Mavs Meet Iowa State, South Dakota State This Week
Apr 15, 2014 | Softball
The Omaha softball team finishes its eight-game road stretch with four more road games this week. On Wednesday, UNO visits Ames, Iowa for a 4 p.m. matchup with Iowa State. The Mavericks head to Brookings, S.D., this weekend for a three-game series at South Dakota State. It begins with a Friday doubleheader at 2 p.m. and ends with a Saturday Noon game. Live stats will be available for all games at OMavs.com. A live webcast will be available for purchase at OMavs.com for Wednesday's game at Iowa State. A live audio feed will be provided by South Dakota State for the weekend series.
The Mavericks
• Amber Lutmer leads the Summit League and ranks tied for 11th nationally with 14 home runs and has a team-high 38 RBI. Lutmer is second on the team with a .343 batting average. She is the school-record holder for career homers (48) and is 22 RBI away from tying the career school mark of 167. Lutmer's 48 career homers rank seventh among active Division I players.
• The top three home run hitters in the Summit League are all Mavericks. In addition to Lutmer's 14 homers, Campbell Ditto has 10 and Allie Mathewson has eight. The Mavs lead the league with 40 home runs this season.
• Mathewson hits a team-best .354 to go with her eight homers, 32 runs and 22 RBI. She has nine doubles and two triples for a team-high 19 extra-base hits. Mathewson's career .706 slugging percentage entering the week ranks 26th among active DI players. Sydney Hames is hitting .325 with one homer, eight doubles and 24 RBI. Ditto hits .304 with 10 homers, 30 RBI and 29 runs.
• Dana Elsasser is 18-7 this season with a 2.08 ERA. Her 18 victories rank tied for 17th nationally and are tied for the Summit League lead. Elsasser has seven shutouts and an opponent batting average of .195 this season. Elsasser's career 1.42 ERA entering this week ranks fourth among active DI players and her 62 wins rank 28th. Elsasser's 31 career shutouts are tied for eighth-most among active DI players.
• Kat Barrow has the most starts of anyone other than Elsasser, starting nine games in the circle with a 1-6 record and 4.88 ERA. Freshman Cheyenne Baxter (2-0, 4.69 ERA) is coming off a strong weekend in which she pitched 12.1 total innings with just three earned runs, and she picked up the win in her start in game three of the series.
Series History
Iowa State leads the all-time series with UNO, 7-2, though the teams have not played since 1983, when UNO was Division II. The Mavericks are 73-13-1 all-time against South Dakota State. UNO swept the three-game series in Omaha last season.
Up Next
Omaha returns home to host North Dakota in a non-league doubleheader at 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
Scouting Iowa State
Iowa State enters a doubleheader on Tuesday against North Dakota with an 18-21 overall record and 1-8 mark in Big 12 play. Brittany Gomez leads the Cyclones with a .420 batting average and has scored 26 runs. Ali Cappaert hits .360 with a team-high nine home runs and 27 RBI. Lexi Slater adds a .345 average with seven homers and 27 RBI. Katie Johnson has started 31 of ISU's 39 games and is 17-15 with a 3.90 ERA. ISU has lost six in a row entering Tuesday's doubleheader and is 2-14 in its last 16 games dating back to March 15.
Scouting South Dakota State
South Dakota State is 7-26 overall and 2-7 in the Summit League, and the Jackrabbits also play a doubleheader against North Dakota (on Wednesday) before meeting the Mavericks this weekend. SDSU has lost eight in a row entering the games against UND. The Jackrabbits are led by Elyse Eitel's .321 batting average, two home runs and 15 RBI. Sammy Bingham hits .305 with a team-high 16 runs scored and has three triples. Devan Larsen has three homers and 17 RBI and hits .200. Of her 14 hits this season, nine have gone for extra bases. Ashlyn Bender and Jennifer Sutton each have 13 starts in the circle. Bender is 4-8 with a 6.62 ERA, while Sutton is 3-11 with a 7.10 ERA. Katie Lang is 0-7 with a 6.56 ERA.
Last Time Out
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Cheyenne Baxter picked up her second career win in her second career start, and Campbell Ditto hit a grand slam in the third inning to lift the Omaha softball team (22-15, 4-5 Summit League) past Fort Wayne (29-12, 8-3 Summit League) on Saturday. Baxter (2-0) made just her second start of the season after earning the nod by throwing 6.0 shutout innings of relief on Friday. The freshman threw 6.1 innings on Saturday and held the Mastodons to three runs on seven hits with six walks and four strikeouts. Kat Barrow finished out the final 0.2 innings for the save without allowing a base runner after IPFW scored two of its three runs in the bottom of the seventh. Offensively, the Mavs finally got to IPFW pitchers Megan Flenniken and Miranda Kramer. UNO dinged Flenniken for three runs on three hits through 2.0 innings, then notched three runs and five hits off Kramer over the final 5.0 innings. Ditto led the way with a 3-for-4 day and five RBI, including a third-inning grand slam that put Omaha up 4-0. She added an RBI single in the seventh to extend the lead to 6-1. That came after Sydney Hames had singled home Allie Mathewson for a 5-1 cushion in the seventh. Mathewson was 2-for-4 with two runs, and Amber Lutmer scored a pair of runs. Tara Trede went 2-for-3 with a run as the Mavs avoided a series sweep in the finale for the second straight weekend.
