Newsstand: Notre Dame softball makes significant addition

On3 image — Notre Dame softball coach Deanna Gumpf. (Photo by Andy Mead/YCJ/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images).

Notre Dame softball added Princeton transfer pitcher Alexis Laudenslager, the team announced Monday. Laudenslager has two years of eligibility remaining.

Laudenslager is coming off back-to-back seasons as the Ivy League Pitcher of the Year. She has 30 career wins, a 2.29 ERA and 352 strikeouts in 287.2 innings pitched.

“We’re very excited to have Alexis on campus this fall,” Irish coach Deanna Gumpf said in a press release. “She has proven to be a dominant college pitcher and will add an extra element to our current pitching staff. Her experience, paired with our current staff gives us the depth to put us in a great position to compete at the highest level in the nation and in the ACC.”

This past season at Princeton, Laudenslager became the first pitcher in program history to throw three no-hitters in a single season. She also set a Princeton record with five no-hitters in her career.

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Notre Dame tweets of the day

ACC Network shouted out Irish women’s basketball coach Niele Ivey.

The best is yet to come for @IrishCoachIvey and @ndwbb 👏@FightingIrish | #ACCNTakeover pic.twitter.com/FbS2mcFuE8
— ACC Network (@accnetwork) July 6, 2023

Irish men’s basketball commit Cole Certa scored 37 points for the Illinois Wolves of the 17U Boys Under Armour Association.

And two more 25-foot threes for Cole Certa in a game he couldn’t be any better in as he finishes with 37 points — and eight three-pointers.

If Certa had stayed in Illinois, the 6-5 guard would easily be the state’s No. 2 prospect and legit Mr. Basketball contender.

Oh, well.
— Joe Henricksen (@joehoopsreport) July 6, 2023

Former Irish women’s basketball star Kayla McBride scored 21 points in Minnesota’s win over Indiana.

getting buckets is what KMac does. pic.twitter.com/adEtWGb5iU
— Minnesota Lynx (@minnesotalynx) July 6, 2023

Quote of the day

“It will never look like those other places. We will build a functional building. It will be attractive. It will have new things. Some of the things that get a lot of notoriety in the other programs, we aren’t going to have.”

— Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick on his vision for a renovated and/or expanded Guglielmino Athletics Complex