Softball Wraps Up Regular Season This Week

Wednesday, April 20

St. Cloud, Minn.

3:00 p.m.

St. Cloud State

Minnesota State University Moorhead

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SCSU welcomes in MSU Moorhead on Wednesday and takes on University of Mary and Minot State over the Weekend in North Dakota

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The St. Cloud State softball team (23-26, 9-15 NSIC) finishes regular season play in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) this week by hosting MSU Moorhead and then gets on the road to play against University of Mary and Minot State. The Huskies are slated to take on MSU Moorhead (14-26, 7-17 NSIC) in a doubleheader on Wednesday, April 20, at 3 p.m. SCSU then travels to Bismarck, N.D. to square off against Mary (14-28, 8-15 NSIC) for two games on Saturday, April 23, at 1 p.m. The team's final regular season games of the season are on Sunday, April 24, at noon in Minot, N.D. against Minot State (15-26, 4-19 NSIC).

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Senior Day – Senna Francesconi

This year each of St. Cloud State's four senior softball players has chosen a day to have their Senior Day on.
On April 20, senior Senna Francesconi will be honored and recognized.
Francesconi is from Schomberg, Ontario and has been a three-year member of the softball team at SCSU after transferring from Georgian Court following her freshman season.
She was named to the 2015 NSIC All-Academic Team
Francesconi has made 88 career appearances and 52 starts in the circle in her career.
She has 25 career wins, 20 complete games, a pair of shutouts and 274 strikeouts in 354.2 innings thrown
In 2016, Francesconi leads the team with her 11 wins, 28 appearances, 24 games started, 10 complete games, 145.1 innings pitched and 93 strikeouts.
She has twice struck out nine batters in a game in her career.
Francesconi threw a career-high 10.1 innings against Wayne State College on April 17
The daughter of Cliff and Tracey Francesconi is a statistics major at SCSU.

Notables

St. Cloud State is running live stats for its Wednesday games against MSU Moorhead
The live stats for the team's games against UMary at the University of Mary Softball Field can be found here.
The live stat link for the games against Minot State at Herb Parker Stadium can be found here.
The Huskies are 63-22 against MSU Moorhead in a series that began in 1975.
SCSU has a 14-14 record against the University of Mary since the teams started playing each other in 1987.
The Huskies trail the all-time series with Minot State by a 7-3 count since the school started playing each other in 1981.
MSU Moorhead has lost its last three games and went 2-4 last weekend in its games against Northern State, Winona State and Upper Iowa.
The Dragons have been led by Kristy Bruni, who is hitting .300 with 36 hits, seven doubles, three home runs and 19 RBIs.
She is one of four players in the lineup that has reached double figures in RBIs this season.
Lauren Meeker has tallied 15 RBIs on her nine doubles this season
Morgan Nybo has been the top pitcher for MSU Moorhead with a 3.23 ERA, 14 complete games and 93 strikeouts in 119.1 innings thrown
Kristen Nordby has a team-high seven wins and has thrown 106 innings with 70 strikeouts.
The University of Mary has lost two in a row, but prior to dropping both games on Sunday to Minnesota State had won six of the last seven games.
The team went 3-3 last week with pair of wins over Concordia and split doubleheader with Minot State.
The Marauders will play against Minnesota Crookston on Wednesday, April 20, and then has a non-conference match-up with Dickinson State on Thursday, April 21, before welcoming in SCSU for Saturday's games, April 23.
Saturday's games against the University of Mary is Breast Cancer Awareness Day for the Marauders.
UMary has been led by Taylor Mendez this season, who is hitting .402 with 34 runs, 53 hits, six doubles, 13 home runs, 31 RBIs, 98 total bases, a .742 slugging percentage and an on-base percentage of .451
Alana Norma has totaled 53 hits and 22 runs with her .371 batting average.
Amber Gamboa sports a .336 batting average, 37 hits and 19 RBIs
Shawnee Zink had seven home runs and 20 RBIs
Colleen Crutchfield has walked 16 times and hit six home runs with 19 RBIs
Melanie Rodriguez has been the team's top pitcher with six wins, 108.2 innings pitched, 53 strikeouts, nine complete games in 19 starts.
The Beavers swept both games on the road over Concordia-St. Paul last weekend and had a 3-3 overall record last week.
Minot State plays against Bemidji State on Wednesday and Minnesota Duluth on Saturday before closing out the regular season at home against SCSU on Sunday.
The Beavers are only 1-10 at home this season
Ashley Hill has been the team's top hitter with her .370 batting average, five home runs, 24 RBIs and 16 walks.
Jordan Grant leads the team with her 55 hits and 25 stolen bases.
Rachel Burdette has 16 extra base hits this season (six doubles, four triples and six home runs).
Alyssa Cornejo and Jenn Spencer are tied for the team lead with six wins each
Spencer also leads the team in the circle with her 23 appearances, 17 starts, seven complete games, 106.2 innings pitched and 70 strikeouts.
The Huskies went 1-5 last week with the team's win coming over Augustana on Saturday, April 16.
Junior Alyssa Coletto hit three home runs and drove in five runs on the week, while also leading the team with her nine hits and a .429 batting average.
Senior Taige Puetz sported a .412 batting average, seven hits and three RBIs
Junior Rebecca Harps totaled eight hits, two doubles, three RBIs and a .381 batting average.
Junior Jessica Goerger made her five hits on the week count with three home runs, seven RBIs and 14 total bases.
The Huskies hit seven home runs as a team on the week in the six games.
Senior Senna Francesconi had an epic 10.1 inning performance in the 5-3 loss in 11 innings to Wayne State.
The 10.1 innings pitched was a career-high for Francesconi and longest outing for an SCSU pitcher in at least the last 10 seasons.
Her 10.1 innings thrown against Wayne State was the third time in her career that she has thrown more than seven innings in a game.
Francesconi led the team with her 21.2 innings thrown and 17 strikeouts on the week.
Harps took over the team lead in hits (52) and batting average (.356) this week.
She also has scored 28 runs, has 24 RBIs, 64 total bases and nine stolen bases.
Harps and sophomore Veronica Wold are tied for the team lead with 10 doubles each.
Goerger is hitting .352 with 21 runs, 43 hits, six doubles, two triples, 11 home runs, 37 RBIs, 86 total bases, .705 slugging percentage and .474 on-base percentage.
She ranks in the top 10 in the NSIC in several categories including slugging percentage (6th), on-base percentage (9th), RBIs (7th), home runs (t-3rd) and walks (6th),
Coletto is hitting .342 with 20 runs, 51 hits, six doubles, five home runs, 19 RBIs and 76 total bases.
Freshman Kate Kopeck leads the in ERA at 3.42 with a 5-2 record.
Francesconi has team-highs of 11 wins, 28 appearances, 24 games started, 10 complete games, 145.1 innings pitched and 93 strikeouts.

Up Next
After this week, SCSU softball will await word of the team's potential matchup in the NSIC Softball Tournament starting on Thursday April 28 in Sioux Falls, S.D. at Sherman Park. The double elimination tournament that is played on two fields will conclude on Saturday, April 30. The top 10 teams in the final NSIC standings secure bids into the tournament. The Huskies enter the week sitting in 11th place in the conference with six games to play.