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