•The Washburn Ichabod softball team returns to action after going a perfect 5-0 at the Washburn Invitational last weekend in Topeka.
•The Ichabods are 7-2 this season and riding a six-game winning streak heading to Emporia State.
•Washburn's Reagen Hamm was named the MIAA Pitcher of the Week after going 4-0 with 1.54 ERA in five appearances with 20 strikeouts in 22 2/3 innings pitched with two complete games and a complete game shutout.
•Washburn's six-game winning streak is the longest since the Ichabods won seven in a row from April 4, 2018 to April 12, 2018 en route to the MIAA Regular Season Championship.
•The Ichabods have three players returning who earned all-MIAA honors in 2019 (all-MIAA teams were not picked after the 2020 season) in junior pitcher Raegen Hamm, senior outfielder Brianna Fuchs and sophomore pitcher Bailey Zuniga. Hamm was a second team all-MIAA selections while Fuchs and Zuniga were tabbed as honorable mention picks.
•The Washburn Ichabod softball team was picked fifth in the 2021 MIAA Preseason Coaches Poll released prior to the start of the season by the conference office.
 
 Last time the Ichabods were in action
•The Ichabods were 5-0 last weekend at the Washburn Invitational.
•Marrit Mead led Washburn with a .588 batting average with 10 hits in 17 at bats while scoring six runs with 4 RBI.
•Ashton Friend drove in eight runs over the weekend with 6 hits and scoring three runs hitting a home run.
•Jaycee Ginter hit .545 with six hits and 4 RBI hitting her first collegiate home run while also going 1-0 with a 2.03 ERA in the circle.
•Raegen Hamm was 4-0 with 1.54 ERA in five appearances with 20 strikeouts in 22 2/3 innings pitched with two complete games and a complete game shutout.
 
 BODS and ENDS
•Marrit Mead leads the Ichabods with seven multi-hit games.
•Ashton Friend, Bri Francis and Cailey Oldemeyer each have 2 multi-RBI games.
•Marrit Mead also has a seven game hitting streak entering the weekend.
•Marrit Mead has reached base in seven straight games and Maddie Stipsits has reached base in six straight.
•Maddie Stipsits is 2 of 2 as a pinch hitter this season.
 
 Opponent quick scout . . .
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST
•The Bearcats are 0-4 this season opening the season last weekend at the Drury Invitational.
•The Ichabods lead the all-time series with the former MIAA member 53-11 and have won the last five meetings.
 
MINNESOTA STATE
•The Mavericks are 3-1 this season and received votes in the latest NFCA top 25 poll.
•The Ichabods lead the series 11-10.
 
MINNESOTA STATE MOORHEAD
•The Dragons are 2-0 after sweeping a doubleheader from Bemidji State on March 2.
•The Ichabods and Dragons have never faced each other.
 
WAYNE STATE
•The Wildcats are 1-5 after opening the season last weekend at the Washburn Invitational.
•The Ichabods lead the series 21-12 and have won the last two.
 
QUINCY
•The Hawks are 3-5 this season entering the weekend on a two-game winning streak.
•The Ichabods lead the series 2-1 and the teams have not played since 1993.
 
 Head coach Brenda Holaday . . .
•is 112-85 in her fifth season as the Ichabod head softball coach.
•coached the previous 19 seasons at Washburn Rural High School in Topeka compiling a 351-93 record.
•led the Junior Blues to three 6A state championships as well as winning 14 league championships earning 16 6A state tournament berths, five second-place state finishes and three third-place state finishes and was inducted into the Washburn Rural High School Hall of Fame in 2018.
•was named the Centennial League Coach of the Year and City Coach of the Year nine different times earning the Midwest Sectional Coach of the Year in 2011 and the 6A Kansas Coach of the year two times in 2008 and 2011 and was named the overall Kansas Coach of the Year in 2011.
•while at Washburn Rural, she coached more than 40 players who have gone on to play college softball including three at the NCAA Division I level including former Ichabod head softball coach Lisa Carey, the winningest coach by wins in program history.
 
 Washburn Ichabod softball history . . .
•The Ichabods are 1172-916-1 in their 52nd year of softball.
•The Ichabods have made four NCAA Tournament appearances (1999, 2006, 2008, 2018).
•Washburn won the 2002 and 2018 regular season MIAA titles.
 
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