SOUTH DAKOTA STATE at NORTH DAKOTA STATE |
South Dakota State makes its final road trip of the regular season to North Dakota State this weekend for a three-game series with the Bison. SDSU is 29-10 (10-2 Summit) on the season while NDSU is 25-17 (7-4 Summit).
SDSU is coming off a three-game sweep over Kansas City in Brookings last weekend. The Jackrabbits run-ruled the Roos in the first two games before needing eight innings to win 1-0 in game three.
Rozelyn Carrillo hit a walk-off homer in game three for the 1-0 victory.
South Dakota State leads the Summit League in ERA (0.85), home runs (23), on-base percentage (.418) and slugging percentage (.579).
Rozelyn Carrillo is batting .500 in conference games, which leads the conference. She also leads the league in hits (19) and RBIs (18).
Allison Yoder is batting .350, ranking eighth.
SDSU's pitching staff is holding opponents to a .160 batting average, which ranks first among Summit League teams.
Grace Glanzer is 7-0 in conference games and has a 0.69 Summit League ERA, ranking first.
Tori Kniesche ranks second in conference strikeouts with 52 and in ERA at 1.08.
KEY STORYLINES
- The Jackrabbits are 31-3 in Summit League games over the past two seasons.
- SDSU is coming off a 3-0 weekend against Kansas City in which the Jacks outscored the Roos 20-2 over three games.
- Rozelyn Carrillo is the reigning Summit League Player of the Week after batting .600 in the KC series with six hits, six runs and five RBIs. She also hit a grand slam in the midweek game at Minnesota.
- Grace Glanzer went 2-0 against the Roos and posted a 0.00 ERA in the series.
- Rozelyn Carrillo is batting .397 on the year to lead the Jackrabbits and has 50 hits and 39 RBIs, also team bests.
- Four other Jacks are hitting above .300 - Lindsey Culver (.322), Peyton Daugherty (.320), Emma Osmundson (.311) and Cylie Halvorson (.310).
- Rozelyn Carrillo leads the Summit League with a .500 batting average in conference games.
- Rozelyn Carrillo enters the weekend on a 16-game hitting streak.
- The SDSU pitching staff is holding Summit League opponents to a .85 ERA and .160 batting average
- Tori Kniesche is 12-5 on the year with a 1.85 ERA. She has struck out 10+ batters in nine of her 22 appearances this season.
- Grace Glanzer is 15-4 on the season. She has a 2.07 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 121.2 innings pitched.
- Grace Glanzer's .69 ERA in conference games leads the Summit League. Tori Kniesche's 1.08 ERA ranks third.
- Rozelyn Carrillo has 14 multi-hit games this season while Emma Osmundson has 13 and Peyton Daugherty has 12.
- Cylie Halvorson's 12 home runs leads the team and the Summit League. She had 19 last season, a new school record.
- 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.
- The Jackrabbits were picked to repeat as Summit League Champs in the preseason poll.
-GoJacks.com-