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1 p.m.
Softball
vs Minnesota Crookston
South Dakota State University Athletics
Saturday, April 9
Brookings, S.D. | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium
12:00 PM
South Dakota State University
vs
Western Illinois
SDSU HOSTS WESTERN ILLINOIS IN HOME OPENER
4/8/2022 5:02:00 PM | Softball
| SOUTH DAKOTA STATE vs WESTERN ILLINOIS |
| When | Saturday, April 9Â at 12 p.m. Saturday, April 9 at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10 at 11 a.m. |
| Live Video | GoJacks.com/Watch |
| Live Stats | GoJacksLive.com |
| Game Notes | South Dakota State | Western Illinois | Summit League |
| Social Media | Twitter I Facebook |
South Dakota State continues the Summit League season with its home opener this weekend against Western Illinois.
The Jackrabbits are 23-9 on the year and 4-2 in Summit League play. SDSU went 2-1 in Vermillion last weekend, dropping game one against the Coyotes before bouncing back to win games two and three 20-0 and 4-1.
Twenty runs in a game is a school record for the Jackrabbit program while Rozelyn Carrillo's seven RBIs is also an individual program best.
South Dakota State leads the Summit League in batting average (.297), ERA (2.38), home runs (37), on-base percentage (.373) and slugging percentage (.475).
SDSU's pitching staff is holding opponents to a .222 batting average, which ranks second among Summit League teams. Tori Kniesche ranks second in the league in strikeouts with 137 and in ERA at 1.97. Grace Glanzer's 12 wins lead the league and her 2.46 ERA ranks fourth.
KEY STORYLINES
- The Jackrabbits are 25-3 in Summit League games over the past two seasons.
- Rozelyn Carrillo is the reigning Summit League Player of the Week after the sophomore batted .556 in the series at South Dakota. She had eight RBIs, a pair of home runs (including a grand slam) two walks and a sacrifice fly.
- Grace Glanzer went 2-0 last weekend and allowed only one run and one walk in 11 innings pitched.
- The Jackrabbit offense outscored USD 27-6 in Vermillion.
- Rozelyn Carrillo is batting .369 on the year to lead the Jackrabbits and has 38 hits and 27 RBIs on the year, both team highs.
- Rozelyn Carrillo enters the weeked on a nine-game hitting streak.
- Two other Jacks are hitting above .300 - Emma Osmundson (.356) and Lindsey Culver (.343)
- Emma Osmundson has 12 multi-hit games this season while Lindsey Culver, Rozelyn Carrillo and Peyton Daugherty have 10 apiece.
- Lindsey Culver has seven multi-RBI games.
- Cylie Halvorson's eight home runs leads the team and rank second in The Summit League. She had 19 last season, a new school record.
- Tori Kniesche is 10-5 on the year with a 1.97 ERA. She has struck out 10+ batters in seven of her 18 appearances this season.
- Tori Kniesche is averaging 1.42 strikeouts per inning and 9.05 strikeouts per seven innings.
- Grace Glanzer was the winning pitcher in each of the last two games of the South Dakota series to improve to 12-3 on the season. She has a 2.25 ERA and 90 strikeouts in 96.1 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.
- The Jackrabbits were picked to repeat as Summit League Champs after going 21-1 to win the regular season and also claimed the Summit League tournament title for the first time in program history.
- SDSU ranked ninth nationally in slugging percentage (.560) and 14th in ERA (1.87) in the nation last season, one of three schools in the country to rank in the top 15 in both categories.
-GoJacks.com-
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