Boston College
Illinois State University
BC Heads to Tampa for USF Tournament To Begin 2023 Season
February 09, 2023 | Softball
Eagles will take on Illinois State, South Florida, Saint Joseph's and Florida
2023 marks the 40th season of BCÂ Softball. All-time record for BC is 899-887-3. The Eagles have three NCAA appearances in program history. In ACC play, BC is 344-458 since joining the conference in the 2005-06 academic year.Â
This will be the fourth season at the helm for Head Coach Amy Kvilhaug, who was hired on July 2, 2019. The Eagles went 20-27 last season and 6-18 in ACC games. Prior to BC, Kvilhaug was the head coach at Radford and St. John's, where she won a combined 408 games. Graduate pitcher Susannah Anderson headlines the BC rotation in 2023. Last season, she led the staff with a 2.83 ERA in 141.0 innings of work. She finished the season 9-13 and totaled 96 strikeouts and was named to All-ACC third team.
History Against This Weekend's Opponents
Illinois State - BC is just 1-0 vs Illinois State in program history with the lone win coming in 2014 when the Eagles won 7-6
USF - Fridays game will be just the second meeting in each programs history. USF won the first and only meeting 6-4 in 2017
Saint Joseph's - The Eagles and Hawks will square off twice this weekend, once on Saturday and once on Sunday. Saint Joseph's leads the all time series at 2-0 with the last game coming back in 1995 when they beat BC 3-1.
Florida - Saturday's game will be only the second matchup between the Eagles and Gators. The first game between the two programs came in 2014 when Florida won 7-3.Â
After this weekends tournament in Tampa, Boston College will travel to Fort Meyers for the FGCU Tournament next weekend.Â
