The No. 23 Virginia softball team will close its regular season with a road game against Liberty on April 28. The Cavaliers, holding a record of 36-12, are set to play the Flames, who have a record of 23-26, in a contest scheduled for 5:00 p.m.
This matchup marks the final opportunity for Virginia to build momentum before postseason play begins. Fans can watch the game via ESPN+ through ESPN.com and the ESPN app or follow live statistics provided online. Updates will also be available on the program’s official X account (@UVASoftball).
Virginia enters this contest after sweeping NC State, securing five series wins out of eight Atlantic Coast Conference matchups this season. The Cavaliers are currently ranked No. 28 in the RPI and have played nineteen games against teams ranked in the RPI top fifty.
Freshman pitcher Taylor Smith recently threw her first career no-hitter and solo shutout during the series-clinching win over NC State, contributing to Virginia’s total of eleven shutouts this season. Alex Call hit her first career grand slam during Saturday’s game against NC State—the second grand slam by a Cavalier player in 2026.
Macee Eaton now holds sole possession of second place on Virginia’s single-season RBI list with fifty-nine RBIs this year and has claimed both top spots after totaling sixty-three RBIs last year. Bella Cabral hit two home runs over the weekend, bringing her season total to thirteen and tying her for sixth all-time at Virginia with twenty-nine career home runs.
Jade Hylton added a leadoff home run Sunday, extending her career total to fifty-two home runs; she ranks third all-time at UVA in RBIs (149), while Eaton (138) is sixth and Cabral (116) is eighth.
Pitchers Courtney Layne and Eden Bigham each hold twelve wins this season, combining for twenty-four victories from the circle as Layne improved her record with two relief wins over NC State. As a team, Virginia has hit sixty home runs so far—second most in program history behind last year’s sixty-nine—and leads the ACC in several pitching categories including earned run average (3.06), fewest hits allowed per seven innings (5.85), WHIP (1.30), and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.14). Freshman Jaiden Griffith ranks third in league standings as one of the toughest batters to strike out; junior Macee Eaton ranks sixth.
