• The Washburn softball team remains on the road this weekend for five more games against regional foes at the Cherokee Classic in Tahlequah, Okla. with all five games schedule against Great American Conference opponents.
• Washburn is 8-2 this season after going 4-1 at the Alvy Early Memorial Classic in Arkansas.
• The Ichabods have hit the 30-win mark for four-straight seasons dating back to the 2022 season …that is longest streak of 30 wins since a run between the 2002-07 seasons when the Ichabods recorded 30 wins six seasons in a row.
• The Washburn Ichabods were tabbed sixth in the MIAA Preseason Coaches poll that was released before the season started by the MIAA office
• Brenda Holaday is in her 10th season as the Ichabod softball head coach recording a 291-172 overall record going 136-74 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. • Dalaney Anderson is second in the nation in RBI with 17 … Makenzie Sais leads the nation in stolen bases with 19 and she is ranked third in stolen bases per game at 1.90.
• As a team the Ichabods are fifth in the nation in stolen bases with 29 and sixth in total runs with 76 … The Ichabods are also seventh in RBI with 68, 10th in doubles with 17, 11 in hits with 94 and 15th in fielding percentage at .980.
• Makenzie Sais' four stolen bases against William Jewell is the most by an Ichabod since Marrit Mead had three against Wayne State on Feb. 26, 2022.
  BENTONVILLE, Ark. – A dominant five-run sixth inning propelled the Washburn Ichabod softball team to a 7–5 comeback victory over Truman State on Sunday morning, lifting Washburn to 8–2 on the season in its final game at the Alvy Early Memorial Classic.
Trailing 5–2 heading into the bottom of the sixth, Washburn's offense erupted. Erin Boles opened the surge with an RBI single, plating Ashlyn Gaughan to make it 5–3. Two batters later, Dalaney Anderson delivered the game's biggest swing—a three-run home run to left field that put the Ichabods ahead 6–5.
The inning continued with a double from Aspen Burgardt, followed by an RBI single from Madi Moore to extend the lead to 7–5.
Anderson finished the day with three RBI, all coming on her go-ahead blast. Boles, Taylor Brees, Moore, and Maddie McGee each contributed an RBI as Washburn totaled 10 hits.
In the circle, Jenna Sprague was outstanding in relief. Entering in the fourth inning, Sprague tossed 3 2/3 scoreless frames, allowing just three hits keeping Truman off the board earning her first win of the season.
Truman built an early lead thanks to a grand slam from Cassie Smith, but after starter Kierra Goos exited, Sprague steadied Washburn and shut the Bulldogs down the rest of the way.
Washburn's scoring began in the second inning when Maddie McGee drove in Danielle Schlader. Brees later added an RBI double in the fourth as part of a two-hit performance. OKLAHOMA BAPTIST
• OBU is 10-0 so far this season. That includes a win over current No. 14 Oklahoma Christian, a team the Bison defeated 2-1 on Feb. 7 in Edmond and ranked No. 24 in the latest NFCA Top 25 poll.
 
EAST CENTRAL
• The Tigers are 2-6 this season after going 1-3 last weekend in Arkansas.
 
HARDING
• The Ichabods and Harding played each other last week in Arkansas and the Ichabods won 13-1 in six innings.
• Harding went 2-3 in Arkansas last weekend with wins over Texas Woman's and Emporia State.
 
SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE
• The Bulldogs are 2-7 this season after going 2-2 at the Rogers State Softball Festival.
 
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE
• The Savage Storm are 4-6 this season after going 2-3 last weekend in Arkansas including a 7-0 win over the Ichabods on Feb. 7.
  • is 291-172 in her 10th season as the Ichabod head softball coach and is the all-time winningest coach in program history.
• she has gone 136-74 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 (.791) 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  1360-993-1 in their 56th 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.