•    The No. 24-ranked Washburn Ichabods wraps up the regular season after two weeks off from game competition as they travel down the turnpike to face Emporia State on April 27.
•    Washburn enters the weekend with a 36-12 overall and 17-7 in the MIAA after sweeping Missouri Southern and being swept by Pittsburg State the weekend of April 12-13.
•    The Hornets are 29-19 and 12-12 in the MIAA after defeating Rockhurst in a single game on April 23 in Kansas City.
•    The Ichabods were one of ten teams listed in the latest NCAA Central Region rankings that were released on April 17 … the first ranked line up will be released on April 25.
•    The Washburn Ichabods have already secured their 19th season with at least 30 wins and their fourth under head coach Brenda Holaday.
•    Brenda Holaday won her 600th career game as a head coach against Fort Hays State in the second game of the doubleheader … she had 351 career high school coaching wins and has 249 entering the weekend at Washburn.
•    Hitting the 30-win mark for the third-straight season is the longest streak since the Ichabods won at least 30 games in six-straight seasons from 2002-07.
•    The Ichabods finished the 2023 season with a 37-16 record going 15-11 in MIAA play.
•    Washburn was picked in the No. 4 spot in the MIAA preseason coaches poll trailing Central Oklahoma, Rogers State and Missouri Southern.
•    The 2024 Washburn schedule features seven teams who reached their NCAA Regional, two more NCAA Super Regional teams, and two teams who reached the NCAA D2 Softball World Series … Ichabods open their home slate on Feb. 23 with the Washburn Invitational.
•    Brenda Holaday is in her eighth season as the Ichabod softball head coach recording a 251-144 overall record going 113-59 in MIAA contests leading the Ichabods to two MIAA Regular Season titles (2018, 2022) and NCAA Central Regional berths in those years as well, the fourth and fifth in school history. Holaday trails Lisa Carey as the all-time winningest coach by victories at 256. •    The Ichabods are ranked seventh in the nation with 94 doubles hitting a total of seven combined against Pittsburg State and Missouri Southern … Washburn is also ranked seventh in the nation in doubles per game (1.96), 41st in hits (397), eighth in earned run average (1.63) and third in shutouts (17).
•    The Ichabods need five more doubles to tie the Washburn single season record of 99 set in 2022.
•    Individually, Sadie Walker is eighth in the nation in wins (20) and seventh in games started (26) as well as 15th in shutouts with 21st in ERA at 1.26 … Jaycee Ginter is 37th in the nation in wins (16)  … Alexis Tanguma is ninth in the nation in sac flies with five.
•    #1 Marrit Mead - Needs 19 career at bats to move into first all-time at Washburn entering final weekend of regular season with 688.
•    #2 Autymn Schreiner - Ranks 20th in career games played with 191 at Washburn.
•    #3 Hailey Neira - Has 10 multi-hit games this season.
•    #4 Molly Gilbert - Has gone 4 for 5 in five games this season.
•    #5 Ashlynn Wolff - Has scored four runs appearing in 16 games.
•    #7 Riley Stephens - Has scored four runs adding four hits in 17 games played.
•    #8 Sheyenne Cheek - Has a 1.31 ERA in 10 appearances.
•    #10 Zoe Quinn - Has six runs scored in 14 games this season.
•    #11 Rylee Moore - Has appeared in one game this season.
•    #12 Jaycee Ginter - Needs two more hits to reach 200 for her career as an Ichabod.
•    #14 Danielle Schlader - Has 11 hits and 7 RBI in 29 games this season.
•    #15 Ellington Hogle - Tied for team lead with 11 doubles.
•    #16 Erin Boles - Has reached base in 15 straight games.
•    #17 Kaylee Wagner - Batting .311 with 32 hits scoring 16 runs with nine doubles this season.
•    #18 Jaden LaBarge - Second on the team with four home runs.
•    #19 Allie Stipsits - Has scored a run in eight games played this season.
•    #20 Gracie Gallagher - Has 12 runs scored in 34 games going 4 for 5 in stolen bases.
•    #21 Sadie Walker - Leads team with a 1.27 ERA and 20 wins as well as 154 innings pitched.
•    #22 Madi Moore - Leads team with 199 putouts.
•    #23 Mariah Wheeler - Batting .338 this season with 27 hits and eight doubles.
•    #24 Alexis Tanguma - Leads the tam in MIAA play with a .438 batting average, 32 hits and six doubles.
•    #25 Kinlei Boley - Has appeared in give games adding two hits and three runs scored.
