Wolverines Continue Big Ten Play at Penn State

» No. 17 Michigan will head to State College, Pennsylvania, for a three-game series against Penn State this weekend (Fri-Sun., April 6-8) at Beard Field.
» Michigan has won 22 of its last 23 games and is coming off a three-game weekend sweep against Purdue, during which it outscored the Boilermakers, 21-1.
» Faith Canfield carries a career-best 16-game hit streak; she has batted .491 over the stretch.

THIS WEEK
Friday, April 6 -- at Penn State (State College, Pa.), 6 p.m.
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Saturday, April 7 -- at Penn State (State College, Pa.), 3 p.m.
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Sunday, April 8 -- at Penn State (State College, Pa.), 1 p.m.
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The No. 17-ranked University of Michigan softball team (28-7, 4-1 Big Ten) will travel to State College, Pennsylvania, for a three-game weekend series against Penn State (6-23, 2-4 Big Ten) at Beard Field. The series kicks off at 6 p.m. on Friday (April 6), continues with a 3 p.m. slate on Saturday (April 7) and concludes at 1 p.m. on Sunday (April 8).

• Senior right-handed pitcher/first baseman Tera Blanco was named Big Ten Player of the Week after hitting .600 over the Wolverines' last four games, and more notably, went 6-for-8 in the Purdue weekend series with three home runs and 10 RBI. She knocked out two homers as part of a 3-for-3 day in the second series slate -- the second multi-homer game of her career -- and registered a grand slam in the finale, posting four RBI in both games. Blanco has recorded at least one hit in 19 of the last 20 games.

• Freshman left-hander Meghan Beaubien was named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week for the fourth time this season after earning all four wins over the Wolverines' four-game week, posting a 0.00 earned-run average with 25 strikeouts and just two hits allowed over 17.1 innings pitched. She went 12 innings without allowing a hit, contributing to a five-inning no-hitter against Detroit Mercy before tossing her second collegiate complete-game no-hitter with an eight-strikeout effort against Purdue -- just a hit by pitch shy of a perfect game. She allowed just one hit in each of her next two appearances, winning in relief in the Purdue series finale, striking out six over 3.1 innings.

• Beaubien's no-hitter against the Boilermakers was her second this season and the Wolverines' fourth -- already tying the program single-season record just 35 games into the season. U-M previously registered four no-hitters during the 1996, 2005 and 2017 seasons.

• Beaubien leads the nation with 20 wins -- two more than Arizona's Taylor McQuillin and Central Florida's Alea White in second place -- and ranks top-10 nationally in several other categories, including ERA (0.78, 10th), hits allowed per game (3.02, 5th) and shutouts (seven, seventh).

• Junior second baseman Faith Canfield boasts a career-best 16-game hit streak, stretching back to March 9. Canfield, who completed last season on a 10-game hit streak, has batted .491 over her current stretch with nine multi-hit games, nine extra-base hits and 13 RBI.

• Freshman Lou Allan has been a big addition to the Wolverines' lineup of late. After missing the first 16 games of the season due to injury, Allan has started each of the last 10 at designated player. She ranks fifth among U-M's current starters with a .324 batting average and 10 RBI.

• The Wolverines committed their first error in 18 games in the series finale against Purdue. Michigan ranks second nationally with a team .989 fielding percentage -- just .0006 behind Oklahoma. Four U-M starters own 1.000 fielding percentages, including Canfield and Blanco, while its starting infield has fielding percentages of .971 or better. Last season, Michigan also ranked second in the nation with a .981 fielding percentage, while six Michigan starters boasted fielding percentages of .970 or better.