WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg softball team (12-12 overall, 2-6 IIAC) travels to face No. 23 Central (19-7, 6-2) Saturday at 1 p.m. and will host Dubuque (5-21, 1-3) Sunday at 1 p.m. The Dutch are third, the Knights are tied for seventh and the Spartans are ninth on the conference standings.

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The Series
Central holds the all-time series lead at 54-26, and took both games in last year's series. The Knights lead 58-17 over the Spartans and have won the last four-straight.

Wartburg
Senior Mara Forsyth (Charles City) leads the team with her .420 average, five doubles, five home runs, and 18 RBIs. Junior Kailee O'Brien (Altoona), senior Erica Countryman (Plainfield, Ill.), and junior Liz Roby-Miklus (Ankeny) are all above .300 at .354, .342, and .316, respectively.

Roby-Miklus has a team-high 16 stolen bases.

Freshman Maddie Rog (Norridge, Ill.) leads the starting pitchers with a 3-4 record, 22 Ks in 61.0 innings pitched.

Career Record Watch
Forsyth has now tied the career record with 29 home runs and third in RBIs (120).

Roby-Miklus is second in stolen bases (58).

Central
The Dutch have three hitters above .400 in Shaye Witte at .449, Sara Tallman at .432, and Emily Walton at .413.

Mariah Fritz leads the pitchers with her 2.27 ERA, is 9-4 with 38 strikeouts in 89.1 innings pitched.

Dubuque
Taylor Allard leads the team with her .464 average, two home runs and 18 RBIs.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of one statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 33^rd in stolen bases per game (2).
 
Individually, three Knights rank in the top 100 of six statistical categories: Forsyth ranks 82^nd in home runs (5) and 92^nd in home runs per game (.21),  Roby-Miklus ranks 58^th in stolen bases (.63) and 73^rd in triples (3), and freshman Lauren Reicks (Cresco) ranks 22^nd in saves (2) and 93^rd in earned run average (1.93).