NDSU Softball Release (3-1-17).pdf

North Dakota State (4-10) is scheduled to play Texas A&M Corpus Christi (2-10) in the first game of the Ragin' Cajun Invitational at Lamson Park in Lafayette, La. ... The Bison will play five games including two against host and No. 18/19-ranked Louisiana (11-4) ... The tournament schedule:

Louisiana Ragin' Cajun Invitational
(Lamson Park, Lafayette, La.)
Friday, March 3
BISON vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi (2-10), 1:30 p.m. | Live Stats
BISON at #18/19 Louisiana (11-4), 6 p.m. Watch Live | Live Stats | Listen
Saturday, March 4
BISON vs. Alcorn State (3-7), 11:30 a.m. | Live Stats
BISON at #18/19 Louisiana, 2 p.m. Watch Live | Live Stats | Listen
Sunday, March 5
BISON vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 9 a.m. | Live Stats

The Series
This is the first meeting between North Dakota State and Texas A&M Corpus Christi, members of the Southland Conference ...  This is the first meeting between North Dakota State and Louisiana, members of the Sun Belt Conference ... This is the first meeting between North Dakota State and Alcorn State, members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.  

Third Summit League Weekly Honor for Sertic
North Dakota State junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic was named Summit League Pitcher of the Week for third straight week on Feb. 27 ... It was Sertic's ninth career weekly honor ... Sertic went 1-2 with a 1.47 earned run average at the Gamecock Invitational (Feb. 24-26) ... She allowed 13 hits, struck out 11 and walked four over 19 innings.

Quickly Around the Horn
North Dakota State junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic threw her third career one-hitter in the 1-0 win over Ole Miss on Feb. 11 ... Video highlight of catcher Tabby Heinz' throw to second and diving grab by Lauren Reimers to nab the runner against Abilene Christian (2-18-17) was nominated for #NCAATop10 and tweeted out by @NCAAsoftball ... In the NCAA statistics (Feb. 28), North Dakota State is 24th in earned run average (1.65 ERA) ... Individually, Jacquelyn Sertic is No. 10 in strikeouts, No. 19 in shutouts and 35th in saves ... Sophomore first baseman Zoe Stavrou leads the Bison with three multi-hit and two multi RBI games this season ... Stavrou tied the NDSU single-game record for home runs in a game for the second time in her career with a pair in the 6-0 win against Ball State (2-18-17) ... Freshman shortstop Montana DeCamp leads NDSU with four two-out RBI ... Sophomore Vanessa Anderson's first career home run was a grand slam in the 7-3 win over the College of Charleston (2-26-17) ... The Bison are 0-1 in extra innings this season and stand 43-31 in extra innings under head coach Darren Mueller since 2002 ... North Dakota State is 56-51 in extra innings overall ...  Collectively, the Bison are batting .173 with a 1.65 earned run average and are fielding at .952 ... NDSU opponents are batting .212 with an 1.63 ERA and are fielding at .979 ... The Bison are averaging 1.86 runs scored per game, while opponents are averaging 2.29 ... The big inning is the fourth for NDSU with 12 runs scored ... NDSU went 17-0 during the Summit League 2016 regular season, becoming the first team since DePaul in 1999 to go unbeaten in league play ... The Bison reached 30 wins for the 10th straight season in 2016 ... The Bison have won 27 straight Summit League regular season games and 33 in a row including the past two Summit League postseason tournaments ... Last Summit League loss was against South Dakota (G2, 4-3-15).

Reina, Sertic Take Aim at NDSU Career Charts
On the NDSU career charts, senior catcher Alyssa Reina is 5th in runners caught stealing (33), 6th in slugging (.584), 7th in home runs (29), fielding (.991), chances (1159) and putouts (1069), and 9th in walks (77) ... Junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic is 7th in strikeouts/7 IP (6.83 avg.) and strikeouts (366), 8th in opponent batting average (.223), and 10th in complete games (43) and shutouts (10).

Bison Projected as Summit League Preseason Favorite
North Dakota State University was selected as The Summit League preseason softball favorites in a poll of the league's seven head coaches released Feb. 2 ... The Bison won their third consecutive league tournament title in 2016 ... NDSU collected six first-place votes for a total of 36 points ... Omaha was selected second with 27 points ... The Bison, who have won the last three Summit League tournament championships and five consecutive regular season crowns, return six all-league selections, including pitcher of the year Jacquelyn Sertic.

Former Bison Moreland to Play Professionally in Italy
Former North Dakota State University all-region shortstop Logan Moreland has signed to play professionally for Collecchio Softball of the Italian League ... Moreland (Woodland, Calif./Woodland H.S.) is the fourth NDSU softball player to compete professionally overseas, and joins former all-region pitchers and teammates Krista Menke (Italy/Netherlands) and Whitney Johnson (Netherlands), along with former All-American catcher Shelly Rhein (Italy) ... Menke won the Brewskeez Sports Cafe International Athlete of the Year Award last season.

