University of South Dakota Athletics

NIL Opportunities: Bela Goerke

2023
Played in 46 of 52 games and earned 45 starts including 32 at catcher and 13 as the designated player … earned honorable mention all-Summit League honors … hit .293 with 25 RBIs and a team-leading six home runs … had nine doubles and a triple … posted an OPS of .844 which ranked second on the team … had 11 multi-hit games including three games with three hits … was a triple short of the cycle and drove in three runs in a game at Western Illinois (4/15) … homered in her first at bat on back-to-back days during games in Phoenix (2/25-26) … hit a solo home run in the top of the seventh inning for a 1-0 win against Central Arkansas (3/4) … threw out nine of 32 base stealers and had two pickoffs … was a CSC academic all-district honoree … named an NFCA Scholar-Athlete

2022
Second team all-Summit League honoree … homered in her first at bat as a Coyote and went deep twice on opening day (2/11) … played in and started 45 games with 35 starts behind the plate and 10 as the designated player … hit .282 with six home runs, 29 RBIs and 15 runs scored … upped her average to .333 in conference play with 16 RBIs, sixth-most in the league … was the first Summit League Player of the Week after going 7-for-18 with three home runs and 10 RBIs while leading USD to a 4-1 record in Huntsville, Texas (2/11-13) … was 7-for-9 with three doubles a home run and nine RBIs during a three-game sweep of North Dakota (4/15-16) … included in that run was a 3-for-3, five-RBI game in the finale … had nine multi-RBI games during the year, which were second-most on the team … hit two home runs during a doubleheader sweep at Western Illinois (4/30-5/1) … threw out 8-of-30 would-be base stealers and picked off two others … charged with just two errors defensively all season ... named an NFCA Scholar Athlete

2021 (Grand Canyon)
Logged five hits in 27 at bats at Grand Canyon including a home run … drove in eight … defensively, threw out two of seven base stealers … played in 17 games and earned nine starts
 
Prep
Four-year varsity player at Sahuaro where she was named all-region and all-Southern Arizona several times … hit .385 with five home runs her junior year and was batting .551 with five home runs as a senior before COVID-19 stopped play