ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's softball team will get to play at home for the first time in the 2024 season this weekend as the Miners have a pair of Great Lakes Valley Conference doubleheaders scheduled at the S&T Softball Field.

The Miners, 10-18 overall and 1-3 in the GLVC, will host Southwest Baptist in a noon doubleheader on Friday, then return to the field Sunday to take on Drury in a twinbill that will also begin at noon.

S&T opened its GLVC schedule over the past weekend, where it fell twice to Quincy and in the opening game of its Sunday doubleheader at Illinois Springfield before knocking off the Prairie Stars 7-3 to pick up its first conference win.  Bryn Wooldridge (Salisbury, Mo./Salisbury) picked up the win in the circle with 11 strikeouts along the way and has a staff-leading 69 strikeouts in 67 innings to go with her 5-6 record.  Charlye Rowland (Pearcy, Ark./Lake Hamilton), meanwhile, is 4-5 with a 3.81 ERA and has fanned 65 hitters in 71 2/3 innings.

Wooldridge also leads S&T at the plate with a .379 batting average and has 11 of her 33 hits for extra bases.  She currently ranks among the top 20 in the GLVC in hitting and in runs batted in with 19, where she is second on the team to Sydney Anderson's (Elkhart, IA/North Polk) 20.  Anderson, who is hitting .325, is also second in the GLVC with 10 doubles entering play this weekend.

Trista Grobe (DeSoto, MO/DeSoto) is batting .286 on the season with 15 runs batted in and Ty Neal (Enid, OK/Kremlin-Hilldale) is batting .277 and has eight doubles along with Wooldridge and Grobe.
 
ABOUT THE OPPONENTS: Southwest Baptist is 11-15 on the season, but went winless in four conference outings over the opening weekend of GLVC play as it was swept by nationally-ranked Indianapolis and by Lewis, getting outscored 30-2 in the four contests.

Angelina Micone leads the Bearcats at the plate with a .371 batting average, while Margo Frossard is hitting .329 and leads SBU in the production categories with five home runs, 17 runs batted and 11 stolen bases.  In the circle, Emma Kreisel is 5-4 with a 2.60 earned run average and 50 strikeouts, while Paige Leithead has four wins on the season.

Drury also lost doubleheaders to UIndy and Lewis over the weekend and is 12-17 overall (0-4 GLVC) heading into its Saturday twinbill at Maryville.

The Panthers have been paced at the plate by Sophia Luetticke with a .385 average and seven stolen bases, while Taylor Hartsell is batting .333 with two homers and 19 runs batted in.  Lauren Beier is among the GLVC leaders with six home runs.  Bailee Nixon holds a 6-2 record and 3.63 earned run average, while Kristina Bettis has struck out 63 hitters in 64 innings.