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2015 NORTHWESTERN SOFTBALL MARY NUTTER CLASSIC THE @NUSBCATS The Tournament THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE The Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic hosted GAME 10 • vs. No. 13 Arizona 14 • NCAA TOURNAMENT Appearances Friday, Feb. 20 • 8 p.m. CT/6 p.m. PT 7 • BIG TEN Championships League Dreams Park in Cathedral City an- Yankee Field • Home • Third Base Dugout 7 • NCAA Regional Championships nuallyover four attracts days andESPN five crews, fields vendors at the Big of all 5 • WCWS Appearances shapes and sizes, alumni of the All-Amer- GAME 11 • vs. Syracuse 3 •WCWS Semifinals Friday, Feb. 20 • 10:30 p.m. CT/8:30 p.m. PT 1 • WCWS Championship Series Yankee Field • Home • Third Base Dugout programs.ican Girls Professional The 2015 edition Baseball is no League differ - 2015 SCHEDULE/RESULTS ent,(AAGPBL) with 35 and schools—including the nation’s top collegiate 13 of the GAME 12 • vs. No. 14 LSU (3-6, 0-0 B1G) Saturday, Feb. 21 • 7 p.m. CT/5 p.m. PT current USA Today/NFCA Top 25—from Yankee Field • Visitor • First Base Dugout Date Opponent Time (CT)/Result across the country converging for one of GAME 13 • vs. South Carolina FEBRUARY 6-7 Kajikawa Classic—Tempe, Ariz. Sunday, Feb. 22 • 11 a.m. CT/9 a.m. PT 6 vs. North Carolina W, 7-3 Thesoftball’s Field biggest parties. Fenway Field • Visitor • First Base Dugout 6 vs. UC Santa Barbara W, 13-4 (5) 7 vs. Texas L, 5-4 No. 4 Oklahoma, No. 8 Georgia, No. 9 Flor- 7 vs. No. 2 Oregon L, 8-0 (5) ida State, No. 10 Tennessee, No. 11 Ken- THIS WEEK’S COVERAGE 8 vs. California L, 5-2 tucky, No. 12 UCLA, No. 13 Arizona, No. 14 13-15 Wilson/DeMarini Desert Classic—Las Vegas LSU, No. 18 Missouri, No. 21 California, No. LIVE STATS: Available for all of Northwestern’s 13 vs. No. 12 UCLA L, 12-3 23 Texas A&M, No. 24 Notre Dame, No. 25 game’s this weekend courtesy of on-site SIDs. Live 13 vs. BYU L, 5-1 stats will not always be through Gametracker; 14 at UNLV L, 8-7 15 vs. Long Beach State W, 5-2 direct links will be available on the schedule page at LoyolaTexas, BYU, Marymount, Cal Poly, LongCal State Island, Fullerton, Maryland, NUsports.com. 20-22 Nutter Collegiate Classic—Cathedral City, Calif. Fresno State, Indiana, Long Beach State, 20 vs. No. 13 Arizona 8 p.m. LIVE TWITTER: Get live game updates via Twitter 20 vs. Syracuse 10:30 p.m. State, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, San by following @NU_SportsLIVE. Live tweets will be 21 vs. No. 14 LSU 7 p.m. Nebraska, Nevada, Northwestern, Ohio 22 vs. South Carolina 11 a.m. Diego State, South Carolina, Stanford, Syra- available regularly throughout the weekend. MARCH LIVE AUDIO: Live audio will not be available for the 27-1 Louisville Slugger—Fullerton/Long Beach, Calif. first three games this weekend. Sunday morning’s Feb 27 vs. Southern Utah 11:30 a.m. Thecuse, UC Preview Santa Barbara, UNLV and Utah. Feb 27 at Cal State Fullerton 4:30 p.m. Northwestern is making its 11th trip to contest will feature an audio broadcast by South Feb 28 vs. Stanford 11 a.m. Carolina SID Koby Padgett. Doug Meffley and the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic (for- 1 vs. UCLA 1:15 p.m. Northwestern live audio return Feb. 27-March 1 at the merly the Palm Springs Classic and the Ca- Long Beach Louisville Slugger Invitational. 7-8 Louisville Classic—Louisville, Ky. 7 vs. Massachusetts 9:30 a.m. 7 vs. Ball State 11:30 a.m. This year, NU will play four games includ- 8 vs. Illinois State 11:30 a.m. ingthedral two Cityagainst Classic) ranked in thefoes last and 12 one seasons. more 8 at Louisville 2 p.m. against a South Carolina team sitting one spot out of the top-25. Northwestern opens its 14 IUPUI (DH) (at Rosemont) Noon 20 at Penn State 5 p.m. 21 at Penn State 2 p.m. 22 at Penn State Noon Collegeschedule World with anSeries 8 p.m. and CT/6 have p.m. played PT doubleheadernearly every year against since, No. usually 13 Arizona at the andseason-opening Syracuse. 