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Hofstra Milestone Watch Player/Coach Milestone Olivia Galati 59 career wins (1 to 60) Olivia Galati 712 career strikeouts (88 to 800) Rachael Senatore 16 RBI (4 to 20) Another Banner Season: Hofstra earned the regular season CAA championship with a 19-1 conference record in 2011, marking the 20th straight season that the Pride has won either a regular season or a postseason conference title, dating back to an East Coast Conference Tournament title in 1992 (the ECC doesn't even exist anymore). That campaign followed a 2010 season in which Hofstra went 18-2 against the league in winning the regular season and tournament title. The only time Hofstra has not won the CAA regular season title was in 2006, when it won the postseason championship at top-seeded Georgia State. A full list of Hofstra’s streak is below: Hofstra Conference Championships (1992-2011) Year Conference Championship(s) 1992 East Coast Tournament 1993 ECAC Tournament 1994 East Coast Tournament 1995 North Atlantic Reg. Season & Tournament 1996 America East Reg. Season 1997 America East Reg. Season 1998 America East Reg. Season & Tournament 1999 America East Reg. Season & Tournament 2000 America East Reg. Season & Tournament 2001 America East Tournament 2002 CAA Reg. Season & Tournament 2003 CAA Reg. Season & Tournament 2004 CAA Reg. Season & Tournament 2005 CAA Reg. Season & Tournament 2006 CAA Tournament 2007 CAA Reg. Season & Tournament 2008 CAA Reg. Season & Tournament 2009 CAA Reg. Season 2010 CAA Reg. Season & Tournament 2011 CAA Reg. Season Making History: Hofstra won the 2008 Colonial Athletic Association championship with a 3-0 win over James Madison in the title game, marking its 11th conference title in a row, before seeing the streak end in 2009. Hofstra won the first seven CAA titles after the league was founded in 2002, and also won the final four America East Conference championships it participated in from 1998-2001. No Division I school had ever won 10 straight conference titles prior to the Pride's run, which ended with a 3-1 defeat to Georgia State in 12 innings. Massachusetts won nine in a row in the Atlantic 10 from 1995-2003, which was the previous record. Consecutive Conference Championships (Division I) Streak School Years 11 Hofstra 1998-2008 9 Massachusetts 1995-2003 8 Florida Atlantic 1997-2004 8* Louisiana-Lafayette 1987, 2000-06 7 Princeton 1983-89 * Louisiana-Lafayette won the 1987 Southland Conference title, played as an independent for 12 years, then won seven straight championships in the Sun Belt Conference from 2000-06. About Head Coach Bill Edwards: Bill Edwards is in his 23rd season as Hofstra University’s Head Softball Coach, and he has led the Pride to national prominence during that time. His career record is currently 806-384-3, making him one of only 19 active coaches in the country with 800 career wins. He was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Hall of Fame in December of 2009. The last decade saw Edwards and the Pride achieve new levels of success, including the 2004 campaign, when it went on a remarkable postseason run that saw it come up one win shy of the Women’s College World Series. Hofstra won at least one game in the last eight NCAA Tournaments it has played in, and has reached the regional finals four times. Over the last seven years, the Pride has NCAA wins over Nebraska, Creighton, Auburn, Stanford, Oklahoma State, Arizona State, Southern Illinois and Penn State. The Hofstra Softball program has also displayed consistent excellence over the last 20 years. Edwards and company have garnered 12 NCAA Tournament appearances (1993, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010), two East Coast Conference Championships (1992 and 1994), five America East Championships (1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001), eight CAA Championships (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010) and an ECAC Championship (1993). In each of the last 20 years under Edwards, the Pride has won either a regular season or a postseason conference title, including a streak of 11 straight tournament championships from 1998-2008, something no team in NCAA Division I history had previously accomplished. The previous long was nine straight conference titles, which UMass accomplished in the Atlantic 10 from 1995-2003. Edwards, who has never had a losing season during his Hofstra tenure, also coached the Pride to a #21 ranking in the final 2004 NCAA Division I Softball Poll, and a #20 ranking in the final 1994 poll. In addition, he has led the Pride to #1 rankings in the Northeast Region Poll in 1993, 1994, 1997 and 2000. Edwards has also been named the Regional Coach of the Year 10 times in his career (1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), including six of the last eight years and has been named the CAA Coach of the year in each of the last four years. Prior to coming to Hofstra, Edwards coached softball for nine years at Commack High School on Long Island. During his tenure at Commack, his teams reached the Suffolk County Class A tournament seven times. Edwards and his wife, Janie, have two daughters, Shari, who played NCAA Division I softball at Northern Illinois University and coached at Hofstra, and Karen, a licensed practical nurse. Edwards received a bachelor’s in physical education from Northern Michigan in 1967 and a master’s from Stony Brook in 1975.
