WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg softball team (19-7, 4-2 A-R-C) hosts Central (14-4, 4-0)  Tuesday at 4 p.m. The Dutch are tied for first in the conference standings, and the Knights are fifth.

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The Series
Central leads the all-time series at 57-26. The Dutch have claimed the last four-straight.

Wartburg
Senior Kailee O'Brien (Altoona) now leads the team with her .473 batting average and classmate Liz Roby-Miklus (Ankeny) follows at 470. Roby-Miklus has a team-best 40 stolen bases, and has now reached base in all 26 games this season, and 30 consecutive games, dating back to 2018

Freshman Sydney Illg (Grimes) has a team-best 28 RBIs. Sophomore Maddie Rog (Norridge, Ill.) leads the starting pitchers with 4.00 ERAs and has a team-best 40 strikeouts.

Career Record Watch
Roby-Miklus continues to extend her lead as the program leader in stolen bases and has 103 to date. O'Brien ranks third with 55 and is fifth in hits with 167.

Reicks is the all-time leader with 10 saves.

Single Season Record Watch
Reicks' five saves ties her own mark at first on the single season leader list. Roby-Miklus ranks second in stolen bases (40) while O'Brien is sixth (19) and Illg is seventh (18).

Central
Shaye Witte leads her team with a .479 average. Sara Tallman follows at .475, Kaitlyn Andresen at .431, and Lauren Bagby at .409. Danielle Riley leads the starting pitchers with her 2.95 ERA in 40.1 innings pitched.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of eight statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
 
The Knights rank 1^st in stolen bases per game (4.77), 13^th in double plays per game (.54), 15^th in on-base percentage (.443), 17^th in batting average (.364), 26^th in scoring (7.19), 44^th in slugging percentage (.49), 55^th in won-lost percentage (.731), and 73^rd in home runs per game (.5).
 
Individually, nine Knights rank in the top 100 of twelve statistical categories: Roby-Miklus  ranks 1^st in stolen bases (1.5), 13^th in runs per game (1.31), 30^th in on-base percentage (.566), 48^th in hits (39), and 67^th in batting average (.476);  O'Brien ranks 13^th in hits (44), 39^th in stolen bases (.69), and 55^th in batting average (.484); Gray  ranks 86^th in victories (8); Reicks ranks 1^st in saves (5) and 52^nd in walks allowed per seven innings (.88); Rog ranks 86^th in victories (8); sophomore Madison Stoaks (Clive) ranks 99^th in on-base percentage (.526); Illg ranks 20^th in sacrifice flies (3), 46^th in stolen bases (.65), 54^th in RBIs (29), and 69^th in RBIs per game (1.12); freshman Madison Hiestand (Plainfield, Ill.) ranks 21^st in saves (2); freshman Grace Peterson (Joliet, ILL.) ranks 56^th in triples (3).