(4) North Dakota vs. (1) Omaha || 5/8-11 a.m. 
78th meeting, UNO leads 67-10
Brookings, S.D. (Jerald T. Moriarty Field)

FULL GAME NOTES ARE HERE

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - North Dakota's attention turns to Thursday's opening game of day two of the Summit League Tournament as the Fighting Hawks are set to take a swing against top seeded and defending tournament champion Omaha. First pitch from JT Moriarty Field in Brookings is set for 11 a.m. Live coverage links are available at www.FightingHawks.com. 

THE MATCHUP
» The 78th meeting between North Dakota and Omaha will open the double elimination portion of the 2025 Summit League Tournament bracket. The winner moves on to Friday unscathed, while the loser will put its season on the line against the loser of the South Dakota State/South Dakota game at 4 p.m. on Thursday evening.

» UND and Omaha meet in the postseason for the second time after the Mavericks beat the Hawks 5-0 a winner's bracket contest in 2021. UNO took the season series winning twice over the Hawks in Omaha in late March. The Mavericks dominated the opener, UND repaid the favor in game two and Omaha edged the Hawks in the series finale. 

» Omaha, the league's automatic qualifier to the NCAA postseason a season ago and a squad that nearly appeared in a super regional, won 36 games this season and begins its postseason run with the league's pitcher of the year in Maddia Groff, the league's defensive player of the year in Maggie O'Brien and first-team infielder Sydney Thomason. 

» The Mavericks' pitching staff ranks fifth nationally in WHIP (1.06), seventh nationally in K-to-BB ratio (3.61) and carries a collective ERA of 2.61, a top 25 mark in DI. UNO is hitting .285 as a team, leads the Summit League with 48 home runs and averages just under six runs per game. Defensively, the Mavericks field at the nation's third-highest clip of .982.

MOVING ON
With its fifth run-rule victory and fourth shutout win of the season, North Dakota moved into the double elimination portion of the Summit League Tournament with its first tournament victory since an extra-inning win over NDSU in 2021. 

CAM JAM
Junior Camryn Lasota dominated the day on Wednesday against NDSU as the all-league performer recorded her second career three-hit game and drove in three of UND's eight runs for her tenth multi-RBI game of the season. The Wisconsin native doubled in two runs in the first inning to open scoring and singled in UND's fifth run in the second. 

IN GOOD HANDS
Senior pitcher Jackie Albrecht dialed in her seventh complete game of the season and her second shutout as a seven punchout performance slowed NDSU at the plate. The defense behind her also worked as UND stranded a collective nine Bison base runners and received flashy defensive plays from Katie Joten and Quincie Chunestudey. 

HOW THE HAWKS HAVE FARED IN THE TOURNEY
2025: W, 8-0 (5) vs. North Dakota State
2024: L, 5-6 (10) vs. South Dakota
2023: L, 0-2 vs. South Dakota
2022: L, 2-5 vs. North Dakota State
2021: L, 0-1 vs. South Dakota State
           L, 0-5 vs. Omaha
           W, 6-5 (10) vs. North Dakota State
2019: L, 2-4 vs. South Dakota State

GOT FIVE ON IT
The "five": Makaela Carr, Katie Joten, Jackie Albrecht, Camryn Lasota and Callie Honig. The "it": All-Summit League teams. For the first time as a member of the Summit League, North Dakota placed five players on all-league teams as Carr and Joten earned second team plaudits, while Albrecht, Lasota and Honig were named honorable mention. It's the most players to receive all-league honors for the Fighting Hawks since placing six players across multiple All-Great West Conference teams in 2012. 

SINGLE SEASON RECORD WATCH
DOUBLES: 75, 1st
RBI: 201, 2nd
WALKS: 152, 2nd
RUNS: 218, 2nd
STRIKEOUTS (PITCHING): 294, 4th

FINAL TIME IN THE FORKS
Eight Fighting Hawks, Katelyn Strauss, Kaycee Hayes, Hannah Thompson, Callie Honig, Makaela Carr, Angie Dumlao, Katie Joten and Jackie Albrecht, played in Grand Forks for the final time in their collegiate careers in the regular season weekend finale. The senior class has been instrumental in helping UND produce one of its most successful seasons in program history. 

CHASING HISTORY
The 2025 Fighting Hawks find themselves chasing history as UND's win over NDSU in the opening round of the Summit League Tournament matched the program's single-season wins record of 26, which was set in 2018, is just a single win away for UND. Additionally, North Dakota is 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.

SEVEN IN SUMMIT
UND's win over NDSU 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. 

HISTORIK
Senior pitcher Jackie Albrecht became the fourth UND arm to reach 400 strikeouts in her career after a 7-K effort on Senior Day. The Barrington, Illinois native is also staring down a third-straight 100-strikeout campaign. Albrecht joins Tara Peterson (932), Kaylin VanDomelen (567) and Mikki Cochrane (494) as UND arms with 400+ career strikeouts. VanDomelen holds the Division I career record. 

TURNIN' TWO
Erasing two base runners on the same play has been a staple of the Hawks' defensive effort this season. UND finished the regular season as the Summit League leader in double plays turned (31): a mark that ranks 8th nationally.