Mavs Host NW Missouri State Tuesday
Apr 10, 2006 | Softball
The Mavericks kick-off a busy week when they host a non-conference doubleheader Tuesday against Northwest Missouri State at 3 p.m. at Claussen-Westgate Field before hitting the road for a twin-bill at Wayne State Wednesday at 3 p.m. UNO will play five games in the Friday-Saturday Concordia-St. Paul Tournament.
Last Week
The Mavericks won three of four NCC games at home, splitting with Augustana, then sweeping North Dakota. UNO has now won three straight games. Leslie Svoboda batted .615 and drove in five runs to lead the offense and Cheris Kuster picked up a pair of wins, giving up just six hits in 14 innings. Head coach Jeanne Scarpello picked up her 300th career win April 7 in UNO's 3-2 victory over North Dakota.
The Records
No. 11-ranked Nebraska-Omaha is 29-5 entering this week's play overall and 5-1 in the NCC. UNO has won three straight games. Northwest Missouri State brings a 27-7 mark into Tuesday's games. Wayne State is 5-18 before playing Augustana Tuesday.
The Coach
Maverick head coach Jeanne Tostenson Scarpello enters her seventh season at UNO with a record of 301-82-1. She has led the team to five NCC titles and six straight regional tournament appearances, including the national title in 2001. Her assistants are Michala Cimino, in her ninth season, and Denise Peterson, in her seventh year. Tostenson is the second coach in UNO history to record 300 career wins. Mary Yori is the all-time leader with 459 victories from 1989-99.
Maverick Notes...
Leslie Svoboda was the NFCA and NCC Player of the Week for March 20-26. Svoboda hit home runs in six straight games, a UNO record, and has now moved up to No. 4 in single-season homers, two short of assistant coach Michala Cimino's school-record 15...Lauren McArthur became the school's all-time leader in doubles last week with 54 and is No. 3 in career homers with 26, No. 4 in career RBIs with 136 and No. 10 in career hits with 198...Cheris Kuster is No. 3 in career strikeouts with 473 and is tied for 7th in career shutouts with 19 as well as moving into No. 10 in career wins with 38...Taren Tuley is No. 8 in career strikeouts with 245...UNO is 1-0 in extra inning games...Kuster had a bid for a perfect game ended in UNO's 1-0 loss in its own tournament to Northwest Missouri State. Kuster fanned 12, including seven in a row at one point and had retired 19 straight when the Bearcats' Lindsay Stephenson hit a line drive to left field that skipped past the outfielders for an inside-the-park home run...the Mavericks' three-game losing streak from April 1-5 was their longest of the season...UNO made its first appearance of the season in the NCAA Division II rankings March 19 at No. 14 and then moved up to No. 11. The ratings, conducted by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, are released bi-weekly on Wednesdays...UNO is ranked No. 2 in the regional rankings of the NCAA Division ...Svoboda leads the NCC in batting with a .496 average, but Brooke Wagner leads the league in NCC-only gamaes, hitting .515...as a team, the Mavericks are batting over 100 points higher than anyone else in NCC games at .371...Svobda led the nation in slugging percentage at 1.030 last week and was fifth in the nation in home runs per game at 0.39...Kuster was fifth in earned run average.
Last Week
The Mavericks won three of four NCC games at home, splitting with Augustana, then sweeping North Dakota. UNO has now won three straight games. Leslie Svoboda batted .615 and drove in five runs to lead the offense and Cheris Kuster picked up a pair of wins, giving up just six hits in 14 innings. Head coach Jeanne Scarpello picked up her 300th career win April 7 in UNO's 3-2 victory over North Dakota.
The Records
No. 11-ranked Nebraska-Omaha is 29-5 entering this week's play overall and 5-1 in the NCC. UNO has won three straight games. Northwest Missouri State brings a 27-7 mark into Tuesday's games. Wayne State is 5-18 before playing Augustana Tuesday.
The Coach
Maverick head coach Jeanne Tostenson Scarpello enters her seventh season at UNO with a record of 301-82-1. She has led the team to five NCC titles and six straight regional tournament appearances, including the national title in 2001. Her assistants are Michala Cimino, in her ninth season, and Denise Peterson, in her seventh year. Tostenson is the second coach in UNO history to record 300 career wins. Mary Yori is the all-time leader with 459 victories from 1989-99.
Maverick Notes...
Leslie Svoboda was the NFCA and NCC Player of the Week for March 20-26. Svoboda hit home runs in six straight games, a UNO record, and has now moved up to No. 4 in single-season homers, two short of assistant coach Michala Cimino's school-record 15...Lauren McArthur became the school's all-time leader in doubles last week with 54 and is No. 3 in career homers with 26, No. 4 in career RBIs with 136 and No. 10 in career hits with 198...Cheris Kuster is No. 3 in career strikeouts with 473 and is tied for 7th in career shutouts with 19 as well as moving into No. 10 in career wins with 38...Taren Tuley is No. 8 in career strikeouts with 245...UNO is 1-0 in extra inning games...Kuster had a bid for a perfect game ended in UNO's 1-0 loss in its own tournament to Northwest Missouri State. Kuster fanned 12, including seven in a row at one point and had retired 19 straight when the Bearcats' Lindsay Stephenson hit a line drive to left field that skipped past the outfielders for an inside-the-park home run...the Mavericks' three-game losing streak from April 1-5 was their longest of the season...UNO made its first appearance of the season in the NCAA Division II rankings March 19 at No. 14 and then moved up to No. 11. The ratings, conducted by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, are released bi-weekly on Wednesdays...UNO is ranked No. 2 in the regional rankings of the NCAA Division ...Svoboda leads the NCC in batting with a .496 average, but Brooke Wagner leads the league in NCC-only gamaes, hitting .515...as a team, the Mavericks are batting over 100 points higher than anyone else in NCC games at .371...Svobda led the nation in slugging percentage at 1.030 last week and was fifth in the nation in home runs per game at 0.39...Kuster was fifth in earned run average.
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