NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Sunday softball at Captains Park will feature a doubleheader, as the second-ranked Captains take on Meredith College. The first pitch of the afternoon is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. The Captains, defending National Champions, have a record of 11-3 on the season, while Meredith, from Raleigh, N.C., enters play Sunday with an 8-8 mark.

Before the start of the twin bill Sunday, Christopher Newport will honor members of the 2022 CNU softball squad that went 47-1 and won the program's first National Championship last season. 

Keith Parr's Captains have won four straight games, all last weekend in the second Cross Bay Bash of the season at Captains Park. CNU defeated Husson twice on Friday and then downed Stockton and Randolph-Macon in single games on Saturday. Junior third baseman Brooke Greaver had a big weekend for CNU, and was selected the Player of the Week in the Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference. Greaver, from Abingdon, Md., posted a .462 average and 1.308 slugging percentage in six games last week, going 6-for-13 at the plate with three home runs and 11 runs batted in.  Greaver led Christopher Newport to five wins and hit 1.000 versus Husson (3-for-3) and Stockton (2-for-2). For the season, Greaver is hitting .378 with six home runs and 20 runs batted in through the first 14 games, and is tied for fifth in the country in home runs with her six blasts already.

Sophomore pitcher Kate Alger is off to a fast start, and has a 6-1 record and an earned run average (ERA) of just 1.32 per seven innings. Alger has struck out 76 batters in 53 innings, and is fifth in the country in total strikeouts.

Meredith College is coming off a ten-day break after making a trip to Florida, where the Avenging Angels split six games in Kissimmee. CNU and Meredith have played 35 games in the all-time series, and the Captains have won 32 of the 35, including four last year when the schools met twice for doubleheaders.

Live stats of the games will be available by clicking HERE on Sunday. There will be no live video coverage of the doubleheader at Captains Park.