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Softball KatieJo Kuhens

Softball Hosts No. 20 UW-Oshkosh, Aurora

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.
 
The Knights rank 1st in stolen bases per game (5.71), 13th in double plays per game (.71), 57th in on base percentage (.423), 60th in batting average (.347), 61st in scoring (6.86), 70th in won-lost percentage (.714), 88th in slugging percentage (.455), 89th in home runs per game (.43), and 95th in earned run average (2.6).
 
Individually, seven Knights rank in the top 100 of seven statistical categories: Roby-Miklus ranks 1st in stolen bases (1.57), 70th in hits (22), and 97th in runs per game (1.29); O'Brien ranks 16th in stolen bases (1) and 70th in hits (22); Gray ranks 41st in victories (5); Reicks ranks 8th in saves (2); Rog ranks 79th in victories (4); freshman Sydney Illg (Grimes) ranks 3rd in sacrifice flies (3), 37th in stolen bases (.86), and 82nd in RBIs (15); and freshman Madison Hiestand (Plainfield, Ill.) ranks 8th 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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