WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Friday, March 8
vs. Akron, 5:00 p.m. – Live Stats
 
Saturday, March 9
at Austin Peay, 4:30 p.m. – Live Stats | Watch: ESPN+

Sunday, March 10
vs. Akron, 11:30 a.m. – Live Stats
at Austin Peay, 4:30 p.m. – Live Stats | Watch: ESPN+

Monday, March 11
vs. Bradley, 12 p.m. – Live Stats

Tuesday, March 12
at Tennessee Tech, 12 p.m. – Live Stats
at Tennessee Tech, 2:30 p.m. – Live Stats

WEATHER IMPACTS SCHEDULE AT CATHI MAYNARD INVITATIONAL - WEEKEND NOTES

• The Rhode Island softball team made its way to Tennessee Thursday morning to get ready for seven games over a five-day span.
• Because of weather issues expected in the area, the Rams will play one game each Friday and Saturday, two games on Sunday and a single game on Monday, spending an extra day in Clarksville.
• Rhody will travel to Cookeville, Tenn. after Monday's game against Bradley and then play a doubleheader at Tennessee Tech on Tuesday.
• All times listed above are EST. Both Clarkesville, Tenn. and Cookeville, Tenn. are CST. For fans with the team in Tennessee, the game times will be an hour earlier.

RHODE ISLAND VS. THE CATHI MAYNARD INVITATIONAL FIELD - SERIES NOTES

• Rhode Island is visiting Clarksville, Tenn. for the first time in program history.
• The last time Rhode Island played in the state of Tennessee was in 2018.
• That year, the Rams dropped both ends of a doubleheader at Tennessee Tech (3/13), lost a single game at Middle Tennessee (3/14) and then played at the Belmont/Tennessee State invitational from Match 16-18, where Rhody went 2-3 overall.
• URI is 0-2 all time against Akron, with the last meeting coming in a 5-0 loss at the 2015 Stetson Westin Mary Lake Lead-Off Classic.
• The only other previous meeting came in 1987, a 3-0 win for the Zips.
• Rhode Island has played host Austin Peay once before, at the 2003 Wilson Tournament in Tampa, Fla.
• Austin Peay won the contest, 2-1.
• Rhode Island and Bradley have never played each other.
• Following the Cathi Maynard Invitational, the Rams will play a doubleheader at Tennessee Tech on Tuesday, March 12.

WHO IS CATHI MAYNARD?

• This weekend's invitational is named for longtime Austin Peay fan and supporter Cathi Maynard, who died in June of 2023 after a 35-year battle with Multiple Sclerosis
• Maynard served in the Army as an MP and was affiliated with Special Forces during her Army career
• She and her husband Joe co-operated a family business, ECHO Power Engineering
• In 2022, the Maynards pledged $15 million to name the Joe and Cathi Maynard Athletics Complex on the Austin Peay campus, which offered significant help in Austin Peay's move to the Atlantic Sun Conference