North Dakota at North Dakota State || 4/12 (DH) - 4/13 
121st meeting, NDSU leads 79-41
Fargo, N.D. (Tharaldson Field)

FULL GAME NOTES ARE HERE

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - North Dakota softball rides a five-game winning streak, its longest of the season, to Fargo for a weekend series with North Dakota State. UND aims to improve its league standing, while the Bison look to snap a three-game Summit League losing streak. Live coverage links are available at www.FightingHawks.com. 

THE MATCHUP
» Game one of Saturday's doubleheader in Fargo will be the 121st meeting all-time in a series that saw its first pitch delivered in April of 1977.

» Since the two longtime rivals became conference foes with the 2019 Summit League season, the series has been back-and-forth with NDSU holding a 9-8 series lead, while the Hawks are currently riding a four-game win streak over the Bison. 

» NDSU opened Summit League play taking two of three from Kansas City and after a weekend off, the Bison dropped three at home to Omaha. 

» The Bison lead the league in stolen bases (32) and stolen bases per (0.91), while boasting the best double play effort in the league having turned 19 in 35 games. 

» NDSU is hitting .255 as a team with Rylee Henderson's .322 average pacing the club among everyday players. Star Cortez leads with 31 hits and Bella Dean is tops in run production with 23 RBI.

» Four NDSU arms have won three or more games. Savy Williams leads the staff with 61.0 innings pitched and 17 appearances. She is responsible for nearly a third of NDSU's 98 strikeouts as a staff.

FIVE STRAIGHT
The Hawks have won five-straight games, their longest streak of the season and the longest by UND since winning five-straight last season which included a series sweep of NDSU sandwiched in-between victories against Division II Minot State and fellow NSIC member Minnesota Crookston.

THEY'RE A GRITTY BUNCH
When asked postgame following his team's Wednesday sweep of Jamestown, head coach Jordan Stevens was asked to describe his team after the Hawks reached game #40 of the 2025 season. "Gritty, resilient. It hasn't been easy for us. We've had some ups and downs and they've done a really good job of picking the downs up pretty fast. I'm just really pleased with their work ethic and really happy that they are finding a lot of positive results."

HAWWWWWWWWWWKS WWWWWWWWWWIN
UND's Summit League sweep of visiting Kansas City pushed North Dakota to 20 wins. It is the 13th season in program history that the Hawks have reached 20 wins and the fifth as a Division I program. It is the program's first 20-win campaign since winning 22 games in 2019. 

DOUBLE TROUBLE
The Hawks banged out ten doubles in the series sweep of Kansas City; the most by the Hawks in any weekend this season. Leading the charge in the two-bagger department was Callie Honig and Taya Hopfauf who each delivered three. Hailey Bethune added a pair and the Hawks received doubles from both Makenna Alexander and Camryn Lasota. 

HOME COOKING
The Hawks moved to 3-0 all-time at Albrecht Field with its series sweep of Kansas City. UND tallied 23 hits over the three contests scoring a dozen runs with an overall slash of .303/.375/.434. Defensively, UND committed just two errors, while Fighting Hawks arms scattered a combined nine hits, struckout a collective 13 and posted an opponent batting average of .134. 

HOW SWEEP IT IS
The Hawks' sweep of KC is the first for UND this season and the first since taking all three Summit League contests against NDSU last spring. It was the third Summit series sweep for the Hawks under Stevens. In three Summit League series this season, the Hawks have produced an equal result or fared better in each than against the same opponents last season. UND swept the Roos after losing two of three at Apollo last season. The Hawks claimed one contest against South Dakota in the league opener to equal its series result from 2024 and UND won one over the preseason favorite Mavericks after being swept at Apollo last spring. The Hawks are off to the program's best nine-game start to Summit League play since becoming a member in 2019.

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