Hempstead, N.Y. – Hofstra will seek to continue its recent hot streak with five home games this week, including non-conference games versus LIU Brooklyn on Wednesday and Stony Brook on Thursday. Both games start at 4 p.m. The Pride will then welcome Elon for a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series starting on Saturday by taking on the Phoenix in a 2 p.m. doubleheader.

All games will feature free live audio via Pride Productions and live statistics. Hofstra is 22-9-1 and 9-2 in CAA play following a three-game sweep at Drexel. The Pride will carry a five-game winning streak into Hofstra Softball Stadium, where the team is 7-4 this season.

Junior outfielder Caryn Bailey batted .600 in Hofstra's 5-0 week, smashing four home runs, registering a 1.200 slugging percentage and posting a .667 on-base percentage while driving in 11 runs and scoring eight. Sophomore second baseman Lacey Clark also boosted her season averages following a week in which she hit .526, scored four runs and slugged .789 while totaling 15 bases, which was second to Bailey's 24. Clark has reached base safely in 14 consecutive contests.

Chloe Fitzgerald, the junior outfielder who is the reigning CAA batting champion, is riding a Hofstra season-high 11-game hitting streak that has already compiled 16 multi-hit games.

The Pride has hit eight home runs in the last two games for a total of 34 in 32 games this season compared to 19 long balls for the opposition. Senior pitchers Morgan Lashley and Taylor Pirone have capitalized on the high-octane attack. Lashley has won 12 consecutive decisions and is 12-1 with a 1.94 ERA. Pirone went 3-0 and racked up two saves last week in allowing just one run in 23 1/3 innings. The righty struck out 20 against just one walk and leads Division I in fewest walks allowed per seven innings. She is 10-8 on the season and has multiple shutouts (two) and saves (three).

Hofstra is 18-8 in the all-time series against LIU Brooklyn. The Pride shut out the Blackbirds, 12-0, in five innings in Brooklyn last season. The series dates to the second-ever season in Hofstra history when the teams squared off in 1952. The teams have played every season since 2004. Hofstra has won the last three games and has not lost to the Blackbirds since 2011.

LIU Brooklyn is 14-22 following a NEC doubleheader road split at Sacred Heart. Whitney West is the only .300 hitter in the starting lineup, entering Wednesday batting .343. Her 45 total bases leads the squad and her 16 RBIs is tied for the most on the squad, joining Nicole Archer. Archer's four home runs leads the squad. Shelly Procter has started 21 of the team's 36 games, going 5-12 (6.08 ERA).

Stony Brook (16-12) is building on a 2014 season in which the Seawolves advanced to the America East championship game. Bia Green has won the league's Player of the Week award two consecutive times. The senior leads the America East with 14 home runs and 38 RBIs and her .50 home runs-per-game average ranks fourth in Division I. She is three home runs shy of tying the Stony Brook single season home run record of 17 with 15 games remaining in the regular season.  

Hofstra is 12-3 in the all-time series. The Seawolves posted a 3-2 win at home in the meeting last season, which was the first time the teams played since 2009.

Hofstra will be playing Elon for both the first time in program history. The first three  between the schools will be key conference matchups against a Phoenix squad that is in its first season in the CAA following a move from the Southern Conference.

At 25-13, Elon enters the week on a two-game winning streak and is 7-5 in conference trailing Hofstra by 2 ½ games for second place. Hannah Olson, Kara Shutt and Alaina Hall are three regulars batting .300. Emily Roper's six home runs leads the squad and her 28 RBIs is tied with Shutt for the team lead.

The Pride will end the series against Elon on Sunday at noon.