NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference schedule opens on Saturday for Christopher Newport University, as the sixth-ranked Captains host the Knights of Southern Virginia University. The softball doubleheader at Captains Park is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m.

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Keith Parr's team has a record of 18-8 so far this season, and the Captains are coming off a doubleheader split on Tuesday at William Peace University in Raleigh, N.C. The Coast-to-Coast schedule this spring will feature six total games, consisting of three doubleheaders against Southern Virginia, Salisbury, and Mary Washington. Finlandia and Mount Mary are also members of the C2C softball conference.

Southern Virginia comes into the twin bill also following a split on Wednesday at Eastern Mennonite. SVU is 4-12 heading into Saturday's action, and the Knights are also opening C2C play.

You can watch the action live Saturday here on CNUsports.com by clicking HERE. Live stats for the twin bill will also be available HERE.

The Captains have been led at the plate this season by juniors Bailey Roberts and Kaitlyn Hasty. Roberts, the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week this week, tops the team in batting with a .426 average. Hasty, who is hitting .370, leads the squad in home runs with seven and runs batted in with 21. The All-American has now hit 30 career home runs, fourth all-time in program history, and her next RBI will be the 100th of her career.

In the pitching circle, Christopher Newport senior Emily Weatherholtz has tallied a 9-2 record this season and was selected the C2C's Pitcher of the Week this week. Sophomore Gracie Vallejos is 8-4 and has struck out 95 batters in 86 innings of work.

The Captains are ranked sixth in the country this week by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA). The latest poll was released on Wednesday:

NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll – April 7, 2021

Rank	Team	2021 Record	Points	Previous
1	Linfield (8)	22-2	200	1
2	Virginia Wesleyan	21-3-1	192	2
3	Texas Lutheran	20-4	184	3
4	East Texas Baptist	16-3	176	5
5	Salisbury	14-4	168	6
6	Christopher Newport	18-8	160	4
7	Eastern Connecticut State	14-0	152	12
8	Kean	12-0	144	8
9	Birmingham-Southern	23-3	136	9
T10	Belhaven	20-6	128	10
	DePauw	17-2	128	7
12	St. John Fisher	7-1	110	11
13	Berry	16-5	100	14
14	Wartburg	17-4	97	16
15	Moravian	8-0	89	15
16	Milwaukee School of Engineering	16-1	82	17
17	Emory & Henry	13-3	62	19
18	Transylvania	13-7	57	13
19	Saint Benedict	10-2	50	24
20	Randolph-Macon	8-3-1	39	T22
T21	Cortland	6-2	36	T22
	Mount Union	17-3	36	20
23	Dubuque	12-4	33	18
24	Alvernia	12-2	30	21
25	Westminster (Pa.)	18-0	7	NR

Others receiving votes: Misericordia 4, St. Scholastica 4, McMurry 1, Millikin 1, Stevenson 1, Trine 1.


Dropped out: Aurora, Geneseo and Luther.