Bucknell softball hosts Army for Senior Day, final home series shifted by weather

Mea Consentino, Nicole Lioumis, Marissa Rapino, Angelina Seropian and Haley Speicher will get their home sendoff when Bucknell softball closes the Lewisburg schedule against Army at Becker Field.

The Patriot League series was pushed from Saturday-Sunday to Sunday-Monday because of an inclement weather forecast, moving the final home games to April 26 and 27 at Bucknell University’s West Fields. Only Monday’s game is set to stream on ESPN+, which makes Sunday’s Senior Day celebration the best local chance to see the five players recognized on their home field.

Bucknell enters the series at 8-30-1 overall and 5-7 in league play after taking two of three from Lehigh, a result that gave the Bison a late lift as the conference season heads into its closing stretch. Army arrives at 27-22 and 7-5 in Patriot League action and comes in with the weight of its own standing, having been described in Bucknell’s January schedule release as the 2025 Patriot League regular-season champion. The matchup gives Bucknell one more shot to build on the Lehigh weekend while facing one of the league’s benchmark programs.

Becker Field is built for that kind of intimate spring setting. The softball venue sits at the West Fields in Lewisburg, holds 800 fans and has permanent grandstands and a press box that debuted in 2018. That scale has long made Senior Day feel more like a neighborhood gathering than a standard campus event, with families, classmates and longtime supporters able to sit close to the action and watch a core group of seniors close out their home careers in person.

The weather change also underscores how quickly April can reshape college schedules in Pennsylvania, where conference races, travel and final exams all collide in the season’s final weeks. Army’s own softball site also noted the shift to Sunday and Monday, showing the delay affected both sides of the series. For Bucknell, the final home stand is now a two-day chance to defend Becker Field, celebrate five seniors and give Lewisburg one more look at a group that carried the Bison through a difficult season with meaning still attached to the last weekend at home.