NDSU Hosts IUPUI in Summit League Series, Home Opener at the Ellig on April 8-9

Saturday, April 8

Fargo, N.D.

12 p.m.

North Dakota State

IUPUI

Photo by: Paul Dye

NDSU Hosts IUPUI in Summit League Series, Home Opener at the Ellig on April 8-9

4/5/2017 3:05:00 PM | Softball

NDSU Softball Release.pdf

Saturday, April 8
BISON vs IUPUI, 12 p.m. Live Stats I Live Video (PPV)
BISON vs IUPUI, 2:30 p.m. Live Stats I Live Video (PPV)
Sunday, April 9
BISON vs IUPUI, 11 a.m. Live Stats I Live Audio / Bison 1660 AM - 92.7 FM I Live Video (PPV)

North Dakota State (3-0 SL, 15-21) is scheduled host IUPUI (3-0 SL, 13-20) in a Summit League three-game series on April 8-9 at the Ellig Sports Complex ... It is the 2017 home opener for the Bison ... NDSU and IUPUI play a noon doubleheader Saturday, April 8, and close out the series with an 11 a.m. single-game Sunday, April 9 ... Sunday's game will be broadcast by Bison 1660 AM - 92.7 FM with Keith Brake handling the call ... ... The Bison are playing their first game at home, the Jaguars are 2-6 on the road.

The Series
This will be the 28th meeting between North Dakota State and IUPUI ... The Bison lead the series 24-3 ... NDSU won all four meetings against the Jaguars last season, a three-game series at Indianapolis, and the 10-1 win in the Summit League championship game in Fargo.

Quickly Around the Horn
North Dakota State sophomore Vanessa Anderson #ThePunisher tied the school record with two home runs at Fort Wayne (4-2-17) ... She became the 15th Bison player to tie the record ... The record has been achieved 26 times ... Anderson has reached base in 11 straight games ... Anderson has hit seven 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) ... Video highlight of catcher Tabby Heinz' #Toby 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 ... Heinz has thrown out 12 of 31 baserunners attempting to steal this season ... In NCAA statistics (April 3), individually, Jacquelyn Sertic #TheScientist is No.2 in strikeouts (210) and No. 39 in strikeouts per 7 innings (8.4 avg.) ... Junior right fielder Bre Beatty #FreeBird, sophomore second baseman Zoe Stavrou #ZOWIE and freshman left fielder Stephanie Soriano lead the Bison with eight multi-hit games ... Stavrou tops NDSU with seven multi-RBI games ... Bre Beatty leads NDSU with nine two-out RBI, Montana DeCamp is next with eight ... Collectively, the Bison are batting .222 with a 3.14 earned run average and are fielding at .962 ... NDSU opponents are batting .256 with an 2.44 ERA and are fielding at .964 ... The Bison are averaging 3.08 runs scored per game, while opponents are averaging 3.81 ... The big inning is the sixth for NDSU with 22 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 30 straight Summit League regular season games and 36 in a row including the past two Summit League postseason tournaments ... Last Summit League loss was against South Dakota (G2, 4-3-15).

NDSU-Georgia Tech Marathon Produces Records
North Dakota State freshman left fielder Stephanie Soriano 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)

Zowie, The Punisher Tie Single-Game Home Run Record
North Dakota State sophomore Vanessa Anderson #ThePunisher tied the school record with two home runs at Fort Wayne (4-2-17) ... She became the 15th Bison player to tie the record ... The record has been achieved 26 times ... 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.

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 eight times this season and 14 times in her career ... Sertic has compiled a 44-27 record 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 (7.33 avg.), strikeouts (503), and batters faced (2047), 7th in saves (3), 8th in appearances (95), 9th in wins (46), innings pitched (480.2), complete games (55) and shutouts (12), and 10th in opponent batting avg. (231) and games started (72) ... Junior third baseman Julia Luciano is tied for 8th in times hit by pitch (9).

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 to Play Professionally in Italy
Former North Dakota State all-region shortstop Logan Moreland will begin 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 557-303 record (.648) including 167-34 (.831) 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.