Mercy is 9-1 against Notre Dame since April of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success  on Tuesday. The Mercy Bears will be playing at home against the Notre Dame Regents at 4:00  p.m. Mercy is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8.8  runs per game  this season.
 Mercy will head into Wednesday's  contest ready to turn things around: they couldn't quite beat Menlo-Atherton on Wednesday, but the two-run margin was a huge improvement compared to the seven-run  defeat they were dealt  last Thursday. Mercy fell just short of Menlo-Atherton by a score of  8-6. Mercy has now  taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
  G Ortega and  R Lask stepped up to the plate in a big way.  Ortega  scored two  runs and  stole a base while going 3-for-4, while  Lask  scored a  run and  stole a base while going 2-for-4. Ortega has been hot recently, having posted  at least one  stolen base the last five times she's  played.  A Anderson was another key contributor,  scoring a  run and  stealing a base while going 1-for-3.
 Meanwhile,  it may have taken  nine innings to finish the job, but the Regents ultimately got the result they hoped for  on Thursday. They won by a  run and slipped past the Tigers  6-5. Six seems to be a good number for the Regents as the  squad scooped up a  win with the same number of  runs in their previous game.
  Avery Provenzano made a splash no matter where she played. She looked comfortable on the mound,   not allowing a single  earned run while striking out 16 over nine innings pitched. Provenzano was also big at the plate,  scoring two  runs and  stealing a base while going 4-for-5.
 In other batting news,  Kamille Beals was  excellent,  going 2-for-5 with three  RBI and a  triple. Another player making a difference was  Jaz Mina, who  scored a  run while  getting on base  in three of her five plate appearances.
 Mercy now  has a losing record at 7-8-1. As for the Regents, they have  been performing  well recently as they've  won four of their last five games,  which provided a nice bump to their 11-6 record  this season.
Notre Dame's pitching crew has a crucial task ahead of them:  Mercy has hit smart this season,  having  averaged  an OBP of .469. It's a different story for Notre Dame, though, as  they've  only  averaged .339. Will they be able to contain Mercy's hitters?
 Mercy came up short against Notre Dame in their previous matchup  on April 11th, falling  7-3. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of   Provenzano, who   didn't allow a single  earned run and  only two  hits while striking out 13 over seven innings pitched. Now that Mercy knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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