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The Washburn University softball team will wrap up an eight-game roadtrip with two doubleheaders, traveling to Central Missouri on Thursday and Newman on Saturday.

 

 The Central Missouri twinbill has been moved up to Thursday due to the weather forecast.

 

The Ichabods are 28-15 this season and 5-9 in the MIAA.

 

After battling through a seven-game losing streak the Ichabods swept Fort Hays State and Nebraska-Kearney on the road last weekend in MIAA play.

 

"I think it was good,'' Washburn sophomore star center-fielder Makenzie Sais said. "We definitely needed to just bounce back from everything that we have faced.

 

"It was really helpful. Definitely everybody feels more like themselves now, so that's really good.'' 

 

Washburn is closing in on its fifth 30-win season in a row.

 

"I think in practice we've been doing very, very well building momentum and I feel like after this last weekend I think we're only going to go up from here,'' Sais said.

 

Sais became the Ichabod single-season leader in stolen bases earlier this season and enters the week with a nation-best 61 stolen bases, 20 ahead of the No. 2-ranked player on the chart.

 

Sais is just four steals away from tying the MIAA single-season record of 65, set by Becca Alt from Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri S&T) set in 1997. Sais' 61 stolen bases are second on the MIAA top-10 single season chart.

 

Sais' 78 career stolen bases at Washburn trailing Torrie Beauchamp's 87 steals from 1996-1999 and Marrit Mead's 96 from 2021-24.

 

Sais ranks seventh in the nation in hits with 61 and is batting .457 in MIAA games.

Washburn senior pitcher Sadie Walker is ninth in the nation in shutouts with five and she is 26th in strikeouts with 117.

Said leads the Ichabods this season with 19 multi-hit games and Dalaney Anderson and Kate Ediger both have 13.

 

Anderson leads the Ichabods with 13 multi-RBI games.

Central Missouri is 26-12 and 9-5 in the MIAA, winning its last five games including sweeps over Rogers State and Northeastern State.

Lexi Blackmon leads the Jennies with a .398 batting with 24 runs scored while Taylor Thompson has a team-high 43 RBI and is tied for the team lead with 12 home runs.

Riley Bebb is 4-3 in the pitcher's circle with a 2.94 ERA and Andi Sieberneck is 10-4 with a 3.03 ERA.

 

Newman is 7-31 overall and 2-10 in the MIAA and has lost its last four games after getting swept by East Central and Northwest Missouri.

 

The Jets' two MIAA wins came in a sweep over Missouri Western on April 2.

 

AJ Borja is batting .320 with 31 hits and Malie Noda has a team-high 37 hits and 20 runs scored with 16 RBI.

Kinyon DeCorte is 2-6 in the circle with a 5.77 ERA.