WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg softball team (26-10 overall) will compete in the American Rivers Conference Tournament this weekend. The Knights are the No. 3 seed and will face No. 6 seed Simpson (20-18) Friday at 4:30 p.m. in Pella. Central will serve as host.

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The Series
The Storm owns the all-time series lead at 45-35, though the Knights have won four of the last five. The teams split the regular season twinbill in Indianola this year.

Tournament Schedule
Friday, May 3
Game 1 - 2:00 PM #5 Dubuque 7, #4 Luther 5
Game 2 - 4:30 PM #3 Wartburg vs #6 Simpson

Saturday, May 4
Game 3 - 11:00 AM #1 Central vs #5 Dubuque
Game 4 - 1:30 PM #2 Coe vs Winner of #3/6
Game 5 - 4:00 PM Game 3 Winner vs Game 4 Winner
(Sunday, May 6 is the rain date.) 

Wartburg
Senior Kailee O'Brien (Altoona) leads the team with her .420 average. Freshman Sydney Illg (Grimes) follows at .417 and senior Liz Roby-Miklus (Ankeny) rounds out the leading hitters at .402.

Roby-Miklus has a team-best 50 stolen bases and Illg has a team-high 40 RBIs. Freshman Olivia Brecht (Center Point) leads the team with 13 doubles.

Sophomore Maddie Rog (Norridge, Ill.) leads the starting pitchers with a 2.74 ERA and has a team-best 58 strikeouts.

Career Record Watch
Roby-Miklus continues to extend her lead as the program leader in stolen bases and has 114 to date. She also ranks tied for fourth in runs (114), and ninth in hits (147). O'Brien ranks third in stolen bases with 56, and is fourth in hits with 174.

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 set the record in stolen bases (50), while Illg is fourth (25) and O'Brien is tied for fifth (20).

Brecht is tied for fifth in doubles (13) and Illg is tied for 10th in RBIs (38).

Wartburg in the Conference Tournament
The Knights are 13-4 all-time in the Conference Tournament. This is their seventh overall appearance and third in four years.

National Stat Rankings
The Knights rank in the top 100 of eight categories.

The Orange and Black are: second in stolen bases/game (4.28), 19th in on-base percentage (.425), 22nd in doubles/game (.47), 23rd in batting average (.351), 29th in scoring (6.81), 53rd in slugging percentage (.477), 55th in win/loss percentage (.722), and 76th in home runs/game (.53).

Individually, seven players rank in the top 100.

Illg is 39th in RBIs/game (1.14), 43rd in RBIs (41), 46th in stolen bases/game  (0.67), 94th in home runs (7)

Levine is 88th in RBIs/game (1.03) and O'Brien is 85th in stolen bases/game (.54). Roby-Miklus leads the country in stolen bases/game (1.36), and is 38th in runs/game (1.14)

Reicks leads the nation in saves (5) and freshman Madison Hiestand (Plainfield, Ill.) is 44th in saves (2). Rog is 69th in wins (13).