Bragging rights within the state will be on the line this week as Concordia Softball looks forward to taking on Doane and Hastings. The Bulldogs (12-13, 1-1 GPAC) are coming off a doubleheader split with Morningside to open league play.
Bragging rights within the state will be on the line this week as Concordia Softball looks forward to taking on Doane and Hastings. The Bulldogs (12-13, 1-1 GPAC) are coming off a doubleheader split with Morningside to open league play.
Runs were hard to come by on Saturday (March 25) as Concordia and Morningside played two tight low-scoring affairs. The Bulldogs rallied to win game one, 2-1, before falling by a 3-1 score in game two.
In its first home action of 2023, Concordia Softball was blanked by visiting Nebraska Wesleyan in losses by scores of 4-0 and 8-0. The Bulldogs had been idle since wrapping up the Tucson Invite on March 10.
After an extended idle stretch that followed the Tucson Invite, the Bulldogs are eager to get out on the home diamond. Home doubleheaders are coming up this week versus Nebraska Wesleyan and Morningside.
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.
Plenty firepower returns to a Concordia lineup that averaged nearly 6.5 runs per game in 2016. Head coach Todd LaVelle's Bulldogs were picked to finish third in the GPAC preseason poll. The season begins Friday (Feb. 10) in Fort Worth, Texas.
Junior-to-be Michaela Woodward recently journeyed to South Africa to play and teach softball. She also swam with great white sharks.
One of the nation's most productive offenses, led by Autumn Owens, helped Concordia softball to its sixth 30-win season in program history.
A fierce competitor, sophomore third baseman Autumn Owens is enjoying a season that rates historically impressive among Concordia softball players all-time.
Co-ace pitchers Kylie Harpst and Michaela Woodward serve as two major reasons why the Concordia softball team is out to a 17-6 start.
Coming off back-to-back national tournament appearances, head coach Todd LaVelle's softball program enters 2016 with usual high aspirations. The Bulldogs open up the season Friday and Saturday in Dallas, Texas.
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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