WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg softball team (11-5 overall) hosts No. 20 UW-Oshkosh (3-1) Sunday at 3 p.m. and Aurora (7-3) Wednesday at 3 p.m.
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The Series
The series is tied at 1-1 with UW-Oshkosh, though the programs have not met since 2012. The series is also tied at 1-1 with the Spartans, as the teams split the doubleheader at Aurora last season.
Wartburg
Senior Liz Roby-Miklus (Ankeny) leads the team with her .481 average and 26 stolen bases. She enters the weekend on a 15-game hitting streak. Classmate Kailee O'Brien (Altoona) follows with her .436 average.
Freshman Jenna Levine (DeKalb, Ill.) has a team-best 17 RBIs. Senior Brenna Gray (Waterloo) leads the starting pitchers with five wins and 3.82 ERA. Sophomore Maddie Rog (Norridge, Ill.) has a team-best 21 strikeouts.
Career Record Watch
Roby-Miklus continues to extend her lead as the program leader in stolen bases and has 89 to date. O'Brien ranks third with 52 and is ninth in hits with 148.
Reicks has eight saves which is tied for first.
Single Season Record Watch
Reicks' three saves on the young season is tied for fourth on the single season leader list. Roby-Miklus ranks fifth in stolen bases (26) and O'Brien is tied for 10th (16).
National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of nine statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
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The Knights rank 1
st in stolen bases per game (5.71), 13
th in double plays per game (.71), 57
th in on base percentage (.423), 60
th in batting average (.347), 61
st in scoring (6.86), 70
th in won-lost percentage (.714), 88
th in slugging percentage (.455), 89
th in home runs per game (.43), and 95
th in earned run average (2.6).
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Individually, seven Knights rank in the top 100 of seven statistical categories: Roby-Miklus ranks 1
st in stolen bases (1.57), 70
th in hits (22), and 97
th in runs per game (1.29); O'Brien ranks 16
th in stolen bases (1) and 70
th in hits (22); Gray ranks 41
st in victories (5); Reicks ranks 8
th in saves (2); Rog ranks 79
th in victories (4); freshman Sydney Illg (Grimes) ranks 3
rd in sacrifice flies (3), 37
th in stolen bases (.86), and 82
nd in RBIs (15); and freshman Madison Hiestand (Plainfield, Ill.) ranks 8
th in saves (2).
UW-Oshkosh
The Titans will face Loras Saturday before making the trip to Waverly.
Aurora
The Spartans enter the week on a six-game winning streak. Brianna Lewis leads the team with her .357 average and Aly Teixeria follows at .281. Stephanie Renner leads the pitching staff with a 2.19 ERA and is 4-2 in 32 innings of work.
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