•  The Washburn Ichabod softball team fresh off a 2-3 trip to West Palm Beach, Fla., will travel north to compete in the Winona State Warrior Dome Tournament with four games against three opponents starting Feb. 19.
•  All games will take place in Rochester, Minn.
•  The Ichabods will start and finish the event with Northern State and take on host squad Winona State on Feb. 19 and Upper Iowa the following day.
 •  After the first five games of the season, the Ichabods are led by a pair of freshmen who are both hitting above .400.
•  Freshman Ashley Ruder leads the Ichabods with a .600 batting average after going 9 for 15 with two runs scored with a double and 3 RBI.
•  Freshman Erin Keeney was 7 for 15 with a double and 2 RBI with a .467 batting average.
•  Both Ruder and Keeney lead the Ichabods with three multi-hit games and Ruder is one of two Ichabods to have a multi-RBI game joining Cassidy Merriman.
•  Ruder will also be carrying a team-best five game hitting streak to Minnesota.
•  Junior Megan Stegman his hitting .385 with five hits and two runs scored.
•  Senior Marina Quimby is third on the team with six hits in 18 at bats and a double with three runs scored.
•  Sophomore Cassidy Merriman leads the team with 4 RBI.
•  Senior Taylor Zimmerman has the only home run for the Ichabods so far this spring.
•  Junior pitcher Samantha Carson was 1-1 with a 3.20 earned run average in 15 1/3 innings pitched allowing seven earned runs.
•  Freshman pitcher Ashley Wills was 1-2 with two complete games in 18 1/3 innings pitched with 14 strikeouts.
•  Both Ruder and Zimmerman have reached base in all five games.
 Northern State
•  Northern State has not played any games yet this fall.
•  They were 32-22 last season reaching the NSIC Tournament.
•  The Ichabods lead the all-time series 3-1.
•  Washburn won the last meeting on March 20, 2015 in a 10-1.

Upper Iowa
•  The Peacocks are 3-1 this season.
•  They finished the 2015 season
•  The Ichabods lead the series 5-1 and have won the last three including a doubleheader sweep over  Upper Iowa on March 9, 2015 in Topeka in a 4-0 and a 9-1 win.

Winona State
•  The Ichabods are 1-1 all-time against Winona State.
•  The Warriors were ranked No. 10 in the NFCA Preseason Poll.
•  WSU has not played any games this season.
•  In 2015 the Warriors were 46-14 going 24-5 in the NSIC reaching the NCAA Regionals.
 Haylee Marsteller needs one more hits to reach 100 for her career … Marina Quimby needs 13 runs for 150 and needs 10 more hits to reach 150 …  as a program, the Ichabods need four wins to reach 1,100.
 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Washburn Ichabod softball team scored six runs in the its final two at bats for a come-from-behind 9-8 win over Lynn in the final day of the Sailfish Showdown.
After tying the score in the bottom of the first after Lynn's first at bat, Cassidy Merriman drove in Marina Quimby on a sac fly. Lynn took the lead at 2-1 in the top of the third before Washburn regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth at 3-2 on a solo home run by Taylor Zimmerman leading off the inning  and then Haylee Marsteller would score in the inning with the second run of the frame.
Lynn rallied with six runs in the top of the fifth inning taking an 8-3 lead before Washburn responded with four runs in the sixth inning after singles by Marsteller, Megan Stegman, Quimby, Ashley Ruder and Merriman. After a scoreless top of the seventh, Marsteller led off the inning with a walk and then moved to second on a base hit by Lacie Myers. After a single to center by pinch hitter Sierra Kemp which scored pinch runner Berkley White, Stegman recorded a single and then Quimby picked up the walk off single scoring White with the winning run.
Samantha Carson picked up the win in relief of Ashley Wills, who struck out four in 4 2/3 innings. Carson (1-1) struck out two.
 • was named the Washburn Ichabod head softball coach on Aug. 3, 2011 after spending four seasons at Metro State in Denver, Colo., with the final season coming as the head coach.
• is 81-107 in her fifth season on the bench at Washburn and overall Becerra has recorded a 115-125 mark in her sixth year as a head coach.
• in her lone season as the head coach at Metro State, Becerra led the Roadrunners the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular season championship while advancing to the NCAA regional tournament for the third-straight season finishing with a 34-18 record.
• has coached 20 Ichabods to all-MIAA honors.
• has had 54 Ichabods named to the MIAA's Academic Honor Roll.
 • The Ichabods are 1096-814-1 in their 47th year of softball.
• The Ichabods have made three NCAA Tournament appearances (1999, 2006, 2008).
• Washburn won the 2002 regular season MIAA title.
 •  The Ichabods will open MIAA play on March 4 when they will face Lincoln in Jefferson City before taking on Lindenwood on the road in St. Charles, Mo. the following day. After a two more MIAA games with Emporia State on March 11, the Ichabods will host the Hornets in non-conference action on March 12 in Topeka in its home openers before returning to MIAA play against Northeastern State at the Washburn Softball Complex.