Upcoming Event: Softball versus Minnesota Crookston on September 28, 2025 at 1 p.m.
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1 p.m.
Softball
vs Minnesota Crookston
South Dakota State University Athletics
Friday, April 15
Brookings, S.D. | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium
3:00 PM
South Dakota State University
vs
Kansas City
Photo by: Dave Eggen/Inertia
STATE HOSTS KANSAS CITY
4/14/2022 3:52:00 PM | Softball
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE vs KANSAS CITY |
| When | Friday, April 15Â - Time TBD (Weather dependent) Saturday, April 16 - Time TBD (Weather dependent) |
| Live Video | GoJacks.com/Watch |
| Live Stats | GoJacksLive.com |
| Game Notes | South Dakota State | Kansas City | Summit League |
| Social Media | Twitter I Facebook |
South Dakota State returns home to host Kansas City in a three-game Summit League series Friday and Saturday. SDSU is 26-10 (7-2 Summit) on the season while Kansas City is 8-26 (4-4 Summit).
SDSU is coming off an 8-9 eight-inning loss at Minnesota Wednesday. After taking an 8-3 lead over the Gophers the Jacks gave up six unanswered runs, including a walk-off homer.
Prior to the Minnesota the loss, the Jackrabbits most recently swept Western Illinois at home last weekend, outscoring the Leathernecks 26-0 in three run-rule victories.
South Dakota State leads the Summit League in batting average (.319), ERA (1.04), home runs (19), on-base percentage (.430) and slugging percentage (.600).
Rozelyn Carrillo is batting .464 in conference games, which leads the conference. She also leads the league in hits (13) and RBIs (13). Allison Yoder is batting .412, ranking fourth.
SDSU's pitching staff is holding opponents to a .217 batting average, which ranks second among Summit League teams. Tori Kniesche ranks second in the league in strikeouts with 155 and in ERA at 1.78. Grace Glanzer's 13 wins lead the league and her 2.34 ERA ranks fourth.
KEY STORYLINES
- The Jackrabbits are 28-3 in Summit League games over the past two seasons.
- Prior to its loss at Minnesota Wednesday SDSU was coming off a 3-0 weekend against Western Illinois in which the Jacks outscored the Leathernecks 26-0 over three games.
- SDSU jumped out to an 8-3 lead over the Gophers before giving up six unanswered runs, including a walk-off homer in the eighth inning.
- Tori Kniesche is the reigning Summit League Pitcher of the Week after striking out 22 and giving up just one hit in 10 innings pitched last weekend.
- Cheyanne Masteron was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate against Western Illinois with all three hits being home runs. She made three other trips to the plate - walking twice and recording one sacrifice fly.
- Rozelyn Carrillo is batting .379 on the year to lead the Jackrabbits and has 44 hits and 34 RBIs, also team bests.
- Rozelyn Carrillo hit her second grand slam of the season against Minnesota Wednesday.
- Rozelyn Carrillo enters the weekend on a 13-game hitting streak.
- Five other Jacks are hitting above .300 - Emma Osmundson (.336), Lindsey Culver (.336), Peyton Daugherty (.309), Cylie Halvorson (.308) and Allison Yoder (.305).
- Lindsey Culver and Cylie Halvorson have eight multi-RBI games each.
- Emma Osmundson has 13 multi-hit games this season while Rozelyn Carrillo has 12 and Peyton Daugherty has 11.
- Cylie Halvorson's 10 home runs leads the team and ranks second in The Summit League. She had 19 last season, a new school record.
- Tori Kniesche is 11-5 on the year with a 1.88 ERA. She has struck out 10+ batters in nine of her 21 appearances this season.
- Tori Kniesche is averaging 1.49 strikeouts per inning and 10.4 strikeouts per seven innings.
- Grace Glanzer is 13-4 on the season. She has a 2.34 ERA and 100 strikeouts in 107.2 innings pitched.
- SDSU returns all nine all-Summit players from a season ago, including Player of the Year Cylie Halvorson, Pitcher of the Year Tori Kniesche and Freshman of the Year Grace Glanzer.
-GoJacks.com-
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