As the schedule lays out, the Bulldogs will be off until play at Mount Mercy on Sunday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Coach Brock Culler's squad just finished a stretch of playing 13 games in eight days. Concordia stands at 11-10 overall.
There may have been some tired legs, but the Bulldogs fought through it and won twice on their final day at the Tucson Invite. Concordia rode the pitching arm of Megan Eurich and got a walk-off hit from Aubrey Bruning on Friday (March 10).
It was a marathon Thursday (March 9) in Tucson as the Bulldogs played three times. The highlight of the day was a walk-off, two-run double from Caitlyn McGarvie. Concordia wound up 1-2 with a win over St. Francis (Ill.).
Two very different games played out on Wednesday (March 8) as the Concordia Softball team split two games at the Tucson Invite. The Bulldogs struck for 18 hits in a 13-5 win over Dickinson State before falling by a 4-0 count to Siena Heights.
Caitlyn McGarvie rapped out five hits while leading Concordia to a win over RPI as part of a 1-1 first day at the Tucson Invitational. An 11-run inning highlighted the day for the Bulldogs, who will play nine games at the invite.
A red hot weekend in Wichita resulted in Kylie Shottenkirk earning GPAC Player of the Week honors. The Lincoln North Star High School product went 9-for-14 (.643) with two home runs and 11 RBIs at the plate last week over four games.
The Bulldogs ended the Friends Invite in sizzling fashion, busting out for 24 runs on 27 hits in two run-rule victories on Saturday (March 4). Four Concordia players collected at least four hits on the day as the team moved its record to 6-6.
A big day for Kylie Shottenkirk helped power an offense that totaled 22 runs on 23 hits on Friday (March 3) in Wichita. Shottenkirk, Hanna Bowers and Delanie Voshell each homered as part of a 1-1 day at the Friends Invite.
Concordia Softball is gearing up to play 13 games over an eight-day stretch as part of a spring break trip to Wichita, Kan., and Tucson, Ariz. The Bulldogs enter the journey with a 3-5 overall record.
The sixth inning of both ends of the doubleheader in Atchison, Kan., haunted the Bulldogs, who fell by scores of 11-3 (six innings) and 7-5 on Sunday (Feb. 26). Four Concordia hitters recorded multiple hits on the day.
Winding paths led Kylie Harpst and Taylor Huff, former Lincoln North Star teammates, to Concordia to reunite with head coach Todd LaVelle.
A 17-game fall exhibition slate did nothing to dampen the spirits of a Concordia University softball program coming off back-to-back appearances at the NAIA national tournament. If anything, it only whetted appetites for spring 2016.
In 2014 then first-year head coach Todd LaVelle guided the Concordia University softball team to its first-ever national tournament appearance. A year later the Bulldogs captured the program’s first-ever win on the national stage.
For the second time in program history, and for the first time since 2007, the Concordia University softball team has earned the distinction of GPAC tournament champion.
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