GAMEDAY COVERAGE: LIVE STATS || UPDATED SOFTBALL RECORD BOOK
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Concordia-St. Paul head softball coach
Bob Bartel has announced that this week's doubleheader at Southwest Minnesota State has been moved to Thursday with a noon start time against the Mustangs in Marshall, Minn.
The games were originally scheduled for Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Marshall.
Concordia is 25-11 overall and 12-6 in the NSIC in seventh place. SMSU is 14-20 overall and 7-15 in the NSIC in 13th. Six games remain on the conference regular season schedule, with the top-10 teams in the final standings reaching the NSIC Tournament in Rochester, Minn.
BARTEL ONE SHY OF 300 CAREER WINS
Concordia head coach
Bob Bartel is just one win shy of joining the 300-club. He's 299-180 in his ninth year as Golden Bear head softball coach.
AVERAGE, ON-BASE and SLUGGING CAREER NOTES
Concordia has a number of individuals climbing the record list in the softball program. Offensively,
Alicia Meiser and
Brynn Larsen's current .382 and .381 career averages (respectively) would be high enough to set program records, ahead of
Erin Tjornhom's .374 mark set last year. They are also 1-2 in career OBP, with Meiser leading at .450 with Larsen at .425 just ahead of Tjornhom's record .424. Larsen's career .553 slugging percentage trails only Tjornhom's .582 mark.
AVERAGE, ON-BASE and SLUGGING SEASON NOTES
This year, Larsen's .431 average (44-102) trails only Carr Rindal's 1992 mark of .443 (47-106) and is ahead of her previous season-high of .427 which is the second-best mark in school history. Meiser's .384 average (43-112) is just outside of the top-10 for a season. Larsen's .474 OBP trails Rindal (.500) while Meiser is not far behind at .452 which would be fifth if the season ended today. Larsen's .716 slugging percentage is the third highest season total, trailing Sami Mattson (.763 in 2011) and Kelli Strehlo (.746 in 1998) while
Missie Feuerbach is just outside the top-10 at .540.
SPEED KILLS
Meiser's 32 stolen bases are already tied with her mark from last year for the second most in school history and also rank eighth in the nation with 0.89 steals per game. In just two seasons, Meiser has swiped 64 bases which is the third most in a career. She has a ways to go to catch second place, as Natalie Mast had 101 steals from 2006-09 and
Katie Anderson holds the record of 108 (2009-12). Mast holds the single-season record of 43 set in 2008.
DOUBLE DOWN
While the Golden Bears won't be setting any home run records this week, the sluggers are led by doubles hitters
Missie Feuerbach and
Brynn Larsen. The pair, who bat back-to-back in the order, each have 12 doubles this year which is tied for the 10th most in a season already with plenty of games remaining on the schedule. But they are eight off Amanda Yurek's record 20 set in 2006.
MORE CAREER OFFENSIVE NOTES
Brynn Larsen ranks third in career triples (10), seventh in runs (99) and eighth in stolen bases (30).
Missie Feuerbach ranks seventh in doubles (32), sixth in home runs (18) and 10th in RBI (91).
KLUEVER'S SHUTOUTS & STRIKEOUTS
Senior
Ashley Kluever ranks third in the country with 10 shutouts on the season, adding two more to her season ledger last weekend on the same day at Wayne State. She also ranks 17th in the nation in strikeouts per seven innings (8.48), which is the second highest rate in program history trailing only Kristen Schmidt's 2006 campaign (8.84). Kluever holds hitters to a .207 season average, which would rank as the seventh lowest in program history for a season and her 16-6 record has produced the ninth-most wins in a season and her 10 shutouts are second in a single season.
Kluever is second in school history in wins with a 67-35 record, fourth in career opponent average (.242), second in strikeouts per seven innings (6.11), second in strikeouts (558) and second in innings pitched (639.2) in her four years.
SERIES HISTORY: CU 16, SMSU 20
Concordia is 16-20 all-time against SMSU and 7-7 against the Mustangs on the road … the teams split last season's doubleheader in Marshall and Concordia is 6-4 in the last 10 games against SMSU … Concordia is 11-16 against SMSU in conference games