Galati Named To Player of the Year Watch List: Junior pitcher Olivia Galati (West Babylon, N.Y.) was one of 50 players chosen to the USA Softball Preseason National Player of the Year watch list, it was announced on Feb. 2. Galati finished last season with a 29-8 record, a 1.24 ERA and 348 strikeouts. She posted a 14-1 record and a 0.97 ERA in CAA games, while shutting out every CAA team at least once (including Georgia State three times). Hope She Has A Big Mantelpiece: Olivia Galati was named the CAA Pitcher of the Year for a second straight time, following a freshman season in 2010 in which she captured both Pitcher and Rookie of the Year honors (in addition to CAA first-team and All-Rookie Team selections). She also won five CAA Pitcher of the Week awards in her second season as a stellar encore to a freshman year in which she won five Rookie of the Week awards and was a four-time Pitcher of the Week. Bill Edwards Olivia Galati Jess Hirschbuhl Tessa Ziemba D.J. Slugh Krista Thorn Hofstra CAA Postseason Awards Co-Coach of Year Pitcher of Year First Team (2B) First Team (OF) First Team (DP) Second Team (3B) Experience: Hofstra has 11 juniors and seniors on the roster and returns its top-four hitting players. Overall, nine of the Pride’s 10 highest-average players are returning as 2011 CAA Player of the Year Sara Michalowski is the only one not coming back due to graduation. Pulling Rank: Hofstra has packed the non-conference schedule with a slew of challenging opponents, including five that are nationally ranked in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 poll released on Feb. 14. The Pride opened play against No. 21 Louisville has already opposed Tennessee (10), Michigan (12), Louisiana-Lafayette (17) and faced No. 14 UCLA in the Citrus Classic. Just Say No: Olivia Galati propelled Hofstra to its first win of the 2012 season by tossing a five-inning no-hitter in the Pride's 10-0 victory over Virginia Tech on March 2.Galati struck out seven with the only base-runner for the Hokies coming on a first-inning walk. The win marked Galati's fourth-career no-hitter, tying Kayleigh Lotti for the thirdmost in program history. It was Galati's first no-hitter since tossing one in the Pride Opening Day victory over UNC Greensboro to start the 2011 campaign. That no-hitter also came in an abbreviated game thanks to Hofstra taking a 16- 0 lead in that contest. Twice As Nice: Olivia Galati looked comfortable in her first home appearances of the season, recording two wins and picking up a save in the Pride’s 3-1 showing in the Hofstra Invitational from March 17-18. She set a career high with 18 strikeouts in a 1-0, nine-inning win over Maine on March 17. That broke her previous career high of 17 strikeouts, which was last set in a contest that also went nine innings (a 3-2 win over Michigan State on March 11, 2011). Galati followed that up with a five-inning completegame shutout in an 8-0 win over UConn on March 18. Along with a five-out save in the first game against UConn, Galati totaled 19 shutout innings in four appearances, striking out 31 while walking just one batter. Fresh Take: Freshman Erin Trippi ensured her first collegiate home game was a memorable one when she blasted the game-winning base hit to right to end a nineinning 1-0 victory over Maine on March 17. Trippi’s firstcareer RBI brought in Tessa Ziemba for the game-winning run. In the four-game Hofstra Invitational tournament, Trippi went 4-for-12 with five RBIs. In The Rankings: With just seven walks in 66 1/3 innings, Olivia Galati is climbing up the national leaderboard in the fewest walks-allowed per seven innings category. Galati is allowing an average of .74 walks-per-game, which ranks fourth nationally in Division I. Hawaii's Kaia Parnaby is the current leader with .65 per game (minimum 50 innings pitched). With four shutouts, Galati is also tied for 29th nationally. In CAA play, Galati has the lowest ERA (1.58) for pitchers with more than five innings, allowing just 15 earned runs in 66 1/3 innings. Senior Courtney Crews earned a spot on a national leaderboard the hard way, getting hit by a pitch seven times in 17 games for a .41 average that is 13th-most. Junior Becca Bigler's four home runs leads the team and is tied for third in the CAA. She is just two off for the league lead. Opposition Scouting: The Pride hold the all-time series lead against Georgia State, carrying a 21-10 record into the weekend. The matchup will also pit the two teams that have been the class of the CAA. Georgia State won the final two games of the conference tournament to win the league championship in 2011. That came one season after Hofstra beat the Panthers at home to win the 2010 CAA Tournament. The two teams were picked as the co-favorites in the CAA preseason poll entering the current campaign. Georgia State is off to a 20-7 start, including victories in seven of its last nine games before the Panthers face Georgia on Wednesday. Like Hofstra, Georgia State also faces a dependable ace in sophomore pitcher Kaitlyn Medlam, who has a 2.22 ERA that is ranked third in the CAA. Medlam is 7-1. 300 K's: Olivia Galati ended her freshman season with 294 strikeouts on the year. All she did for an encore was become the second player in program history to record 300 strikeouts in a season when she fanned 348 in just 242.2 innings in 2011. Only Kayleigh Lotti had posted a 300- strikeout season (coming in 2007). Hofstra Single-Season Strikeout Leaders K's Player Year 348 Olivia Galati 2011 319 Kayleigh Lotti 2007 294 Olivia Galati 2010 277 Erin Phillips 1996 241 Kayleigh Lotti 2008 236 Kayleigh Lotti 2009
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