CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Lesley University softball program has announced its three team captains for the 2025-2026 season. The Lynx will be led by Madison Herbert (Milford, N.H.), Isabella Moscoso (El Cajon, Calif.), and Leah St. John (New Ipswich, N.H.).
"I am very happy to announce Madison Herbert, Bella Moscoso and Leah St. John as our 2025-2026 Team Captains," said Lesley softball head coach Lou Proietti. "Their love of softball is exactly what we are looking for and it has been contagious amongst their teammates. We can't wait to hit the ground running this fall and couldn't be more excited about the level of leadership this team will have moving forward."
On the mound this year, Herbert was Lesley's most durable pitcher after finishing the year with a career-high 97.1 IP in 19 games started. Herbert notched a career-high in wins with three while also tossing 14 complete games. She ended up fanning 62 batters while averaging 4.46 K/7 and posted a 2.29 WHIP. Her strongest performance last year came in a tough 4-0 loss against Alverno (March 14) where she went 6.0 IP allowing seven hits and four runs (three earned) while striking out a career-high nine batters. At the plate this year, she tied her career-highs in hits and RBIs at 16 and 10 respectively.
Moscoso was one of Lesley's better hitters last year as she finished second on the team with a .267 batting average and recording 20 hits. She also notched her first career triple and drove in three RBIs while posting a career-high on-base percentage (.415) and had a slugging percentage of .293. The sophomore infielder had three multi-hit games including a career-high three hits in an 8-4 win versus Elms College (Mar. 11). Moscoso also made her pitching debut this year tossing 17.1 IP and allowing 31 hits and 32 runs (25 earned) while striking out 10. She struck out a career-high five batters in a 7-1 loss at Plymouth State (April 5).
Finally, St. John was the squad's top hitter as she led the Lynx in hits (29), doubles (11), batting average (.315), slugging percentage (.500), and home runs (two). All those marks for St. John marked a new career-high for the sophomore. St. John finished with six multi-hit games on the year highlighted by a career-high three hits in a game where she went 3-3 versus Wisconsin-Superior (March 12). She belted her first career homer in a 6-2 victory over UMPI on April 14.
On the year, Lesley finished with a 6-26 record under Proietti in his first year with the program. Proietti and the Lynx earned their first win against Elms on March 11, 8-4. Later in the month of April, the squad earned its first North Atlantic Conference (NAC) win of the season by topping UMPI, 6-2 on April 14. A few days later, Lesley would record its longest win streak on the year by sweeping VTSU Johnson on April 18, and then taking down Elms again, 3-2 on April 22.