Skip To Main Content
Skip To Main Content

Omaha Athletics

Jamie White, Maggie O'Brien, lynsey Tucker
A.J. Olnes

Softball Opens 10-Game Road Trip at North Dakota

Apr 8, 2022

OMAHA, Neb. - The Mavericks will play their next 10 games on the road starting this weekend with a conference series at North Dakota. The teams will open the weekend with a doubleheader at noon on Saturday and close the action with a single game Sunday morning at 11 am. Omaha is tied third in the standings while North Dakota sits tied seventh.

Quick Hits
  • The Mavericks improved to 14-11 overall and 3-3 in Summit League play after winning the series last weekend vs. North Dakota State.
  • Omaha earned two shutout wins with Pitcher of the Week Kamryn Meyer in the circle. The Mavericks took a 4-0 win in game one and closed the weekend with a 1-0 win.
  • Meyer retired 24 batters over the two starts.
  • Omaha recorded three hits in each of the wins. Sophie Cerveny led the Mavericks on the weekend hitting .500 with four hits. 
  • Meyer continues to dominate the league and finds herself ranked among the top pitchers in the country.
  • Her two shutouts over the weekend brought her season total to eight, which leads the league and ranks third in the country. Meyer also ranks in the top-25 in ERA (1.27/24th), hits per seven innings (3.33/8th), strikeouts (139/25th), and strikeouts per seven innings (11/14th).
  • Rachel Weber leads Omaha and the Summit League with nine doubles this season. Her nine doubles sits 20th in the nation.
  • Jamie White's on base percentage (.566) sits first in the league and 15th in the NCAA.

Scouting North Dakota
The Fighting Hawks are 12-26 overall and 2-4 in league play heading into the weekend. They took a game in each series with Kansas City and Western Illinois. As a team, UND is hitting .223 on the season and the pitching staff sits fifth in the league with a 3.97 ERA.

Fighting Hawks to Watch
  • Madi Moore leads the Fighting Hawks at the plate hitting .301 over 113 at-bats. She's totaled 34 hits including a double and triple. Moore has four RBI and seven runs scored through the first 38 games.
  • Jannay Jones has made a team-leading 15 starts in the circle. She has a 2.29 ERA over 16 appearances, 11 complete games, and 94.2 innings pitched. Jones has retired a team-high 56 batters and is 5-9 on the season.

Series History
Omaha leads the all-time series 57-8. The teams split the regular season series last year with the Mavericks winning the Saturday doubleheader and the Fighting Hawks taking Sunday's. Meyer then pitched a no-hitter in the first game of the Summit League tournament against UND. The Mavericks scored five runs on eight hits, while Meyer struck out eight in the circle.
Print Friendly Version