May 08, 2024

GAMEDAY CENTRAL: Softball at ACC Championship (Quarterfinals)

No. 5 Clemson (33-16, 15-9 ACC) vs. No. 4 Virginia (32-17, 15-9 ACC)

GAME SETUPS

Clemson: Roster | Schedule | Game Notes (PDF)

PREVIEW

Clemson enters the 2024 ACC Championship as the five seed – marks the fourth-consecutive season Clemson has entered the tournament as a top-five seed (2023 – 3, 2022 – 5, 2021 – 1)
The Tigers hold a .300 batting average. Clemson also has a .481 slugging percentage and .390 on-base percentage.
Clemson’s pitching staff maintains a 2.27 ERA through 333.0 innings of work and has 264 strikeouts.
The Tigers are 11-2 all-time against the Cavaliers. Clemson last faced Virginia in March in Charlottesville, Va., where the Cavaliers took two of the three games. Clemson last defeated Virginia on March 23, 2024, 5-1.

QUICK HITS

Clemson has outscored opponents 296-146 this season
Clemson had 404 hits through 49 games, including posting 60 doubles, 52 home runs and 14 triples
The Tigers have 268 RBIs this season with Valerie Cagle (39), McKenzie Clark (37), Alia Logoleo (36) and Maddie Moore (34) leading the charge. A total of 15 batters have tallied at least one RBI this season, including 10 in double digits
11 Tigers combined for 102 multi-hit games led by Alex Brown (19), McKenzie Clark (17), Maddie Moore (15), Valerie Cagle (14) and Alia Logoleo (11).

ACC CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY

The 2024 season marks the second-time in program history Clemson has entered the ACC Championships as a five seed – the first being 2022
In 2022, Clemson entered as the five seed and went on to defeat Notre Dame (four seed – quarterfinals) and Virginia Tech (one seed – semifinals) before falling to Florida State, 8-6, in the championship game
The 2022 season marked the second-consecutive year Clemson had made the championship game after facing Duke in the 2021 championship
Clemson entered the tournament in 2023 as the three seed and defeated North Carolina, 2-1, before falling to Duke in the semifinals

ALL ALIA

Alia Logoleo maintains a .301 career average with 191 hits, including 27 doubles, 40 home runs and three triples
She has scored 121 runs and tallied 170 RBIs while holding a .543 slugging percentage and .378 on-base percentage. She has also stolen 32 bases
Coming from a family of athletes, Alia is the youngest of four – her two older sisters played collegiate sports: Avei (first beach volleyball only recruit at UAB) and Kayla (softball – Chattanooga State CC)
Her mom, Cindy Weathers-Logoleo, was a member of the first softball team at Austin-Peay State – the two share the similarities of being members of ‘first’ softball programs
Of Samoan heritage, she is one of only a few female Polynesian representatives playing full-time college softball
In December 2023, Alia traveled to Amerika Samoa to learn more about her culture, visit family and teach softball running camps/clinics with locals
She sat down with Clemson Athletics earlier this season to discuss her journey as a student-athlete at Clemson that spans from the inaugural season (2020) to her senior year (2024). Read the full story now here