KINGSTON, R.I. – Rhode Island will play a doubleheader at in-state rival Brown Wednesday, with the first game beginning at 3 p.m.
This will be the third in-state rival for the Rams this season. Rhody split a doubleheader with Providence College on March 25 and it defeated Bryant in a single game on April 2. The Rams initially had a single game with Providence scheduled for April 7, but that was called off due to poor weather.
Both games against Brown are scheduled to stream on ESPN+.
WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE
at Brown, 3:00 p.m. -Â Live Stats | ESPN+
at Brown, 5:00 p.m. -Â Live Stats | ESPN+
RHODE ISLAND VS. BROWN – SERIES NOTES
- Rhode Island is 38-27 in 65 previous meetings with Brown.
- This is the second straight year the Rams will visit the Bears.
- Brown won the doubleheader a year ago by scores of 1-0 and 8-0.
- Before last last, the Rams had won five of the previous six meetings in the series.
- Brown enters Wednesday having won five of its last six contests.
- Bears head coach Mary Holt-Kelsh was an assistant coach at URI from 2016-21.
ORNDORFF SWINGING A HOT BAT
- Sophomore outfielder Sydney Orndorff has been on fire at the plate over her last eight games, raising her batting average by 119 points over that stretch.
- Orndorff is 9-for-19 (.474) with four runs batted in and three runs scored over her last eight games.
- In her first season with the Rams, she has raised her batting average to .311.
- The St. Peter's transfer batted .313 with 56 hits in 50 games as a freshman.
- Rhode Island is 38-27 in 65 previous meetings with Brown.
- In Atlantic 10 play, Orndorff is batting .389 (7-for-18).Â
MILLER GETTING THE JOB DONE
- Junior Casey Miller has scored a team-high 17 runs on the season, already a career best.
- She also has 21 hits this Spring, just three shy of her career high.
- Defensively she has recorded a career-high 54 putouts to go with 38 assists.
- Miller is second on the team with 29 starts, trialing only junior Kylie Bulinski, who has started all 30 games.