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Softball Travels To Kansas For Midweek Nonconference Matchup
4/3/2017 3:30:00 PM | Softball
Creighton will play the Jayhawks in Lawrence for the first time since 2009
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Creighton travels to Lawrence, Kan. for a mid-week nonconference game against the Kansas Jayhawks on Wednesday night.Â
Matchup
UPDATED DATE: Wednesday, April 4 • Creighton (11-20) at Kansas (19-17) • Lawrence, Kan. • 6 p.m. (CT)
Follow the Action
Live stats for Wednesday's action can be found at Creighton.Statbroadcast.com.
Wednesday's game will be broadcast on the Jayhawk Radio Network, which is available online (kuathletics.leanplayer.com)
Scoring updates and infographics will be provided via Twitter at @BluejaySoftball.
Scouting Creighton (11-20)
Creighton opened its BIG EAST home schedule with three losses against BIG EAST-leading St. John's (April 1-2).Â
Tash Coffiel leads the Bluejay offense with a .352 batting average and .406 on-base percentage. The junior shortstop has a team-best 32 hits.Â
Ashley Cantu is the only other Creighton player hitting better than .300, as the freshman holds a .304 batting average and leads the team with 18 runs.
Freshman Sam Dellinger paces the Jays with 19 RBIs and eight extra-base hits.Â
In the circle, Dellinger holds a Creighton-low 3.32 ERA in 38.0 innings pitched over 12 appearances, including five starts. The freshman has two complete games, two wins and two saves.Â
Bryana Clark has logged a team-high 83.0 innings during 20 appearances in the circle, including 14 starts, with a 3.80 ERA, five complete games and 5-9 record.
Scouting Kansas (19-17)
The Jayhawks enter Wednesday's contest after falling during three games at Oklahoma State.
Jessie Roane leads the team with a .350 batting average, 42 hits, 12 doubles and 30 RBIs.
Four other Kansas regulars own a batting average at .300 or above, while Lily Behrmann holds a team-best .442 on-base percentage, which includes 20 walks.
The Jayhawks have hit 29 home runs, as four players have at least five and Taylor Dodson paces the squad with six long balls.
In the circle, Alexis Reid has logged 135.1 innings pitched with a 2.28 ERA, 86 strikeouts and 11 wins.Â
Head coach Megan Smith is in her eighth season at the helm of Kansas.Â
Series History vs. Jayhawks
Kansas leads the all-time series against Creighton 44-24-1.Â
The Jayhawks defeated the Bluejays 6-0 during Creighton's 2016 home-opener.
The Jays last win against Kansas came on April 15, 2010 in Omaha (8-0 W).
The last meeting between the two programs in Lawrence, Kan. came on March 25, 2009. Creighton swept a doubleheader with two one-run victories, including a 4-3 10-inning win during the second game.Â
Last Time Out
Creighton hosted St. John's for the first three-game BIG EAST series this season in Omaha.Â
The Red Storm took all three games by scoring a total of 34 runs.
St. John's clinched the first game 10-1 in five innings before recording a come-from-behind 11-7 victory in the second game of a doubleheader (April 1). Creighton led 7-3 before the Red Storm scored eight unanswered runs during the fifth and sixth innings of game two.
During the series finale on Sunday (April 2), Creighton rallied from a 5-1 deficit to take a 6-5 lead after five innings, but St. John's scored eight runs in the sixth to complete the weekend sweep with a 13-6 win.
McCoy Hits First Career Home Run
Senior Aujanae McCoy launched her first career home run to give Creighton a 6-5 lead during the final game of the Bluejays' series against St. John's.Â
McCoy entered Sunday's (April 2) contest with seven extra-base hits and seven RBIs in 75 games played in a Creighton uniform before she hit her go-ahead two-run homer on a 1-2 pitch during the bottom of the fifth inning.Â
McCoy is known less for her power and more for her speed, as she owns 24 stolen bases during two seasons at Creighton and had 84 steals during her freshman and sophomore years at Butler (Kan.) Community College.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Senior Jen Daro was hit by the pitch during the seventh inning of Creighton's final game against St. John's (April 2), marking the 35th time she has been hit in her career, and setting Creighton's career mark for hit by pitch.
The previous record was held by Michelle Graner (2007-10) with 34.
Daro has been hit by six pitches this season through 30 games played.Â
Last season, she was hit by a team-high seven pitches (47 games).
In 2015, Daro became the first player in school history to be hit by 10 or more pitches in multiple seasons, as she was plunked 12 times as a freshman in 2014 before 10 beanings in 2015 during her sophomore campaign.
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