Nittany Lions Prepared for Final B1G Road Series at Maryland
Penn State to challenge Terrapins over three-game set in penultimate regular season weekend
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Penn State softball hits the road for its final Big Ten Conference series away from home and its penultimate league weekend in the 2025 campaign, as the Blue & White travel to face off against the Maryland Terrapins in a three-game set running Friday through Sunday, April 25-27 from Maryland Softball Stadium.
The Nittany Lions penultimate regular season series in their 60th anniversary season will begin on Friday at 6 p.m. (ET), followed by a 2 p.m. (ET) start on Saturday afternoon. Sunday’s weekend finale will be a Noon (ET) matinee, with all three games set to stream live to a worldwide audience of authenticated subscribers via B1G+ and the B1G+ app on connected devices.
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All three games of Penn State’s penultimate Big Ten Conference weekend series at Maryland will stream live to a worldwide audience of authenticated subscribers via B1G+ and the B1G+ app on connected devices. Links to view all three contests live are available on the Penn State softball schedule webpage, or at BigTenPlus.com, with on-demand replays and other Penn State-specific content available to fans of the Nittany Lions. Live stat links provided by StatBroadcast and the University of Maryland are available for all games on the Penn State softball schedule webpage or via the team’s StatBroadcast central hub at the link here.
QUICK HITS
PSU returns to the diamond following a hard-fought weekend series on the road at Iowa last weekend, with the final two games of the series serving as Penn State’s national television debut in 2025 on the Big Ten Network. Fifth-year first baseman Meagan Ricks led the way for PSU over the three-game set, with the Winter Haven, Florida, native batting .500 overall with a pair of doubles and team-best two runs scored on the road. Penn State is nearing multiple single-season program team and individual records. The Nittany Lions need just four runs scored and 12 runs batted in to surpass the program’s single season record in each statistical category. Sophomore designated player Brooke Klosowicz is nearing the PSU individual single-season RBI record, needing just three to tie and four to surpass the record of 49 set in 2002 and 1988 by Nittany Lion legends Jennifer Tripken and Nan Sichler.
KLOSOWICZ COOKIN’
Sophomore Brooke Klosowicz is off to a breakout start in her second collegiate season, pacing the Nittany Lion roster in a variety of offensive statistics including batting average (.438), OPS (1.365), hits (56), doubles (19), total bases (112), OBP (.490) and slugging (.875). Penn State’s star sophomore ranks prominently in both the Big Ten Conference and Division I in a variety of traditional and advanced statistics, notably hitting the third-most doubles in college softball with 19 through this point in the season. Klosowicz stands tied atop the Big Ten leaderboard with her 19 doubles and is fifth nationally in doubles per game with 0.43, simultaneously boasting the 23rd-best slugging percentage in all of college softball with a .875 mark in the statistic. Klosowicz is eighth in the Big Ten in terms of batting average, hitting at a .438 clip while registering 56 hits, the 12th-most in the B1G. Additionally, she stands in 12th place among all collegiate hitters in terms of weighted on-base average (.634) and weighted runs created-plus (252), further underscoring her essential role as the driving force behind PSU’s offensive success in the 2025 season.
Penn State at Maryland
20-24 | 6-10 B1G
17-25 | 3-13 B1G
Introducing Maryland
INTRODUCING THE TERRAPINS
Led by second-year head coach Lauren Karn, the Maryland Terrapins enter their second-to-last Big Ten Conference weekend set maintaining a 17-25 overall record coupled with a 3-13 ledger against league foes. The Terrapins are fresh off a dominant 11-1, five-inning midweek road win over the border-foe Delaware Blue Hens on Wednesday. Maryland has gone 2-8 over their last 10 games and will carry a 10-game losing streak in Big Ten contests into this weekend’s trio of opportunities against the Blue & White. Maryland’s last B1G victory came over the Purdue Boilermakers in an 8-1 outing on March 22 during the second weekend of B1G Softball x Devon Park in Oklahoma City.
The Terrapin lineup boasts a trio of student-athletes boasting batting averages of .300-or-better, with Sydney Lewis, Bailey Murphy and Mazie MacFarlane leading the way. Lewis is the Maryland leader in average (.336), home runs (nine) and RBI (33). In the run game, Caitlyn Cornwell leads the Terrapin roster with seven stolen bases in 10 total attempts, while MacFarlane adds four SB’s of her own. In the circle, the Terrapins have largely relied on a four-pitcher platoon, with four student-athletes boasting at least 45.2 innings but no more than 75.2 innings of work. Aubrey Wurst leads the staff in ERA with a 3.68 tally, while Bri Godfrey leads the team in innings pitched (75.2) and WHIP with a 1.57 mark.
STORY OF THE SERIES: MARYLAND
In an all-time series dating to the 1999 campaign, Penn State and Maryland get set for the 42nd, 43rd and 44th meetings this weekend in College Park. Penn State maintains a strong 24-17 differential in the series, highlighted by four wins in the last seven opportunities. The last two series have featured a mixed bag of results for both programs despite PSU taking each by 2-1 differentials. The Nittany Lions and Terrapins have competed in every season since Maryland joined the Big Ten Conference in 2015, with the squads set to battle one another in College Park for the 17th, 18th, and 19th times over that span.
Penn State last battled the Terrapins at Maryland Softball Stadium during the 2023 campaign, with the Nittany Lions battling through a trio of one-run games to take the series in a 2-1 battle. A multi-home run game from then-senior Lexie Black powered PSU to a 3-2, eight-inning win in the opener, followed by each team picking up a 2-1 win to close things out. Last season, PSU and Maryland battled on four occasions, splitting the season series 2-2. The teams battled in three extra-inning contests, highlighted by a 12-inning, 1-0 Nittany Lion win on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024, to take the regular season set, 2-1. The squads met yet again in the B1G Tournament in Iowa City, with Maryland toppling PSU, 3-1, in nine frames.
Penn State at Maryland
20-24 | 6-10 B1G
17-25 | 3-13 B1G
Penn State at Maryland
20-24 | 6-10 B1G
17-25 | 3-13 B1G
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