The UMBC Softball team completes the home portion of its schedule when it welcomes UMass Lowell to The Diamond for a three-game series this weekend. Games start at noon on both days, with Saturday being a doubleheader.

Saturday's noon game will be UMBC's NFCA StrikeOut Cancer game, which will feature a pregame honoring of friends and family of the program who have fought cancer. The Retrievers senior class will be honored in a ceremony prior to Sunday's game.

Scouting the Retrievers:

• UMBC enters play with a 24-8, 8-4 AE record
• Courtney Coppersmith (York, Pa.) threw her ninth career no-hitter on Wednesday, but the Retrievers fell to host Stony Brook, 2-0, in a game that featured no hits for either team
• On Thursday,  Freshman pitcher Kya Matter (Dalmatia, Pa.) was named one of twenty five student-athletes that are in the running for the 2022 Schutt Sports/NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award, the Association revealed on Thursday afternoon. Matter is UMBC's second ever nominee, and first since Coppersmith in 2019. 
• Sierra Pierce (Youngstown, Ohio) is the eams leading hitter with a .375 average, 36 hits, 10 doubles and 49 stolen bases.
• She also has a homer, 16 RBI and a team-high nine stolen bases.
• The fifth year has only struck out four times all season. 

Scouting the River Hawks:

• UMass Lowell enters the weekend at 23-15, 7-4 AE
• UML split a home doubleheader with Maine on Wednesday, dropping the first game 9-4 before taking game two, 13-7
• Graduate student Maria Moccio went 6-for-8 at the plate and had two RBI
• Junior Cayla Tulley and sophomore Morgan Fisher each knocked in three RBI in the second game