Softball Set to Host Final Home Tournament with The Marucci Classic

RALEIGH, N.C. - The NC State softball team will host its final home tournament of the season with the Marucci Classic March 5-7. The Pack will host Michigan State, Stetson, and Mercer for the eight-game tournament at Dail Softball Stadium.

The Wolfpack opens play on Thursday against the Spartans at 6pm. Prior to the game, former program standouts, Renada Davis and Bethaney Wells, will do a ceremonial first pitch.

NC State will then face Stetson (3:30pm) and Mercer (6pm) on Friday, before wrapping up play on Saturday at 3pm with a rematch with the Bears. All games with NC State will be streamed on ACCNX.

The Series History With Each Opponent

Michigan State: Thursday's meeting marks the sixth between the two programs and first since 2024. The Pack leads the all-time series, 5-1, having won the last meeting in 2024.
Stetson: Friday's meeting marks the first ever between the two programs.
Mercer: The two programs have not met since 2007, when the Bears and Wolfpack met in Clearwater, Fla. NC State won the meeting, 1-0.

A Win (on Thursday) Would ...

be the 15th of the 2026 campaign
be the 70th under Leftwich
be the 666th in program history

No Place Like Home

The Pack will begin a 21-game homestand on Feb. 17 against Queens, marking the longest in program history.
The last time the Wolfpack played close to that many consecutive games at home was in 2020, when the Pack started a 20-game homestand in the second week of the season that concluded March 10 after the remainder of the season was canceled due to COVID-19.

It's a Reunion at the Dail

Former Wolfpack teammates Bethaney Wells (outfielder, '09-'13) and Renada Davis (shortstop, '12-'15) will share the field at Dail Softball Stadium for the first time on Thursday since 2013. Davis, a team sales reps for Marucci Sports, will throw out the first pitch on Thursday and Wells, an assistant coach at Michigan State, will catch it.
Davis, one of the most decorated athletes in program history, was a freshman during Wells redshirt-junior season in 2012. During their time in Raleigh, they were apart of a squad that won an ACC Championship and made a Regional Final for the first time in program history - both happened in 2013.
Wells was a standout outfielder for the Pack and ranks in the top-10 for several single game records in addition to career homers, RBIs and slugging percentage.
Davis later held lead the Pack to its first ever Super Regional in 2015. That same year, the senior broke the ACC home run record when she hit her 62nd in April 2015 against Virgina Tech. Today, she still holds the program's career home run, doubles, and runs scored records, in addition to single season slugging, on base hits, homers, total bases, and walks records.

Anything but SHORT Lived

Freshman Carly Short has successfully reached base in all 21 games this season, a mark that ties for fourth most in a season in program history. It is also a mark that ranks as one of the best in the nation - Arkansas' Brinli Bain holds a streak of 20 games, the second longest in the nation (based on accessible data).
The last time a member of the Pack held a streak that long was in 2013 when Wolfpack Legend, Renada Davis, had just as many during her sophomore campaign. The last freshman to post numbers like this? Alyssa Compton in 2015 had a streak of 16 games.

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