The North Platte Community College Knights softball team will travel to Hastings to play the Hastings College Junior Varsity Lady Broncos onWednesday, April 15.
The Knights are 16 – 20 on the season. They are hitting .336 as a team with 34 home runs, which is 11th in the nation amongst National Junior College Athletic Association Division II schools.
The Knights are led offensively by Sara Villalobos, with a .442 batting average. Villalobos also had hit six home runs, and batted in 29 runs. Villalobos leads the team in hits with 50, runs scored with 30 and an on base percentage of .504.
Sara Runia leads the Knights with eight home runs, eight doubles and a .729 slugging percentage. Runia is hitting .442, has scored 21 runs, has 46 hits and has 26 runs batted in.
Brittney Odum leads the team in runs batted in with 31. Odum is hitting .404, has seven home runs and seven doubles.
In the ring, the Knights are led by Baileigh Oleson with a 3.19 earned run average. Oleson is 6 – 8 on the year, has struck out 53 and has one save on the season. Shannon Lieber is 8 – 9 on the season with an earned run average of 3.57 and has 61 strike outs.
There are no available statistics for the Lady Broncos. Former North Platte High School Lady Bulldog Ashton Hernandez is a pitcher for the Lady Broncos.
Hernandez in the prior meeting against the Knights pitched six innings, allowed nine runs, five earned runs and struck out two.
Game times are at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.