MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Following the late inning heroics on the first day of the Summit League Tournament, the No. 4-seeded South Dakota softball team looks ahead to their next opponent in top-seed Omaha on Thursday morning from Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.
 
GAME #52: South Dakota (17-33-1, 7-11 SL) vs. Omaha (34-10, 15-2 SL)
Where: Jane Sage Cowles Stadium (1,000) | Minneapolis, Minn.
When: Wednesday, May 7 | 11 a.m. (CT)
Watch: Summit League Network
 
 
GAME NOTES

• The Coyotes have played multiple games under head coach Robert Wagner at the Summit League Tournament in six of the eight league tournaments he has been head coach.
• South Dakota was one of two Summit teams (St. Thomas) to defeat Omaha in the regular season.
• Allie Cromer enters with an active nine game hit streak.
• The bat of Brooke Carey leads the team in batting average at .352.
• Sara Iburg leads the team with her 27 RBI on the season.
• Cromer has hit four home runs over the last three weekends, marking all four of her HRs as a Yote coming in that span.
• Madison Evans has been the workhorse for the Yotes, making 29 appearances with 26 starts and 17 complete games in the circle with an 12-13 record.
• Two more starts for Evans would see her crack the USD single season top-10 list for starts in a season (10^th = 28 starts).
• Her 163.2 innings of work leads the Summit League, while her 161 strike outs continues to sit second in the league.
• Evans' 161 strike outs entering Thursday sits 5th in a single season in program history, needing eight more to move into fourth all-time.
• Heading to Minneapolis, Delaney White currently holds the South Dakota career record for best fielding percentage (.995) with all 208 of her games played being starts.
• South Dakota has played in four extra-inning games this season and holds a 2-1-1 record in those games.
• Wagner sits second all-time in program history with his 220 wins as the head coach of the Yotes.

 
SERIES HISTORY
Omaha leads the all-time series, 107-27 dating back to the first meeting in 1979.
 
South Dakota was just one of two Summit League teams (St. Thomas) to pick up a win over the Mavericks this season with a Game 2 win on Saturday, May 1 in a thrilling 5-4 10-inning affair. Evans pitched her fifth 10+ strike out game of the season with her 11 punch outs of Omaha batters.
 
SCENARIOS
WIN: Following a win, the Coyotes would be in the driver's seat of the double elimination format and would not play again until Friday, May 8. The win would place USD in Game 6 and would be a 1 p.m. first pitch to start the day Friday from Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.
 
LOSS: If South Dakota were to fall to Omaha tomorrow, they'd turn around and play a second game later in the day. The Yotes would play in a 5 p.m. (approx.) elimination game against the loser of Game 4 between St. Thomas and South Dakota State.
 
For more information, stay tuned to the schedule page of GoYotes.com or championship central on TheSummitLeague.org for the most up-to-date information regarding opponent, game times, and more.