WAVERLY, Iowa – The Wartburg softball team (14-10 overall, 2-2 IIAC) hosts Loras (17-5, 3-1) Saturday at 1 p.m.

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The Series
The Knights hold the all-time series lead at 42-22.

Wartburg
Junior Mara Forsyth (Charles City) leads the team in batting average (.411), doubles (7), RBIs (34), and home runs (7).

Sophomore Kailee O'Brien (Altoona) is second on the team in batting average at .388 with 16 RBIs.

Senior Taylor Smola (Stevens Point, Wis.) is second on the team with 23 RBIs and four home runs. She is hitting third-best with an average of .385 to go with seven doubles this season.

Senior Kimberly Wedeking (Clarksville) leads the pitchers with a 3.02 ERA, 10 wins and 10 complete games. She is tied for second on the team in home runs with four and fifth on the team in batting average at .341 with RBIs at 14. 

Career Record Watch
Wedeking now holds the No. 5 spot on the program's career-leader list in complete games (41) and is seventh in strikeouts (196). Forsyth is now sixth in career home runs (17).

Loras
Dani Stromert leads her team with a .451 batting average. Emily Reilly has the team-best ERA at 1.99 and 48 strikeouts. She has seven wins along with five complete games.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of seven NCAA stat categories.

The Knights rank 18^th in stolen bases per game (2.73), 38^th in home runs per game (0.64), 43^rd in scoring (6.68), 44^th in slugging percentage (0.478), 53^rd in on base percentage (0.401), 62^nd in batting average (0.329), and 62^nd in doubles per game (1.77).

Individually, four Knights rank in the top 100 of nine different categories. Junior Mara Forsyth (Charles City, Iowa) ranks 12^th in runs batted in per game (1.50), 17^th in home runs (6), 21^st in RBIs (33), 31^st in home runs per game (0.27), 40^th in slugging percentage (0.824), 52^nd in total bases (56), and 86^th in runs per game (1.14).

Senior Kimberly Wedeking (Clarksville, Iowa) ranks 18^th in victories (10), and 59^th in home runs (4). Senior Taylor Smola (Stevens Point, Wis) ranks 59^th in home runs (4). Sophomore Liz Roby Miklus (Ankeny, Iowa) ranks 70^th in stolen bases (0.68).