***This story has been updated since its original release. Toledo and Bowling Green will now play a 1:00 p.m. double header on Friday due to weather, but game three is still TBD.

Toledo, Ohio - The Toledo softball team (9-17) travels down the highway to Bowling Green (12-16) this weekend for the annual Battle of I-75 series. The Rockets and Falcons are scheduled to open the series with a double header at Meserve Field on Friday at 1:00 p.m. but a decision has not been made as to when the final game of the series will be played. Fans are encouraged to follow @ToledoSoftball on Twitter for further updates. 
 
Toledo at Bowling Green
Meserve Field | March 29-30
Weekend Live Stats
Toledo Game Notes
BGSU Game Notes
A live broadcast of the games will not be available.
 
Last Time Out
The Midnight Blue and Gold hosted Kent State last weekend for the home opener, going 1-2 in the series after falling 6-1 and 8-6 in games one and two but rallying to a 5-2 victory in the series closer. Senior 3B Katie Cozy was the weekend standout for Toledo after going 6-for-10 with eight RBIs, one sac fly, and two homers in 11 plate appearances. The senior only struck out once, is now leading a six-game hitting streak, and is tied for seventh-most RBIs in the conference (17) after the weekend. With Cozy's contributions, UT recorded 20 hits and 12 runs through two days of action.
 
Last Time Against the Falcons
Toledo swept Bowling Green at home in the three-game series last season, winning 8-2, 5-4 and 5-1 in the first weekend of April while also establishing a six-game winning streak. Freshman Bailey Curry launched her 10th home run of the season in game one, and fellow first-year Bekah Yenrick left the park too.
 
Day two featured a sixth-inning rally in the middle game that helped UT complete a come-from-behind victory, and the weekend was closed by senior Sam Showalter notching her first dinger of the year in a sixth inning rally in the final game.
 
Scouting the Rockets

• Sophomore Raelyn Nyren ranks first in the conference and second in the nation for HBP. The Ham Lake, Minn. has been nailed 10 times this year.
• Senior Megan Choate has the sixth-best OBP in the MAC (.479). Choate also leads the conference in walks (21) and ranks 17th in the nation. Two more and she'll tie her career-high record set last season.
• Sophomore Erin Hunt's 78 strikeouts are the fifth-most in the MAC, and her 8.2 Ks per inning rank third.
• Sophomore Kylie Norwood and freshman Brianna Robeson are currently riding six game hitting streaks. Norwood also leads the team in multi-hit and multi-RBI games with 9 and 6, respectively.
• Yenrick has reached base in nine consecutive outings, the most on the team. Senior Kaitlyn Bergman has reached in her last eight, and Choate has done it in her last seven.

 
All-time record vs BGSU: 38-65
2018 record and RPI: 35-23, 16-7 MAC | 120
2019 record and RPI: 9-17, 0-3 MAC | 195
Top pitcher(s):

• Erin Hunt: 5-6 through 14 app/10 starts, 3.26 ERA, 66.2 IP, 57 H, 38 R, 36 BB, 78 K, .228 Opp/b.avg
• Maggie McGurk: 3-2 through 10 app/4 starts, 2.41 ERA, 32.0 IP, 41 H, 21 R, 15 BB, 15 K, .315 Opp/b.avg

Top batter:

• Kylie Norwood: 23-for-90 (.356), 18 R, 6 2B, 3 HR, 19 RBI, 47 TB, .522 SLG%, 5 BB, .385 OBP

Batters over .300: Three
Team slash line: .246/.351/.359
   
Scouting the Falcons

• Bowling Green is coming off a midweek double header at Purdue Fort Wayne where the Orange and Brown walked away with a pair of wins (6-3, 5-1). Senior pitcher Meredith Miller held onto a no-no into the sixth inning of game one.
• Sisters Alex (senior CF) and Nikki Sorgi (sophomore 2B) have been a dynamic duo for the Falcons so far this season. Their names appear a combined eight times on the MAC's top-10 lists this year, with Alex tied for fifth in runs scored (20) and Nikki sitting fifth for RBIs (20).
• Junior SS Madi McCoy is riding a 13-game base reaching streak,

 
All-time record vs UT: 65-38
2018 record and RPI: 26-26, 8-14 MAC | 195
2019 record and RPI: 12-16, 0-3 MAC | 227
Top pitcher(s):

• Brooke Parker: 4-6 through 17 app/11 starts, 3.16 ERA, 68.2 IP, 79 H, 48 R, 27 BB, 46 K, .279 Opp/b.avg
• Meredith Miller: 8-8 through 21 app/16 starts, 3.48 ERA, 94.2 IP, 87 H, 70 R, 46 BB, 99 K, .235 Opp/b.avg

Top batter:

• Madi McCoy: 25-for-60 (.417), 13 R, 2 2B, 6 HR, 22 RBI, 45 TB, 4 BB, .750 SLG%, .453 OBP
• Nikki Sorgi: 28-for-74 (.378), 16 R8 2B, 3 HR, 20 RBI, 45 TB, 10BB, .608 SLG%, .453 OBP

Batters over .300: Six
Team slash line: .286/.376/.457