Irish Drop Series Finale to Pitt

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Notre Dame Softball team dropped Sunday’s series finale to Pittsburgh 5-1. The Irish still secured the series after winning Friday and Saturday night. Notre Dame is now 18-21-1 on the season and 6-9 in conference play. 

Notre Dame has now won back-to-back conference series after taking two of three from both then No. 22 Virginia and Pitt. 

The Panthers scored three early unearned runs in the first off Irish starter Kami Kamzik. Kamzik settled down after that, throwing scoreless second and third innings while striking out four.

Brianne Weiss threw an inning and two-thirds with two strikeouts while Shannon Becker had a hitless stint of two and one-third innings, striking out three. The Irish pitching staff struckout nine on the day.

Both Rachel Allen and Caroline O’Brien extended their hit-streaks to seven games apiece. Allen grounded a ball up the middle in the fourth for a single while O’Brien roped a line drive single into right center in the fifth.

Anna Holloway notched her 7th RBI of the series with a sacrifice fly to the warning track in center field to score Kaia Cortes that put the Irish on the board in the bottom of the sixth.

Notre Dame is back in action for five games this upcoming week. The Irish will host DePaul on Tuesday and Bowling Green on Wednesday before heading to Blacksburg to take on the 11th-ranked Hokies of Virginia Tech for a three-game series over the weekend.

Tuesday night’s game is set for a 5 p.m. first pitch on ACC Network Extra while Wednesday night will begin at 8 p.m. nationally on ACC Network. Admission to all regular season Notre Dame softball games is free.