Kerwood No-Hits Hampton, Softball Sets Most Consecutive Run Rule Victories Program Record, Kerwood Sets Single-Season Strikeout Record During Doubleheader Sweep

Friday, April 18

Hampton, VA

12 PM

University of Delaware

29-13, 15-4

Hampton

13-26, 4-15

Delaware University

Hampton University

Photo by: Michael Riccio

Kerwood No-Hits Hampton, Softball Sets Most Consecutive Run Rule Victories Program Record, Kerwood Sets Single-Season Strikeout Record During Doubleheader Sweep

4/18/2025 6:52:00 PM | Softball

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HAMPTON, Va. - University of Delaware softball's Billie Kerwood pitched the 19th no-hitter in program history as the Blue Hens swept a doubleheader from Hampton, 9-0 in five innings and 7-3, on Friday, April 18. Delaware set its program record for consecutive run-rule victories with its fifth in a row - a record that was previously set in March of this year. Kerwood also set the UD single-season strikeout record with her 188th.

HEN HIGHLIGHTS GAME ONE

Kerwood struck out eight of the 16 batters she faced, with the only baserunner for Hampton coming on a dropped third strike.
Delaware pounded out 14 hits in the win. Katie Scheivert, Chloe Blantz, Mary Beth Cahalan, Sorella Gallucci, and Veronica Diomede each had multi-hit games. Delaware's top four in the lineup went 8-for-14 with three extra base hits, seven RBIs, and five runs scored.
Cahalan hit a two-run home run as a part of a three-hit, three RBI, two stolen base game.
Scheivert also tacked on a double, a run scored, and an RBI, while Blantz scored two runs and recorded an RBI and stolen base. Gallucci added two runs scored and Diomede scored a run and stole a base.
Shaffer went 1-for-3 with a run scored and a two-run double.
Hess also went 1-for-3.
Grace Hausamann had a pinch-hit single.

HEN HIGHLIGHTS GAME TWO

Scheivert and Gallucci both had multi-hit games in the second game as well, as did Ellie Talley.
Galluci hit her first career home run and doubled. She drove in two runs and scored two runs.
Scheivert had a double, triple, run scored, and a walk.
Talley went 2-for-4 with an RBI single.
Hess earned the win by pitching 6.2 innings and allowed one earned run. She also went 1-for-2 at the plate with two RBIs and a double.
Blantz and Shaffer both had hits and RBIs, with Shaffer's hit going for a double.

HOW IT HAPPENED GAME ONE

Cahalan brought in Blantz for the first run of the game with an RBI single in the first. Kerwood pitched a perfect bottom half of the first with a strikeout.
After Delaware loaded the bases with one out in the second after an error and two singles, Scheivert brought in a run with an RBI single, Blantz made it 3-0 with a groundout, and Shaffer hit a two-run double. Cahalan followed that up with a two-run home run to give Delaware a 7-0 lead.
Kerwood struck out the side in the second.
Delaware scored its eighth run on an error in the third. Hampton had its first and only baserunner during the inning on a dropped third strike.
Another error by Hampton brought the score to 9-0.
Kerwood was perfect in the fourth and fifth inning, and finished off the no-hitter by striking out the side in the final inning.

HOW IT HAPPENED GAME TWO

Scheivert led off the game with a triple and scored on a groundout to give Delaware an early lead. Hess pitched a scoreless bottom half of the first.
Gallucci hit a two-run home run in the second to give UD a 3-0 lead. Hess allowed just a walk in another scoreless inning.
Blantz singled and Shaffer doubled her in to make the score 4-0. Hess then added another run with a sacrifice fly.
Hampton scored its first run of the day in the third, but Hess pitched a hitless fourth inning.
Delaware added two runs in the fifth on an RBI double by Hess and an RBI single by Talley. Hess stranded two runners in the fifth and pitched a 1-2-3 sixth.
Hampton scored a pair of runs in the seventh but Delaware hung on for the doubleheader sweep.

GAME NOTES

Kerwood threw the 19th no-hitter in program history. It's the third straight year a Delaware pitcher has thrown a no-hitter. Hess pitched one last season against Hofstra in April, and Emily Winburn pitched a no-hitter on May 5, 2023 - also against Hampton.
Kerwood set a new program record for strikeouts in a season with 188, passing Carolynn Sloat's record set in 2004.
Kerwood has thrown 15.1 consecutive scoreless innings, striking out 26 and allowing just two hits and one walk over that stretch.
Delaware set a new program record for consecutive run rule victories with five, having defeated North Carolina A&T in five innings in all three games last weekend and then beating Villanova in six innings on Tuesday before its five-inning win in game one. The previous record for consecutive run rule victories for Delaware was four set in March of this season against Drexel and Coppin State.
Since Hampton joined the CAA, Delaware is 5-0 against the Pirates and have outscored them 34-3.
Shaffer upped her season totals in runs scored to 39 (tied with Jessica Grisler, 2013, for fifth most in a season), in RBI to 41 (sixth most in a season), and total bases to 104 (tied with Anna Steinmetz, 2016, for third most in a season).
Hess has gone 4-0 over her last five games, and has given up just one earned run over her last 30 innings pitched.
Scheivert had multiple hits in three-straight games, and went 4-for-7 with three extra base hits in the doubleheader.
Gallucci also has multiple hits in three-straight games, and is 6-for-8 with six runs scored and four RBIs over that stretch.
Diomede's career-best eight-game hit streak was snapped in game two.
Delaware has won 30 games in a season in back-to-back years for the third time in program history - also done from 2015-2016 and 1999-2000.
Delaware has had at least 10 hits in a game in four-straight games for the second time this season (March 6-9).
Delaware has outscored its opponents 70-3 in its last eight games. UD has also allowed just 23 hits over those eight games.

UP NEXT

Delaware wraps up its series with Hampton tomorrow at 2:00 p.m.

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