Rider Softball
Apr. 1, 2026 – 3:00 PM
Rider Broncs (15-14, 7-4 MAAC) vs. Penn Quakers (12-14, 3-3 IVY)
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ (Herb and Joan Young Field)
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What You Need To Know
- The Broncs return to action Wednesday, hosting Penn in a .
- Last time out, the Broncs took two of three from Quinnipiac, who entered the weekend as the top team in the MAAC. Gabi Rodriguez (Chula Vista, CA/Olympian) was dominant in the circle, tossing a pair of complete-game victories, allowing just a single earned run in both games.
- Rider was picked sixth in the preseason coaches poll with 2025 All-MAAC Second Team selection Kendall Reda-Fehsal (Succasunna, NJ/Roxbury) being selected to the Preseason All-MAAC Team at infield. Fellow 2025 Second-Team All-MAAC honoree Abby Cruz (Corona, CA/Santiago) returns behind the plate and Aspen Wheeler (Lampasas, TX/Lampasas) returns after a MAAC All-Rookie Team campaign in 2025.
- Reda-Fehsal was named MAAC Player of the Week Mar. 24 after helping the Broncs to a 3-1 week. She hit a three-run double and scored in Rider's 4-3 win over Princeton, then capped the week with a walk-off grand slam to secure Rider's sweep of Army West Point.
- The Broncs are leading the MAAC this season and rank 61^st nationally, averaging 5.69 runs per game. The offense has been led by extra base hits with the Broncs leading the MAAC and ranking 25^th in the country in doubles per game and topping the conference in slugging percentage.
- Maddie Luedtke (Gibbstown, NJ/Gloucester County Institute of Technology) leads the MAAC with seven home runs and 29 runs scored on the season. She is also in the top 10 in the conference in slugging percentage, OPS, RBIs, and sacrifice flies.
- Cruz is leading the MAAC so far this year with 28 RBIs and among the leaders in the conference with nine doubles. Fallyn Stoeckel (Nutley, NJ/Nutley) hit her seventh double of the season against Quinnipiac, giving her 100 hits for her career. Emma Morgan (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cumberland Valley) and Reda-Fehsal have six doubles this season.
- Reda-Fehsal and Cruz both have four home runs to sit second on the squad this year.
- Reda-Fehsal led the team in RBI's (41, 8^th-MAAC) and sacrifice flies (2) and was second in slugging (.512), doubles (14, 9^th-MAAC), home runs (7) and total bases (85) in 2025. She hit .289 and started 53 of 58 games played as the team's primary first baseman, finishing with 12 multi-hit games, including five games with three or more. She had a team-high 10 multi-RBI games, including three games with four or more and hit .380 with four home runs, 10 doubles, 31 RBI's, 10 runs scored and a .718 slugging percentage in MAAC play. 
- Cruz hit .294 with five homers and 29 RBIs in 2025, scoring 19 runs and striking out just six times in 163 at bats.
- Other returners for the Broncs include Stoeckel, who hit .301 and scored a team-high 30 runs last season, while also tossing 39.2 innings and producing a 4-4 record with a 3.71 ERA in the circle, Luedtke, who hit .325 and was 6-of-8 on stolen base attempts last season, Kiersten Buchanan (Holly Springs, NC/Holly Springs), who hit .218 last season, scoring 18 runs and was second on the team with six sacrifices, Shelby Dyer (Clarksboro, NJ/Kingsway Regional), who started 46 of the 54 games she saw action in and finished the year with 10 runs and 10 RBIs, Keegan St. Cyr (Hopkinton, NH/Hopkinton), who hit .246 and scored 13 runs last season, Morgan, who saw action in 19 games and made nine starts in 2025, and Noelle Flail (Woolwich Township, NJ/Kingsway Regional), who played in 24 contests and made 14 starts last season.
- The Broncs will lean on new arms in the circle after the graduations of Anna-Marie Groskritz and Kathryn Schmeirer, who pitched over 300 of the Broncs 380.1 innings in 2025. Along with Stoeckel, Rodriguez tossed 37.1 innings in 2025 and the pair will be joined by freshmen duo Madison Moran (Lafayette Hill, PA/Plymouth Whitemarsh) and Lily Ornelas (Hernando, FL/Trinity Catholic) in pitching duties this season.
- New names in the field include Melissa Purcella (Albuquerque, NM/Albuquerque Academy), Sydney Savatt (Pittsburgh, PA/Avonworth), and Abby Van Volkenburgh (Prosper, TX/John Paul II).
- Penn currently sits in a four-way tie for second in the crowded Ivy League standings and 3-3 in conference play thus far. The Quakers have done well against MAAC competition this season, defeating Mount St. Mary's 9-1 at the Longwood Tournament and sweeping a three-game series against Saint Peter's. Delaney Smith and Gigi Ganje are powering the Penn offense. Smith is hitting a team-best .487 with six home runs, and Ganje is hitting .424 with a team-best 11 round trippers.