Softball Plays Against Northern State, Concordia-St. Paul and Minnesota State This Week

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St. Cloud State

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Softball Plays Against Northern State, Concordia-St. Paul and Minnesota State This Week

4/3/2017 4:51:00 PM | Softball

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The St. Cloud State softball team (20-12, 4-2 NSIC) continues Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) play by traveling to Northern State (18-11-1, 3-2-1 NSIC) on Tuesday, April 4, in a doubleheader on the road at Moccasin Creek Complex starting at 2 p.m. The program then returns home and continues league play by hosting a pair of NSIC opponents in doubleheaders against Concordia-St. Paul (10-17, 2-4 NSIC) on Saturday, April 8, starting 1 p.m. and against No. 21 Minnesota State (28-4, 6-0 NSIC) on Sunday, April 9, beginning at 1 p.m. The home games are tentatively scheduled to be held outdoors at Selke Field at the moment, but please check scsuhuskies.com later in the week to see if the contests will be changed to the indoor venue of the Husky Dome

Senior Day – Jordin Novak

This year each of St. Cloud State's seven senior softball players has chosen a day to have their Senior Day on.
On April 8, senior Jordin Novak will be honored and recognized.
Novak is an infielder/outfielder from Coon Rapids, Minn. and is a three-year player for SCSU after transferring in from Northern State following her freshman season.
She has played in 85 games with 66 starts.
Novak has totaled 21 runs scored, 37 hits, 10 doubles, three triples, a home run, 26 RBIs in her career.
The daughter of Sheri Novak, Don Novak and Deb Novak.

Senior Day – Brianne Hightshoe

On April 9, senior Brianne Hightshoe will be honored and recognized
Hightshoe is an outfielder from Iowa City, Iowa
She has played in 111 career games with two starts in her four years with the program.
Hightshoe has crossed the plate 40 times and stolen 16 bases.
She picked up the first two hits and RBI of her career this season.
Hightshoe was named to the 2016 NSIC Spring All-Academic Team
She is the daughter of Tracy and Jeff Hightshoe

Notables

Northern State will be running live stats / live video on their website on Tuesday
St. Cloud State has live stats for the two home games on Saturday against Concordia-St. Paul and the two home games on Sunday against Minnesota State.
The Huskies are 27-6 against Northern State in a series that began in 1980
SCSU has a 27-22 record against Concordia-St. Paul in a series that started during the 1978 season.
The Huskies have a 55-74 record against the Mavericks of Minnesota State since the schools started meeting on the softball diamond in 1976.
Northern State has won six of the team's last nine games.
The program played four games in Bemidji, Minn. over the weekend with a win and a tie because of darkness against Minnesota Crookston on Saturday and then a pair of losses to Bemidji State on Sunday.
Jenna Helgeson is hitting .375 with 27 runs, 33 hits, six doubles, five home runs, 20 RBIs and 13 walks.
Katie Dawson is hitting .373 with nine runs, 25 hits, five home runs and 27 RBIs.
Rachel Albright has a 3-0 record and a 2.04 ERA in her 37.2 innings pitched.
Jamie Fisher is 7-4 with a 2.70 ERA and 47 strikeouts in her 70-innings thrown.
Missy Elkins has eight wins and a 3.37 ERA in her 83-innings thrown.
Concordia-St. Paul split its two conference doubleheaders over the weekend with wins over Wayne State on Saturday and losses to Augustana on Sunday.
The program has been led by Nicole Thompson, who is hitting .418 with 16 runs, 33 hits and eight stolen bases.
Justine Schattner is hitting .366 with 14 runs, 30 hits, seven doubles, two home runs and 18 RBIs
Carlie Hart is hitting .376 with 16 runs, 32 hits and seven doubles.
Samantha Sullivan has won five games with 85.1 innings thrown and 45 strikeouts.
Linzy Heim also has five wins in her 68.2 innings pitched.
Minnesota State is ranked in each of the polls this week and have won 23 of the last 24 games.
The program has started NSIC play with sweeps of Concordia-St. Paul, Augustana and Wayne State.
Jess Meidi is hitting .490 with 31 runs, 48 hits, 10 doubles, two triples, five home runs, 28 RBIs and 13 stolen bases
McKenzie Paap sports a .420 batting average, 34 runs, 42 hits and 25 stolen bases.
Carly Esselman is hitting .354 with 29 runs, 29 hits and 15 stolen bases
Amber Kral is hitting .351 with 29 runs, 33 hits, nine home runs and 29 RBIs
Ashey Thell has 10 doubles and 30 RBIs
Coley Reis is 14-2 with a 1.00 ERA, 14 complete games, six shutouts and has struck out 181 in 105.0 innings worked.
Libby Bemis is 14-2 with 1.34 ERA, nine complete games with 98 strikeouts in 89 innings worked.

SCSU Notables

St. Cloud State went 4-2 last week including four straight wins at home at the Husky Dome to close out the week.
Jessica Goerger led the team in the six games with her 10 hits and .476 batting average.
Abby Bunnell tallied a .429 batting average with five runs, nine hits, a triple and five RBIs.
Alyssa Coletto recorded seven hits, two doubles, a home run and four RBIs plus two walks.
Morgan Emmans drove in four runs on her four hits.
Megan Hedstrom went 3-0 and the week was highlighted by her throwing a perfect game against the University of Mary in which she only allowed one ball to be hit out of the infield with four strikeouts.
Her perfect game was the program's first since Kelly Franks threw one also against the University of Mary during the 2015 season
Coletto leads the team with her .433 batting average, 39 hits and 11 doubles on the season.
She is second in the league in doubles, fourth in hits and total bases (64), fifth in on-base percentage (.510) and sixth in batting average and slugging percentage (.711)
Maya Keating is hitting .385 with 21 runs, 35 hits, 12 stolen bases plus 13 walks and a .472 on-base percentage.
Keating is sixth in the NSIC in walks, eighth in stolen bases and ninth in hits.
Emmans has a .352 batting average, six doubles, three home runs and 22 RBIs
She is sixth in the NSIC with a pair of sacrifice flies and seventh with two triples.
Jaiden Lund sports a .315 batting average with 19 runs, 29 hits, five home runs and 19 RBIs.
Lund is sixth in the league in home runs.
Libby Bingham leads the league in sacrifice bunts with seven.
Rebecca Harps is fifth in the league with her four sacrifice bunts.
Goerger has a .351 batting average and 31 RBIs.
She leads the NSIC in RBIs and is sixth in sacrifice flies (2).
Abby Bunnell is hitting .349 with 27 runs, 38 hits and 26 stolen bases.
Bunnell leads the NSIC in stolen bases, is fifth in hits, sixth in runs, seventh in triples (2).
Hedstrom has a 2.94 ERA, six complete games, four saves and 59 strikeouts in 93 innings.
Her four saves lead the league and are the fourth-most in the nation.
She is second in appearances, third in innings pitched, fifth in strikeouts and sixth in wins (9)
Senior Kate Kopeck is 9-5 with 59 strikeouts in her 82.1 innings thrown
The Huskies rank in the top half of the conference in batting average (.319 – 5th), fielding percentage (.967 – 6th), on-base percentage (.393 – 4th), scoring (5.22 – 6th), stolen bases per game (1.81 – 2nd), triples per game (0.22 – 6th), and win/loss percentage (.625 – 6th)

Up Next

The Huskies have six games on the road next week starting against Bemidji State on Wednesday, April 12, at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. The program then travels to play against Upper Iowa on Friday, April 14, at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. SCSU wraps up the week with a trip to Winona State for games on Saturday, April 15, at noon and 2 p.m.