  •    Marrit Mead, who broke the Ichabod program stolen bases record earlier this year of 87 (raising her career total of 95 entering the weekend) and her 269 career hits is also tops in school history … earlier this season she broke the program record of 188 runs scored (now has 196)… she is also first in career doubles with 59.
•    Jaycee Ginter is one RBI from tying the school's all-time record of 167 entering the weekend with 166 … her 84 career wins is the most all-time at Washburn … Ginter also needs two saves to break the career mark and her 142 career appearances are now tops at Washburn breaking the record against Missouri Western … Ginter already holds the Ichabods record for career strikeouts with 779, which sits 329 more than the second-place holder.
•    With one more sac fly, Alexis Tanguma will tie the Washburn single season record with six in a year breaking Ashton Friend's season record set in 2021. (April 13, 2024) - TOPEKA, Kan. – On a steamy, windy day at Gahnstrom Field the Washburn Ichabod softball team wrapped up the home slate with a doubleheader sweep over Missouri Southern winning 8-3 and 3-0 on Saturday. 
Game 1 – WU 8, MSSU 3
After the Lions took a 3-0 lead after five innings of play, the Ichabods came back in big fashion scoring six runs in the fifth inning running through four Missouri Southern pitchers sending a total of nine batters to the plate to take a 6-3 lead. Mariah Wheeler walked on four straight pitches to start the inning and then after the first pitching change for the Lions, Autymn Schreiner drew a four pitch walk. After back-to-back wild pitches, the second scoring Gracie Gallagher scoring the Ichabods' first run of the day. Madi Moore walked sending another Lion pitcher to the circle. Hailey Neira put down a punt that loaded the bases and then Erin Boles singled moving everyone up 60 feet. On the very next pitch, Marrit Mead singled driving in a run forcing the third Lion pitcher of the inning to enter the game. Alexis Tanguma then followed with a single of her own scoring Neira and then Jaycee Ginter singled driving in two runs finishing the scoring in the inning.
Washburn added to more in the sixth after Madi Moore was hit by a pitch and then Neira walked bringing in the Lions' fifth pitcher of the game. Mead then singled loading the bases and after a wild pitch, Moore scored and a sac fly from Tanguma put the Ichabods up 8-3 after Neira scored on the play.
The Lions were able to put two on in the top of the seventh, but Sadie Walker's eighth strikeout of the game closed out the win as she improved to 20-6 overall in the circle.
Mead led the Ichabods with three of Washburn's seven hits and Tanguma and Ginter each had two RBI in the game.
Game 2 – WU 3, MSSU 0
Washburn (36-12, 17-7 MIAA) scored solo runs in the second, third and fifth innings closing out the Gahnstrom Field schedule with a 3-0 win to sweep the doubleheader.
Washburn's first run of the nightcap came on an RBI double from Erin Boles that scored Ginter from second after she reached on a walk.
In the third, Neira led off the inning with a single then Mead's single to center moved Neira to second. Neira scored on Tanguma's ground out as Washburn went up 2-0.
Washburn's final run came in the fifth when Madi Moore started things off with a single and then after a sac bunt by Neira, Washburn's all-time leader in doubles in her final at home at bat connected on her 59th career double as Mead sent Gracie Gallagher home after she entered as a pinch runner.
Ginter shut down the Lions in the seventh picking up her eighth strikeout in the process as she moved to 16-6 on the season scattering four hits in the win.
Mead had two hits in the game. EMPORIA STATE HORNETS
•    The Hornets are 29-19 this season and 12-12 in the MIAA.
•    Alexis Dial leads the team with a .432 batting average collecting 65 hits in 148 at bats while driving in 54 runs with eight home runs, 18 doubles and 37 runs scored.
•    Gracie Rabe leads the team with a 2.89 ERA going 8-9 on the season. Jordan Harrison is 8-4 and Jayda VanAckeren is 8-2.
•    ESU leads the series 91-62-1 with the Ichabods winning five of the last six in the series.
  •    is 251-144 in her eighth season as the Ichabod head softball coach.
•    in seven seasons, Washburn has had 34 all-MIAA picks, one MIAA Player of the Year, one MIAA Pitcher of the Year, two MIAA Freshmen of the year and 17 all-region selections and six All-American picks and three members of the MIAA Gold Glove team.
•    coached 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. •    The Ichabods are 1327-967-1 in their 54th year of softball.
•    The Ichabods have made five NCAA Tournament appearances (1999, 2006, 2008, 2018, 2022).
•    Washburn won the 2002, 2018 and 2022 regular season MIAA titles.