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Iowa State University Athletics
Cyclones Head To Big 12 Championships
05.07.2008 | Softball
AMES, Iowa - Iowa State will open play at the Big 12 Championships on Friday at 5 p.m. against eighth-seeded Baylor. The tournament will be held at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla., for the 13th time.
Live Stats
- Live stats will be available for all Iowa State games at Cyclones.com. Live stats for all games are available at Big12sports.com.
Cyclone Notebook
- Ninth-seeded ISU (28-28, 4-14 Big 12) will face eighth-seeded Baylor (23-13, 4-13 Big 12) Friday at the 13th Big 12 Championships in Oklahoma City, Okla. Should the Cyclones win they will face top-seeded Texas A&M on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
- The Cyclones are just 2-8 in the last 10 games, with wins over South Dakota State and Kansas during the stretch.
- Last weekend at Kansas, Iowa State won the first game 2-1 before falling 6-2 in the regular season finale. The Cyclones hit three homers on the weekend, one each from Alex Johnson, Sydni Jones and Courtney Wray.
- The Cyclones have homered a school-record 36 time this season, surpassing the previous record of 27 in 2002.
- Wray has 59 hits this season, which ties for the third-best single season in school history. With her next hit she will become just the third player in school-history to record 60 hits in a single-season. Her 31 runs scored ties for the third most in ISU's single-season record books.
- Rachel Zabriskie became the school's all-time freshman leader with 144 strikeouts on the season, surpassing interim assistant Alyssa Ransom-Tjaden's mark of 136, which was set in 2004. She'll move into a tie for seventh on the overall single-season charts with her next strikeout.
- Kelsey Kidwell is tied for first on the single-season charts with her 18th stolen base. With her next stolen base, Kidwell will move past Lisa Frank, who set the mark in 2000.
- Sydni Jones led ISU with a .319 batting average in league play, well above her .232 average overall.
- Alex Johnson is just the ninth player in school history to drive in 30 runs in a season. Johnson, who has 35 on the season, is climbing the career charts with 63 RBI, which is tied for 10th all-time.
- ISU has four players with 20+ RBI for the first time since the inception of the Big 12 (1996).
- Iowa State's 28 wins is the most since 1989 when the Cyclones went 32-18-1. The Cyclones are looking to finish above .500 for the first time since 1999.
- Ariel Coburn needs just one home run to tie for the Iowa State single-season record (Lindsey Herrin, 2002).
- Amanda Bradberry, Alex Johnson and Courtney Wray are riding seven-game hitting streaks.
Stat of the Week
- Iowa State is averaging 3.7 runs per game this season, up from just 2.9 a year ago. The Cyclones are 24-6 when scoring at least three runs this season.
Scouting Baylor (23-21, 4-13 Big 12)
- Baylor heads to the Big 12 Championships with a 2-8 record in its last 10 games. The Lady Bears haven't played since Wednesday, April 30 when they dropped a doubleheader to Oklahoma.
- Against the Sooners, BU fell 4-0 in game one and 9-4 in 12 innings in the second contest. Brette Reagan collected a pair of hits, including a homer, and Courtney Oberg went 3-for-6 in the second game to lead the Lady Bears.
- On the season, centerfielder Nicole Wesley paces the Baylor offense with a .383 batting average and 14 stolen bases. Leadoff hitter Kirsten Shortridge hits .362 and is tied for second in the Big 12 with 24 stolen bases. Reagan has a team-high eight homers and 33 RBI and has collected 31 walks.
- In the circle, four players have seen relatively equal playing time. Shortridge has tossed the most innings but is just 5-9 on the season. Jenny Isham is 11-3 with a 2.18 ERA. In Big 12 play, Shortridge went 2-6 with a 3.89 ERA while Shaina Brock collected the other two wins and finished 2-4 with a 4.62 ERA.
- Baylor holds a 14-9 edge in the all-time series. The teams have met twice at the Big 12 Championships with each winning a game.
Last Time They Met
- Iowa State and Baylor met in the first Big 12 series of the season, with Baylor taking the first game 5-0 and ISU securing the split with a 2-1 win in Sunday's game.
- In the first game, Kirsten Shortridge tossed a complete game shutout and ISU was hampered by four fielding errors.
- The Cyclones took game two on Sydni Jones' two-run fourth inning homer. Rachel Zabriskie picked up her first Big 12 win, going the distance and giving up five hits but allowing just one run.
- In the series, Kristy Olsen went 2-for-2 and was hit by a pitch. Olsen also stole two bases against the Lady Bears. Jacquelyn Beatty and Jones added three hits in the series.
Iowa State At The Big 12 Championships
- Iowa State is 4-15 all-time at the Big 12 Championships, which are being held in Oklahoma City for the 13th consecutive season.
- ISU is 1-1 against Baylor at the tournament.
- Raven Coberg (1996) is the only Cyclone to ever earn Big 12 all-tournament team honors.
Record-Setting Offensive Production
- The 2008 Iowa State softball team has seen record-setting offensive production. The Cyclones set new school records for runs (209), home runs (36) and RBI (181). Their 379 hits is the second-most in school history behind only the 429 ISU had in 1988. The 67 stolen bases is also second all-time with 70 being the record set in 2000.
14 Wins And Counting
- Rachel Zabriskie became the first pitcher in 20 years to reach 14 wins in a season. In fact, the freshman, who owns the ISU single-season freshman mark, hadn't even been born when Jane Peterson won 16 games in 1988.
A Different Look
- Third-year Iowa State head coach Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler is taking a leave of absence as she is on bed rest expecting twins. Assistant coaches Gary Hines and Crystal Turner will serve as acting head coaches and former Cyclone Alyssa Ransom-Tjaden joins the squad as an interim assistant coach.
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