•    The Washburn Ichabods will start the postseason as the No. 4 seed in the MIAA Championship Tournament starting on Thursday in Edmond, Okla., where they will face the No. 5-seeded Northwest Missouri Bearcats at 1:30 p.m.
•    Washburn enters the postseason with a 36-14 overall and 17-9 in the MIAA after falling in a pair of games at Emporia State wrapping up the regular season on Monday.
•    The top ten teams from the 2024 MIAA regular season advance to the Association's postseason championship for a four-day, nine-game, single-elimination tournament. The first pitch is scheduled for Wednesday, May 1 at Central Oklahoma's Gerry Pinkston Stadium.
•    The winner of the Washburn/Northwest Missouri game will face the winner of the top-seeded Rogers State/No. 8 Central Missouri vs No. 9 Missouri Southern winner. The Jennies and the Lions will play the first game of the tournament on May 1 with that winner advancing to face the Hillcats. The semifinals are scheduled for May 3 and the championship game is slated for noon on May 4.
•    The Ichabods have won the last three games overall and moved their winning streak to six in a row in games played in Topeka after sweeping the Bearcats earlier this year winning 3-1 and 6-0 on March 29. Washburn leads the all-time series 61-37.
•    The Washburn Ichabods have already secured their 19th season with at least 30 wins and their fourth under head coach Brenda Holaday.
•    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 251-146 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 12th in the nation with 95 doubles … Washburn is also ranked 10th in the nation in doubles per game (1.90), 41st in hits (397), 11th in earned run average (1.78) and third in shutouts (17).
•    The Ichabods need four more doubles to tie the Washburn single season record of 99 set in 2022.
•    Individually, Sadie Walker is 18th in the nation in wins and leading the MIAA with 20 wins … she is  12th in games started (27) and 18th in shutouts (7) and 38th in ERA at 1.44 … Alexis Tanguma is 13th in the nation in sac flies with five.
•    #1 Marrit Mead - Hit her first home run of the season against Emporia State on Monday tying the game at 4-4 in the halted game at ESU … a career .500 batter against Northwest Missouri going 13 for 26 with two doubles and five stolen bases scoring six runs.
•    #2 Autymn Schreiner - Has started 184 of 193 career games as an Ichabod scoring 104 runs with 129 hits.
•    #3 Hailey Neira - Has 10 multi-hit games this season and has reached base in four-straight games.
•    #4 Molly Gilbert - Has gone 4 for 5 in five games this season.
•    #5 Ashlynn Wolff - Has scored five runs appearing in 17 games.
•    #7 Riley Stephens - Has scored four runs adding four hits in 17 games played.
•    #8 Sheyenne Cheek - Has a 1.24 ERA in 12 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 - Became the 12th Ichabod to reach at least 200 hits in her career … a career .318 batter against Northwest Missouri with 12 RBI and two home runs in eight games.
•    #14 Danielle Schlader - Has 11 hits and 7 RBI in 31 games this season.
•    #15 Ellington Hogle - Tied for team lead with 11 doubles.
•    #16 Erin Boles - Has seven multi-hit games this season and four multi-RBI games this year.
•    #17 Kaylee Wagner - Batting .299 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 35 games going 5 for 6 in stolen bases.
•    #21 Sadie Walker - Is 2-0 in the circle against Northwest Missouri with a 1.75 ERA in two appearances and starts.
•    #22 Madi Moore - Three for 6 in her career against the Bearcats with an RBI and run scored.
•    #23 Mariah Wheeler - Batting .345 this season with 30 hits and eight doubles.
•    #24 Alexis Tanguma - Hit .571 in two games against the Bearcats in the first meeting going 4 for 7 with a run scored.
•    #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 270 career hits is also tops in school history … earlier this season she broke the program record of 188 runs scored (now has 197)… she is also first in career doubles with 59 … needs 11 career at bats for school record of 706.
•    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 143 career pitching appearances are tops at Washburn breaking the record against Missouri Western earlier this season … Ginter already holds the Ichabods record for career strikeouts with 785, which sits 335 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 … Autymn Schreiner has four sac flies this season.
•    The Ichabods' .391 batting average this season is the second-best on the Ichabod single-season chart trailing the 2022's team batting average of .394.
•    The Ichabods' 95 doubles this season is second on the Ichabod team charts trailing the 2022's team total of 99.
•    Washburn has drawn 147 walks this season, which is second on the single-season chart behind the 2022 team total of 153.
