North Dakota vs. Minnesota Crookston || 4/23 
19th meeting, UND leads 18-0
Grand Forks, N.D. (Albrecht Field)

FULL GAME NOTES ARE HERE

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Previously scheduled for a doubleheader, North Dakota and Minnesota Crookston will convene at Albrecht Field for a single seven-inning contest set for a 5 p.m. start. The neighboring programs meet for the 19th time all-time with UND aiming for its 25th win of the season in its final midweek tilt of 2025. Live coverage links of the action are available at www.FightingHawks.com.  

THE MATCHUP
» Despite sharing the same regional skies (and being a short drive across state lines), the Fighting Hawks and the Golden Eagles meet for just the 19th time overall and for just for the second time since the host made the jump to Division I after playing last season for the first time since 2009. 

» The Golden Eagles enter Wednesday's action averaging 3.1 runs per game, but have been shutout by the Hawks in the previous three meetings. UND has tossed shutouts against neighboring UMC a dozen times. 

» UMC enters the midweek tilt with top-90 marks nationally in Division II in walks (133) and fielding percentage (.962). 

» At the plate, Hannah Trzinski paces the Golden Eagles with a .333 average and is one five players with 30 or more hits this season. Seven UMC hitters are responsible for 10+ RBI over 49 games. In the circle, Delaney Penner leads the staff with six wins and starter-best 2.81 ERA, while Alexa Guilford follows with five victories and a 2.86 ERA. Five arms have reached 20+ punchouts this season with Penner's 48 leading the team. 

TOUGH WEEKEND
The Hawks dropped all three of their weekend matchups with St. Thomas as the Tommies used a pair of three-run first innings in Friday's doubleheader and a two-run seventh inning blast in the series finale to earn the sweep. 

HONED IN
For the first time in her career, senior designated player Callie Honig earned Kwik Star Summit League Softball Peak Player of the Week honors. Honig's honor is the third for UND this season which is a season high for the program as a member of the Summit League.

The Scottsdale, Arizona native hit .667 recording six hits in nine at bats over the weekend in Fargo as UND took two of three from their Peace Garden State foe. Honig blasted her fourth home run of the season in the series opener, and it stood as the lone tally for either dugout in the contest as UND claimed a 1-0 win.
 
She added a hit in game two and returned on Sunday with a 3-for-5 effort which included a double and three RBI. Her team-leading 13th two bagger of the season plated the first run for either team in the rubber match and her last hit was the eventual game-winning knock as she placed a full-count, bases loaded pitch with two outs in the eighth inning into shallow left centerfield to plate a pair and give the Hawks a lead that would hold.
 
For the week, which included a midweek doubleheader against Jamestown, Honig produced a slash of .500/.563/.786 with seven base hits including a double and a home run. She delivered a team-leading four RBI, scored a pair of runs and was walked twice.  

CHASING HISTORY
The 2025 Fighting Hawks find themselves chasing history as the program's single-season wins record of 26, which was set in 2018, is well in reach for UND. The Hawks are in the midst of the program's third 24-win season; all of which have occurred since 2000. Additionally, North Dakota, currently two games above .500 are hunting the program's first season with an above .500 finish since the flood-shortened season of 1997 when the Hawks went 12-10. The Hawks' last full season with an above .500 finish was in 1995 when UND went 21-18. A .500 or better finish in 2025 would be the fifth such conclusion to a season in program history.

CLOSING IN
UND's win over the Bison in the series finale gave the Hawks its seventh Summit League victory of the season marking the fourth season since the program's first year of SL action in 2019 that the program has reached seven conference wins. UND is two wins away from matching 2023's best such effort and three SL wins from reaching ten for the first time since 2018: UND's last as a member of the Big Sky Conference and the last time the Hawks finished .500 or better in conference play.

IN HER SIGHTS
Senior pitcher Jackie Albrecht enters the week five strikeouts away from becoming the fourth UND arm to reach 400 strikeouts in her career. The Barrington, Illinois native is staring down a third-straight 100-strikeout campaign. If she reaches 400, she will join Tara Peterson (932), Kaylin VanDomelen (567) and Mikki Cochrane (494). VanDomelen holds the Division I career record. 

KEEP IT 100
Katie Joten's two-hit day in the series finale at NDSU, her 11th multi-hit game of the season, moved her to the century mark in base knocks for her career as a Fighting Hawk. Her 100th hit could arguably be her most important to date as she hustled for an infield single which extended an eighth inning for UND that saw the Hawks plate two runs, including Joten, to grab a 5-3 lead that they would not relinquish. 

Full game notes are attached above.