• Thanks to Mother Nature, the Washburn Ichabod softball schedule has been reduced from a five-game weekend to a two-game trip in Oklahoma.
• The Ichabods were slated to face Southern Arkansas, Oklahoma Baptist, Southern Nazarene, Rockhurst and Southwestern Oklahoma State but will now take on Arkansas Tech at 11 a.m. in Edmond, Okla. on Central Oklahoma's campus and their game with Oklahoma Baptist has been shifted to Firelake Ball Fields at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 14.
• The Ichabods were 2-2 last weekend with wins over Southeastern Oklahoma State and Illinois Springfield improving to 5-4 on the season.
• Washburn is coming off their sixth NCAA appearance in program history last season finishing the year with a 37-17 record placing fourth in the MIAA standings with a 17-9 record.
• The Washburn Ichabods have recorded 19 seasons with at least 30 wins with five coming under head coach Brenda  Holaday.
• The Ichabods were tabbed No. 4 in the MIAA Preseason Coaches Poll.
• Brenda Holaday is in her ninth season as the Ichabod softball head coach recording a 257-153 overall record going 113-59 in MIAA contests leading the Ichabods to two MIAA Regular Season titles (2018, 2022) and three NCAA Central Regional (2018, 2022, 2024). HOladay became Washburn's all-time winning coach with a 13-0 win over Illinois-Springfield on Feb. 8, 2025. • In the national rankings, the Ichabods are ranked 19th in the nation in doubles with 16 and third in the nation in shutouts … individually, Sadie Walker is ninth in games started (5), 17th in complete games (3), 12th in strikeouts (32) and seventh in wins (4) … Alexis Tanguma is 23rd in the nation in doubles with four.
• #1 Makenzie Sais - 3 for 3 in stolen base attempts this season.
• #2 Kate Dolan - Has two hits in two at-bats this season with 2 RBI..
• #3 McKinley Kruger - Appeared in one game this season.
• #6 Karlyn Bowman - Appeared in two games this season collecting a hit and an RBI scoring a run.
• #7 Dalaney Anderson - Has appeared in five games this season.
• #8 Maddie McGee - Second on the team with three doubles.
• #9 Ashlyn Gaughan - Has appeared in six games this season.
• #12 Jenna Sprague - Has appeared in four games this season in the circle recording three strikeouts.
• #13 Avery Wende - Has not appeared in a game this season.
• #14 Danielle Schlader - Has six at-bats in six games this season with 1 RBI.
• #15 Ellington Hogle - Leads the team with 11 RBI and has four multi-RBI games this season.
• #16 Erin Boles - Batting .407 with 11 hits and two doubles.
• #17 Kaylee Wagner - Has had at least one hit in all nine games this season reaching base in each game this season.
• #18 Jaden LaBarge - Has started all nine games recording 4 RBI.
• #19 Ava Bloyd - 1-2 in the circle with 11 strikeouts.
• #20 Gracie Gallagher - Has two runs scored and a hit in seven games this season.
• #21 Sadie Walker - Leads the team with a 4-1 record and three complete games
• #22 Madi Moore  - Has not appeared in any games yet.
• #23 Mariah Wheeler - Has a double with five hits and 3 RBI in nine games this season..
• #24 Alexis Tanguma - leads the Ichabods with five multi-hit games and has reached base in all nine games this season entering the weekend with a seven-game hitting streak.
• #25 Kate Ediger - Both of her team-high two home runs have come leading off an inning.
  In 2025, Washburn is outscoring its opponents 18-9 in the sixth inning and 5-1 in the fifth inning but being outscored 10-1 in the fourth inning … Washburn is 3-0 in shutouts … the Ichabods are 4-0 when leading after four innings, 3-0 when leading after five innings and 4-1 when leading after six innings. (Feb. 2, 2025) BENTONVILLE, Ark. – The Washburn Ichabod softball team went 1-1 on day two of the Alvy Early Memorial Classic and head coach Brenda Holaday became Washburn's all-time wins leader in the opener, collecting her 257 victory in the Ichabod dugout. Washburn will wrap up its trip to Arkansas facing Arkansas-Monticello 11 a.m. Sunday.
