NDSU Hosts South Dakota in Summit League Softball Series on April 14-15

Friday, April 14

Fargo, N.D.

12 p.m.

North Dakota State

South Dakota

Photo by: Carrie Snyder

NDSU Hosts South Dakota in Summit League Softball Series on April 14-15

4/12/2017 11:42:00 AM | Softball

NDSU Softball Release.pdf

Friday, April 14
BISON vs. South Dakota, 12 p.m. Live Stats I Live Video (PPV) BEK Prime
BISON vs. South Dakota, 2:30 p.m. Live Stats I Live Video (PPV) BEK Prime
Saturday, April 15
BISON vs. South Dakota, 11 a.m. Live Stats I Live Audio / Bison 1660 AM - 92.7 FM I Live Video (PPV) BEK Prime

North Dakota State (4-2 SL, 17-23) is scheduled host South Dakota (4-5 SL, 13-24) in a Summit League three-game series on April 14-15 at the Ellig Sports Complex ... NDSU and South Dakota play a noon doubleheader Friday, April 14, and close out the series with an 11 a.m. single-game Saturday, April 15 ... All three games will be televised statewide on BEK Prime ... Saturday's game will be broadcast by Bison 1660 AM with Keith Brake handling the call ... NDSU defeated North Dakota 3-1 in a non-conference game April 11 in Grand Forks ... The Bison are 1-2 at home, the Coyotes are 3-8 on the road.

The Series
This will be the 75th meeting between North Dakota State and South Dakota ... The Bison lead the series 51-23 ... NDSU beat USD in a regular season doubleheader and edged the Coyotes 9-8 in Summit League quarterfinals during the 2016 season.

Quickly Around the Horn
North Dakota State freshman left fielder Stephanie Soriano #Squints and sophomore Vanessa Anderson #ThePunisher tied the school record with two home runs in the second game against IUPUI (4-8-17) ... Anderson tied the record for the second straight weekend ... Soriano became the 16th Bison player to tie the record ... The record has been achieved 28 times ... Anderson has hit nine home runs this season ... Her first career home run was a grand slam in the 7-3 win over the College of Charleston (2-26-17) ... NDSU defeated Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17) in 12 innings, matching the longest game in program history ... The Bison are 1-1 in extra innings this season and stand 44-31 in extra innings under head coach Darren Mueller since 2002 ... North Dakota State is 57-51 in extra innings overall ... NDSU head coach Darren Mueller reached career win No. 550 with the 3-1 victory at Stetson University (3-10-17) ... In NCAA statistics (April 10), individually, Jacquelyn Sertic #TheScientist is No.2 in strikeouts (234) and No. 42 in strikeouts per 7 innings (8.2 avg.) ... Soriano leads the Bison with 10 multi-hit games ... Zoe Stavrou #ZOWIE and Anderson top NDSU with seven multi-RBI games ... Bre Beatty #FreeBird leads NDSU with nine two-out RBI, Julie #LuckyLuciano, Montana DeCamp and Anderson are next with eight ... Collectively, the Bison are batting .230 with a 3.10 earned run average and are fielding at .963 ... NDSU opponents are batting .256 with an 2.51 ERA and are fielding at .961 ... The Bison are averaging 3.28 runs scored per game, while opponents are averaging 3.9 ... The big inning is the sixth for NDSU with 26 runs scored ... The Bison had its 30-game Summit League regular season and 36 in a row including the past two Summit League postseason tournaments snapped against IUPUI on April 8.

Zowie, The Punisher, Squints Tie Home Run Record
North Dakota State freshman left fielder Stephanie Soriano #Squints and sophomore first baseman Vanessa Anderson #ThePunisher both tied the school record with two home runs against IUPUI in game two April 8 ... Soriano became the 16th Bison player to tie the record ... The record has been achieved 28 times ... Anderson tied the record for the second time including the pair at Fort Wayne (4-2-17) ... Fellow sophomore Zoe Stavrou #ZOWIE hit two home runs in the 6-0 win against Ball State (2-18-17) ... Stavrou tied the record for the second time in her career.

NDSU-Georgia Tech Marathon Produces Records
North Dakota State freshman left fielder Stephanie Soriano #Squints tied the single-game record with five base hits and seven at-bats at Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17) ... The Bison won 8-6 in 12 innings ... Soriano became the fifth NDSU player collect five hits, the first since Melissa Chmielewski did it vs. Saint Mary's, Calif. (3-5-08) ... Junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic #TheScientist struck out a career-high 19 at Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17) to match the single-game record set by Whitney Johnson in eight-inning win against Toledo (2-9-12) ... Sertic became the third pitcher to throw 12 innings in a game, the first since Amber Garrett at Colorado State (4-26-06) ... NDSU tied the school record for the longest game for the fifth time in program history, the last time came against UMKC (4-22-12) ... NDSU junior catcher Tabby Heinz #Toby tied the school record with 21 putouts at Georgia Tech (G1, 3-25-17), matching Janice Thompson's effort vs. South Dakota State (4-6-84)

The Scientist's Research Nets Shutouts, Double-Figure Ks
North Dakota State junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic #TheScientist collected a pair of shutouts at the Ragin' Cajun Invitational on March 3-5 ... Sertic has four shutouts this season and 12 in her career ... Sertic has reached double-figure strikeouts nine times this season and 15 times in her career, the last coming with 15 strikeouts at North Dakota (4-11-17) ... Sertic has compiled a 47-29 record with three saves over three seasons.

Sertic, Luciano Take Aim at NDSU Career Charts
On the NDSU career charts, junior right-hander Jacquelyn Sertic is 6th in strikeouts/7 IP (7.39 avg.), strikeouts (527), and batters faced (2125), 7th in saves (3), 8th in appearances (98), 9th in wins (47), innings pitched (499.1), starts (74), complete games (57) and shutouts (12), and 10th in opponent batting avg. (232) ... Junior third baseman Julia Luciano is tied for 7th in times hit by pitch (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 ... 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 Playing Professionally in Italy
Former North Dakota State all-region shortstop Logan Moreland began play professionally this month 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 559-305 record (.647) including 168-36 (.824) vs. Summit League competition (including tournament) ... Mueller reached career win No. 550 at Stetson (3-10-17) ... 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 the 2006 and 2007 Division I Independent Coach of the Year.