ROLLA, Mo. – One weekend remains in Missouri S&T's regular season softball schedule and the Miners are looking to make the most of it to earn its first appearance in the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament in six seasons when it hosts a pair of doubleheaders this weekend.

Missouri S&T will take on Upper Iowa in a noon twinbill at the S&T Softball Field, then close the regular season slate Sunday when Truman State comes to town for a doubleheader that will also get underway at noon.  The Miner seniors will also be honored prior to Saturday's contest.

The Miners, who are 22-28 overall after dropping both ends of a doubleheader Tuesday at Missouri Western, come into the weekend in fifth place in the GLVC standings at 12-10 and have a magic number of three to clinch a spot in the tournament.  A combination of two S&T wins and a loss by Truman State would put S&T in the tournament field.  The Miners could also clinch with a handful of other scenarios from the games on the docket this weekend.

Sydney Anderson (Elkhart, IA/North Polk) ranks fifth in the GLVC in hitting with a .401 batting average and leads the conference with 19 doubles, a mark that ranks 10^th in NCAA Division II.  Anderson has also driven in a team-leading 33 runs, while Bryn Wooldridge (Salisbury, Mo./Salisbury) owns a .352 mark at the plate and has driven in 23 runs.

Trista Grobe (DeSoto, MO/DeSoto) comes into the final weekend series with a .273 batting average and a team-leading four home runs, while Ty Neal (Enid, OK/Kremlin-Hilldale) is hitting .270; Grobe and Neal both homered in Sunday's doubleheader along with Baylee Jobson (Marceline, Mo./Marceline RV), who hit her first career homer as a Miner to spark a four-run first inning in the game two victory.

Charlye Rowland (Pearcy, Ark./Lake Hamilton) has the team's top earned run average in the circle of 3.43 and has fanned 120 hitters in 130 2/3 innings, while Wooldridge – who leads the staff with 12 wins and 136 strikeouts – has a 4.23 ERA.  Wooldridge picked up her 400^th career strikeout in Sunday's opener.

ABOUT THE OPPONENTS: Upper Iowa comes into its final weekend of its first season in the GLVC with a 16-32 overall record and 6-16 mark in conference play.  The Peacocks have dropped their last six games and were outscored 52-4 in those six games, all of which came to teams who currently reside among the top four in the conference standings.

Ari Charles leads Upper Iowa with a .331 batting average and Laila Pelds has a .315 mark and heads the team with five home runs and 33 runs batted in.  In the circle, the Peacocks possess a team earned run average of 5.91; Delaney Vetter leads the staff with seven wins and 135 strikeouts in 129 1/3 innings.

Truman State has dropped four straight heading into its Saturday doubleheader at Maryville and is two games out of the last playoff spot coming into the weekend.  Truman, 9-13 in conference play and 19-27 overall, is paced on the offensive side by Iowa State transfer Emily Wood, whose .382 batting average ranks eighth in the GLVC and also ranks among the league leaders with eight home runs and 35 runs batted in.

Madie Anderson leads Truman in the pitching department with an 8-10 record and 4.52 earned run average, as the Bulldogs have posted a team ERA of 5.42 on the season.  Anderson has a team-leading 71 strikeouts in 125 1/3 innings on the year.