Game 1 – WU 13, UIS 0
Th Washburn Ichabods ended a scoreless game in a big way scoring six runs in the sixth inning and seven runs in the seventh as Washburn rolled to a 13-0 win over Illinois-Springfield. In the game, Holaday recorded her 257th win at Washburn passing former head coach Lisa Carey, who played for Holaday at Washburn Rural High School.
With the score tied 0-0, Makenzie Sais drove in the first run of the game with a single that scored Maddie McGee who entered as a pinch runner for Dalaney Anderson, who reached on an error. Ellington Hogle singled to center scoring both Sais and Erin Boles. Kate Ediger then doubled driving in two more runs, scoring both Hogle and Gracie Gallagher. Washburn scored another run on a Jaden LaBarge ground out putting the Ichabods up 6-0.
After a scoreless sixth inning, Washburn came back with seven more runs in the top of the seventh. Back-to-back singles by Kate Dolan and Sais to start the inning set up a 2 RBI single by Danielle Schlader scoring both Ichabods. Alexis Tanguma then doubled driving in Kaylee Wagner who walked earlier in the inning.
Ediger then grounded out driving in a run and Karlyn Bowman singled driving in Tanguma. Continuing the seven-hit attack in the inning, Dolan drove in two runs with a single scoring two more Ichabods. Sais singled for the second time in the inning as Washburn went up 13-0.
The Prairie Stars (3-4) went down in order giving Holaday the historic win.
Sais led the Ichabods with three of Washburn's 14 hits in the game and Boles, Dolan and Tanguma  each had two hits. Ediger drove in three runs and Dolan had two.
Sadie Walker pitched six innings for the win striking out eight with no walks improving to 3-2 on the season.
Game 2 – UMSL 6, WU 4
The Tritons (3-5) broke open a scoreless game with a grand slam taking advantage of an Ichabod error accounting for four unearned runs. In the third inning the Tritons added a fourth run in the fourth going up 5-0.
In the sixth, the Ichabods broke the shutout with three runs in the frame when Jaden LaBarge doubled, scoring both Kate Ediger and Ashley Gaughan. Erin Boles then doubled scoring LaBarge as the Ichabods cut UMSL's lead to 6-3.
In the seventh, Washburn added another on a fielder's choice from Ediger that scored Gracie Gallagher, but the Ichabods did not get any closer in the 6-4 loss.
Alexis Tanguma had three hits in the game and LaBarge drove in two. Ava Bloyd (1-2) pitched three innings, and then Tanguma struck out four in four innings in relief, allowing one earned run.. ARKANSAS TECH
• The Golden Suns are 5-6 this season
• The Ichabods trail the all-time series 2-3 overall.
• Washburn fell 1-0 in eight innings the last time the two teams played on Feb. 12, 2023.
 
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• The Bison are 4-6 this season and will play five MIAA schools this weekend.
• Washburn leads the all-time series with the Bison 4-1 losing the last meeting 3-2 in Edmond last season.
  • is 257-153 in her ninth season as the Ichabod head softball coach and is the all-time winningest coach in program history.
• in nine seasons Holaday has gone 123-63 in MIAA contests leading the Ichabods to two MIAA regular season championships in 2018 and 2022 while leading the program to three of its six NCAA postseason in 2018, 2022 and 2024.
• In 2022, the Ichabods won their third MIAA Championship going 24-2 in the MIAA reaching the MIAA Tournament Championship game and the NCAA postseason as Holaday was named the MIAA Coach of the Year for the second time in her tenure at Washburn.
• Overall in nine seasons, Washburn has had 39 all-MIAA picks, one MIAA Player of the Year, one MIAA Pitcher of the Year, two MIAA Freshmen of the Year and 18 all-region selections and six All-American picks and five 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. • The Ichabods are 1333-976-1 in their 55th year of softball.
• The Ichabods have made six NCAA Tournament appearances (1999, 2006, 2008, 2018, 2022).
• Washburn won the 2002, 2018 and 2022 regular season MIAA titles.