DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Scholastica softball team will play at home for the third straight day this afternoon when it hosts Martin Luther College for one game at Kenwood Field at 5:45 p.m. Today's game is a make-up from a doubleheader that was postponed on Friday, April 13th.

Game Time:
Thursday at 5:45 p.m.

Game Coverage:
Live Stats

Last Action:
The Saints defeated Northland College yesterday afternoon 7-3 at Kenwood Field in a completion of a suspended game from April 15th. Andrea Wick (New Prague, Minn./New Prague HS) pitched five shutout innings to earn the win.

St. Scholastica Saints (24-8, 15-1 UMAC)
With their win over Northland yesterday, the Saints clinched at least a share of the UMAC regular season championship … They can clinch the title outright with a win today and there are still four games left in the crossover this weekend … Looking at the national statistics, the Saints are fifth in NCAA Division III in scoring, averaging 8.2 runs per game … CSS is also eighth on slugging percentage (.539) and stolen bases per game (2.72) … Bonnie Kowalczyk (Menomonee Falls, Wis./Menomonee Falls HS) currently leads the country in RBIs per game (1.71) … She is ranked 12th in slugging percentage (.927) and 18th in doubles per game (0.54) … Kowalczyk needs just three more doubles to tie the program record for most doubles in a season, set by teammate Merryssa Tiedeman (Zumbrota, Minn/Zumbrota-Mazeppa HS) in 2010 … She also just three RBIs away from tying the single-season mark set current assistant coach Rilee Dawson … Theresa Tauer (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS) is three RBIs away from tying the program record for career runs batted in … She is currently tied for the most doubles in a career (48) … Darcy Roach (East Grand Forks, Minn./Sacred Heart HS) has been strong for the Saints inside the pitching circle, with 10 victories in the last two weeks … During that span she has recorded seven or more strikeouts in six of those games … She just missed becoming the first CSS pitcher in program history to toss a seven-inning perfect game on Tuesday against Northwestern College, giving up a hit with two outs and two strikes in the top of the seventh.

Martin Luther Knights (8-17, 7-9 UMAC)
The Knights currently sit one game out in the loss column of the fourth and final tournament spot … Martin Luther is coming off a pair of losses on Tuesday when they hosted the other half of the split crossover … The Knights fell to the University of Minnesota Morris and Presentation College … The Knights have been a relatively streaky team this season with a pair of three-game winning streaks, but have four different losing streaks of three or more games … Sarah Free leads the team offensively with a ..432 batting average and eight doubles … Karla Opperman has driven in a team-high 22 runs and leads the team with four home runs … Laura Miller leads the team with six victories inside the pitching circle.

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Martin Luther: 46-7)
The Saints defeated the Knights on the morning of Saturday, April 14th at Kenwood Field by a 5-2 score. Darcy Roach (East Grand Forks, Minn./Sacred Heart HS) struck out 10 to earn the win.