•    The 18 sac flies by the Ichabods this season is tied for the most in a season by an Ichabod team with the 2021 squad. Washburn is … 13-3 in neutral site games …5-5 in one-run games and 5-2 in two-run games and 19-2 in games decided by more than five runs … 20-2 when scoring in the first inning and 30-4 when scoring first in games … 28-3 when leading after four innings, 18-1 when leading after five innings and 21-0 when leading after six innings and undefeated when outscoring its opponents … is 32-4 when outhitting its opponent … 23-0 when scoring at least five runs … outscoring its opponents 58-12 in the first inning, 49-17 in the third inning, 56-7 in the fourth inning and 1-0 in the ninth inning … 17-4 in games that have a shutout.
  •    The Ichabods are making their 28th MIAA Tournament appearance and have compiled a 38-54 record in the MIAA Tournament dating back to the 1991 season when Washburn was first eligible for the event.
•    Washburn was 1-2 in last season's MIAA Championship Tournament held at Lake Shawnee.
Against the MIAA Schools in the postseason tournament.
Central Missouri • The Ichabods are 6-9 against the Jennies falling 5-2 in the 2024 tournament opener.
Central Oklahoma • The Ichabods are 0-1 against the Bronchos losing the last meeting on April 30, 2015 in Overland Park.
Emporia State • The Ichabods trail the ESU in tournament match ups 10-3. Washburn opened the 2022 MIAA Tournament with a win over the Hornets in a 8-0 victory in five innings.
Fort Hays State • The Ichabods are 1-1 winning 3-1 in the 2024 match up …the only other meeting was a 5-3 loss on May 7, 2011.
Lincoln • The Ichabods are 3-0 against the Blue Tigers.
Missouri Southern • The Lions lead the conference tournament match ups 6-2 including a 3-2 win last season that eliminated the Ichabods from the tournament.
Missouri Western • The Ichabods are 4-9 against the Griffons in MIAA Tournament meetings winning both meetings in the 2022 Tournament.
Northeastern State • Washburn is 0-1 against the RiverHawks.
Northwest Missouri • Washburn is 3-2 against the Bearcats winning the last meeting on May 6, 2011 with a walk-off grand slam in a 4-0 win.
Pittsburg State • The Ichabods have played the Gorillas the most in the tournament, 10 times with the series tied 5-5. The Ichabods last played the Gorillas in the opening round of the 2015 tournament.
Rogers State • The Ichabods are 0-2 against Rogers State falling on May 7, 2022 in a 2-1 loss and the following day in the MIAA Championship game in a 4-2 loss in nine innings. (April 29, 2024) - EMPORIA, Kan. – The Washburn Ichabods fell 5-4 in the resumption of a halted game at Emporia State in eight innings as they wrapped up the regular season with a 36-14 record going 17-9 in the MIAA.
The game with ESU was resumed from the bottom of the sixth inning with the Hornets holding a 4-3 lead. Ichabod pitcher Jaycee Ginter needed only six pitches to set the Hornets down. Leading off the top of the seventh, Marrit Mead tied the score at 4-4 with a home run to left field. Again Ginter retired the Hornets in order in the bottom of the seventh sending the game to the eighth.
In the eighth, Jaden LaBarge started the inning with a double and then moved to third on a sac bunt from Erin Boles. After Madi Moore drew a walk putting runners on first and second with one out, Moore was thrown out stealing second base and then LaBarge was cutdown at the plate ending the Ichabod threat.
The Hornets scored the go-ahead with two outs in the inning with a single ending the game with a 5-4 win.
Starting the game on Saturday, the Hornets took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first and in the second inning, Boles drove in a run and then sac fly by Moore pushed Washburn's lead to 2-1.
In the third, Autymn Schreiner's single scored LaBarge as the lead increased the lead to 3-1. The Hornets came back with three runs taking a 4-3 lead before the rains came.
LaBarge finished with three of Washburn's 10 hits in the game while Boles and Schreiner each had two. Ginter struck out six in the loss falling to 16-7 on the season. NORTHWEST MISSOURI
•    The Bearcats are the No. 5 seed this season 28-24 going 15-11 in the MIAA this season.
•    Head coach Naomi Tellez's team is batting .298 this season.
•    Lillie Filger leads the squad and ranks No. 3 in the MIAA with a .439 batting average. Filger leads the Bearcats with 79 hits, 38 runs scored and 92 total bases. Filger ranks No. 2 in the MIAA in hits (79).
•    Sophomore pitcher Jadyn Streigle is 10-9 on the season with a 2.33 earned run average.
•    The Ichabods have won the last three games overall and moved their winning streak to six in a row in games played in Topeka after sweeping the Bearcats earlier this year winning 3-1 and 6-0 on March 29. Washburn leads the all-time series 61-37.
  •    is 251-146 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 1327-969-1 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.