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Softball KatieJo Kuhens

Wartburg Hosts No. 11 Coe

WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg softball team (17-5, 2-0 A-R-C) hosts No. 11 Coe (22-3, 2-0) Tuesday at 3 p.m. The teams are tied for first in the conference standings. The Knights enter on a seven-game winning streak, while the Kohawks have won five-straight.

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The Series
Coe leads the all-time series at 43-37. The Kohawks claimed the doubleheader last season, but the programs split in 2017.

Wartburg
Senior Liz Roby-Miklus (Ankeny) leads the team with her .500 average and 36 stolen bases. She has now reached base in all 22 games this season, and 26 consecutive games, dating back to 2018. Classmate Kailee O'Brien (Altoona) follows with her .480 average.

Freshman Sydney Illg (Grimes) has a team-best 24 RBIs. Senior Brenna Gray (Waterloo) leads the starting pitchers with eight wins and 4.50 ERA. Sophomore Maddie Rog (Norridge, Ill.) has a team-best 31 strikeouts.

Career Record Watch
Roby-Miklus continues to extend her lead as the program leader in stolen bases and has 99 to date. O'Brien ranks third with 53 and is seventh in hits with 160.

Reicks is the all-time leader with 10 saves.

Single Season Record Watch
Reicks' five saves on the young season ties her own mark at first on the single season leader list. Roby-Miklus ranks second in stolen bases (36) while Illg and O'Brien are for seventh (17).

Coe
Haley Jones leads her team with a .523 batting average. Allie O'Brien follows at .457, and Kelsey Hora at .407. Alyssa Olson leads the starting pitchers with her 1.10 ERA and is 13-1 in 89.1 innings pitched.

Against the Conference
Wartburg leads the league in batting average (.426), hits (23), runs (24), doubles (9), RBIs (23), total bases (38), slugging percentage (.704), stolen bases (10).

Individually, Campos is tied for first in doubles (3), second in batting average (.800) and third in on-base percentage (.857). Illg is tied for second in RBIs (4) and third in slugging percentage (1.50). Stoaks leads the league in RBIs (5).

Campos and Illg are tied for first in runs scored (4).

National Stat Rankings
The Wartburg softball team (17-5 overall) ranks in the top 100 of eight statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 1st in stolen bases per game (5.05), 10th in double plays per game (.59), 15th in on-base percentage (.452), 19th in batting average (.366), 23rd in scoring (7.55), 40th in won-lost percentage (.773), 42nd in slugging percentage (.499), and 60th in home runs per game (.55).
 
Individually, eight Knights rank in the top 100 of thirteen statistical categories: Roby-Miklus ranks 1st in stolen bases (1.59), 28th in on-base percentage (.602), 32nd in runs per game (1.32), 47th in hits (34), 50th in batting average (.507); O'Brien ranks 24th in hits (37), 33rd in stolen bases (.73), and 76th in batting average (.493); Gray ranks 32nd in victories (8); senior Morgan Goedken (Iowa City) ranks 57th in sacrifice flies (2); sophomore Lauren Reicks (Cresco) ranks 1st in saves (5), 50th in walks allowed per seven innings (.83), and 62nd in earned run average (1.38); Rog  ranks 56th in victories (7); Illg ranks 11th in sacrifice flies (3), 33rd in stolen bases (.73), 50th in RBIs (25), 71st in home runs (4), and in RBIs per game (1.14); and freshman Madison Hiestand (Plainfield, Ill.) ranks 17th in saves (2).
 
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