The Mueller File
The North Dakota State head coach is Darren Mueller (16th season, 23rd overall) ... Mueller has compiled a 546-292 record (.652) including 164-34 (.828) vs. Summit League competition (including tournament) ... The Bison have had 10 straight 30-plus win season ... Mueller became the program's all-time winningest coach with the 4-1 victory at Western Illinois (4-16-11) ... North Dakota State has won seven Summit League tournament championships (2009-10-11-12, 2014-15-16) to advance to NCAA regional play ... The Bison won the NCAA Norman Regional in 2009 and advanced to the NCAA Super Regional at Arizona State ... NDSU has won six Summit League regular season crowns (2008, 2012-13-14-15-16) ... Rounding out the Bison staff are assistant coaches Gerice Olson and Beth Spoehr, along with graduate assistant manager Cheyenne Garcia and volunteer assistant Kendall Grimm ... The NDSU coaching staff earned the 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Summit League Coaching Staff of the Year honors ... The NDSU staff earned 2009, 2015 and 2016 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Midwest Coaching Staff of the Year award ... Mueller was named the 2006 and 2007 Division I Independent Coach of the Year.

Against the Nationally-Ranked
North Dakota State has won nine of its last 31 meetings with nationally-ranked opponents ... The Bison are 0-1 this season ... With the dramatic 1-0 win in 11 innings over 9th/10th-ranked Oklahoma at the 2009 NCAA Norman Regional, North Dakota State softball recorded its first win over a nationally-ranked team since beginning the transition to Division I in 2005 ... NDSU is currently 10-59 overall ... By year,
2005 (0-5) -- Lost at #21 Iowa 2-0, Lost at #25 Nebraska 7-0, Lost at #25 Nebraska 8-0, Lost at #20 Missouri 9-1, Lost at #20 Missouri 8-0;
2006 (0-5) -- Lost at #10 Oklahoma 9-0, Lost at #10 Oklahoma 7-2, Lost at #24 North Carolina 5-1, Lost at #6 Cal 10-1, Lost at #16 Nebraska 8-0;
2007 (0-1) -- Lost to #25 Oregon 6-1;
2008 (0-1) -- Lost at #9 Stanford 7-0;
2009 (1-5) -- Lost at #11 Arizona 10-0, Lost at #11 Arizona 9-2, Lost at #11 Arizona 12-0, Won at #9/10 Oklahoma 1-0 (11), Lost at #9/10 Arizona State, 3-0, Lost at #9/10 Arizona State 11-0;
2010 (0-4) -- Lost vs. #6 Arizona 6-0, Lost at #21 Texas A&M 4-0, Lost at #21 Texas A&M 5-2, Lost at #1 Washington, 3-0;
2011 (0-10) -- Lost at #1/2 UCLA 7-0, Lost at #1/2 UCLA 15-2 (5), Lost at #2/4 Georgia 14-4 (5), Lost at #16/17 Stanford 12-0 (5), Lost vs. #24 Kentucky 5-4 (8), Lost at #2/3 Florida 18-0 (5), Lost at #2/3 Florida (9-0), Lost at #13/17 Missouri 4-3, Lost at #13/17 Missouri  11-2 (5), Lost at #1 Arizona State 10-1 (5);
2012 (1-6) -- Lost at #2 Alabama 9-4, Lost at #2 Alabama 3-2, Lost at #5 Arizona State 10-2 (5), Lost at #21 Texas A&M 6-0, Lost at #15 Baylor 1-0 (8), Lost at #15 Arizona 11-0 (5), Won vs. #13 Hawai'i 9-7;
2013 (2-5) — Lost vs. #1 Alabama 10-0 (5), Lost at #10 LSU 9-0 (5), Lost at #23 Georgia 4-1, Won at #23 Georgia 3-0, Lost at #12 UCLA 7-1, Won at #20 Nebraska 13-0, Lost at #20 Nebraska 11-0 (5);
2014 ­(2-6)— Lost at #12 Florida State 4-1, Lost at #12 Florida State 9-0 (5), Lost at #12 Florida State 5-0, Won at #22 Stanford 4-0, Lost at #18 Missouri 11-2 (5), Won vs. #21 Auburn 5-2, Lost at #14 Minnesota 4-1, Lost vs. #21 Auburn 1-0;
2015 (3-5) -- Won 6-5 vs. #17 Washington, lost at #11 Tennessee 14-3 (5), #10/12 lost 8-0 (5) at Minnesota, Won 5-4 at #10/12 Minnesota, Won 7-3 at #21 South Alabama, Lost 7-6 (8) at #21 South Alabama; Lost at #1 Oregon 4-3; Lost at #1 Oregon 6-1.
2016 (1-5) -- Lost at #2 Alabama 15-2 (5); Won at #2 Alabama 2-1; Lost vs. #22 Baylor 4-2; Lost vs. #22 Baylor 8-5; Lost vs. #19 Minnesota 7-2; Lost vs. #19 Minnesota 7-5.
2017 (0-1) -- Lost at #10/11 Arizona, 2-1; at #18/19 Louisiana; at #18/19 Louisiana