team honors. Orosco is second in batting average at .341 but leads the team in hits with 57. On top of that, the Seawolves also boast Naiah Ackerman, who made the All-CAA Rookie Team. Ackerman had a .288 batting average and started in 20 games, leading the freshman pack in hits with 17, RBIs with 10 and home runs with two.

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