The Mavericks
• Amber Lutmer leads the Summit League and ranks tied for 11th nationally with 14 home runs and has a team-high 38 RBI. Lutmer is second on the team with a .343 batting average. She is the school-record holder for career homers (48) and is 22 RBI away from tying the career school mark of 167. Lutmer's 48 career homers rank seventh among active Division I players.
• The top three home run hitters in the Summit League are all Mavericks. In addition to Lutmer's 14 homers, Campbell Ditto has 10 and Allie Mathewson has eight. The Mavs lead the league with 40 home runs this season.
• Mathewson hits a team-best .354 to go with her eight homers, 32 runs and 22 RBI. She has nine doubles and two triples for a team-high 19 extra-base hits. Mathewson's career .706 slugging percentage entering the week ranks 26th among active DI players. Sydney Hames is hitting .325 with one homer, eight doubles and 24 RBI. Ditto hits .304 with 10 homers, 30 RBI and 29 runs.
• Dana Elsasser is 18-7 this season with a 2.08 ERA. Her 18 victories rank tied for 17th nationally and are tied for the Summit League lead. Elsasser has seven shutouts and an opponent batting average of .195 this season. Elsasser's career 1.42 ERA entering this week ranks fourth among active DI players and her 62 wins rank 28th. Elsasser's 31 career shutouts are tied for eighth-most among active DI players.
• Kat Barrow has the most starts of anyone other than Elsasser, starting nine games in the circle with a 1-6 record and 4.88 ERA. Freshman Cheyenne Baxter (2-0, 4.69 ERA) is coming off a strong weekend in which she pitched 12.1 total innings with just three earned runs, and she picked up the win in her start in game three of the series.
Series History
Iowa State leads the all-time series with UNO, 7-2, though the teams have not played since 1983, when UNO was Division II. The Mavericks are 73-13-1 all-time against South Dakota State. UNO swept the three-game series in Omaha last season.
Up Next
Omaha returns home to host North Dakota in a non-league doubleheader at 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
Scouting Iowa State
Iowa State enters a doubleheader on Tuesday against North Dakota with an 18-21 overall record and 1-8 mark in Big 12 play. Brittany Gomez leads the Cyclones with a .420 batting average and has scored 26 runs. Ali Cappaert hits .360 with a team-high nine home runs and 27 RBI. Lexi Slater adds a .345 average with seven homers and 27 RBI. Katie Johnson has started 31 of ISU's 39 games and is 17-15 with a 3.90 ERA. ISU has lost six in a row entering Tuesday's doubleheader and is 2-14 in its last 16 games dating back to March 15.
Scouting South Dakota State
South Dakota State is 7-26 overall and 2-7 in the Summit League, and the Jackrabbits also play a doubleheader against North Dakota (on Wednesday) before meeting the Mavericks this weekend. SDSU has lost eight in a row entering the games against UND. The Jackrabbits are led by Elyse Eitel's .321 batting average, two home runs and 15 RBI. Sammy Bingham hits .305 with a team-high 16 runs scored and has three triples. Devan Larsen has three homers and 17 RBI and hits .200. Of her 14 hits this season, nine have gone for extra bases. Ashlyn Bender and Jennifer Sutton each have 13 starts in the circle. Bender is 4-8 with a 6.62 ERA, while Sutton is 3-11 with a 7.10 ERA. Katie Lang is 0-7 with a 6.56 ERA.
Last Time Out
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Cheyenne Baxter picked up her second career win in her second career start, and Campbell Ditto hit a grand slam in the third inning to lift the Omaha softball team (22-15, 4-5 Summit League) past Fort Wayne (29-12, 8-3 Summit League) on Saturday. Baxter (2-0) made just her second start of the season after earning the nod by throwing 6.0 shutout innings of relief on Friday. The freshman threw 6.1 innings on Saturday and held the Mastodons to three runs on seven hits with six walks and four strikeouts. Kat Barrow finished out the final 0.2 innings for the save without allowing a base runner after IPFW scored two of its three runs in the bottom of the seventh. Offensively, the Mavs finally got to IPFW pitchers Megan Flenniken and Miranda Kramer. UNO dinged Flenniken for three runs on three hits through 2.0 innings, then notched three runs and five hits off Kramer over the final 5.0 innings. Ditto led the way with a 3-for-4 day and five RBI, including a third-inning grand slam that put Omaha up 4-0. She added an RBI single in the seventh to extend the lead to 6-1. That came after Sydney Hames had singled home Allie Mathewson for a 5-1 cushion in the seventh. Mathewson was 2-for-4 with two runs, and Amber Lutmer scored a pair of runs. Tara Trede went 2-for-3 with a run as the Mavs avoided a series sweep in the finale for the second straight weekend.
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