24 at Hofstra 2 p.m. KajikawaThe two Wildcats’ Classic. squads met in the national championship series at the 2006 Women’s 24 vs. Fordham 4 p.m. 27 WISCONSIN o 4 p.m. On Saturday, Northwestern will play a lone contest at 7 p.m. CT/5 p.m. PT against No. 28 WISCONSIN o 1 p.m. 14 LSU. Last year the Wildcats traveled to the LSU Tiger Invitational where they fell to the 29 WISCONSIN o Noon Tigers, 4-0, in the only loss of an otherwise 4-1 weekend. Getaway Day at the Mary Nutter APRIL 3 PURDUE o 4 p.m. 4 PURDUE o 1 p.m. 5 PURDUE o Noon Gamecocks.features NU and South Carolina. In 2013 at the Under Armour Showcase hosted by South 8 UIC 4 p.m. Florida,Northwestern Marisa Bast enters hit a ninth-inning this weekend home run to give the Wildcats a 3-1 win over the 10 at Minnesota o 6 p.m. 11 at Minnesota o 1 p.m. with a 3-6 overall record, having played a IN THESE NOTES 12 at Minnesota o Noon delightfully tough schedule to this point. • Head Coach Kate Drohan (PAGE 2) 15 at Notre Dame 5 p.m. In its last contest Sunday at the Wilson/ 17 at Nebraska o 5:30 p.m. • Social Notes (PAGE 3) 18 at Nebraska o 1 p.m. DeMarini Desert Classic, NU defeated an • The Northwestern Roof Club (PAGE 4) 19 at Nebraska o Noon 22 ILLINOIS (DH) o 2 p.m. • NCAA Statistical Rankings (PAGE 4) 24 OHIO STATE o 4 p.m. Senior Julia Kuhn leads Northwestern • Big Ten Overall Stat Rankings (PAGE 5) o explosive Long Beach State team, 5-2. 25 OHIO STATE Noon • National Polls (PAGE 6) 26 OHIO STATE o Noon while and 29 DEPAUL 4 p.m. Andrea DiPrima Andrea Filler • NU Single-Game Records (PAGE 6) in batting early on with a .417 average • Season/Career Records (PAGES 7/8) MAY 1 at Iowa o 6 p.m. • Roster/Quick Facts Information (PAGE 9) 2 at Iowa o 2 p.m. each are batting .348 while combining for 3 at Iowa o 1 p.m. four doubles, four home runs and 19 RBIs through NU’s first nine games. 7-10 Big Ten Tournament—Columbus, Ohio SOFTBALL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS INFORMATION All times Central • Home games in BOLD CAPS • o Big Ten games Softball Contact: Office Phone: Office Fax: Cell Phone: Doug MeffleyE-mail: (847) 491-3588 • (847) 491-8818 (847) 833-2471 • [email protected] @NU_SPORTS 2015 NORTHWESTERN SOFTBALL @NUSBCATS HEAD COACH KATE DROHAN LEADING OFF Northwestern head coach Kate Drohan is in her 14th season at the helm of the Northwestern’s Calling Card: Strength of Schedule - Wildcats’ program alongside her twin sister, Year in and year out, no team seeks out stronger opponents than NU. That scheduling strat Caryl Drohan. A 1995 egy helped the ’Cats earn No. 2 and No. 4 overall national seeds during its Women’s College graduate of Providence World Series runs of 2006 and 2007, and it bore fruit again in 2012 when NU had the No. who earned three 1 rated nonconference strength of schedule to help it earn an NCAA Tournament berth. A All-BIG EAST honors @KateDrohan few stats on NU’s 2015 schedule breakdown: as a player, Drohan • Fully 40 of the Wildcats’ 51 scheduled games are against teams that finished in the top- spent three seasons as 100 of the RPI last season an assistant with Boston College before coming • Of those contests, 22 are against top-50 RPI opponents and 14 are versus squads that to NU as an assistant prior to the 1998 season. finished in the top-27 of the 2014 RPI She was promoted to head coach in 2002 after • NU is playing 24 of the other 63 teams that made the 2014 NCAA Tournament field the retirement of NFCA Hall of Fame Coach Amy Letourneau Named to Collegiate Player of the Year Watch List Sharon J. Drysdale. Below are several need-to- Fourth-year junior Amy Letourneau - know numbers about Kate and Caryl Drohans’ is one of 50 members of the 2015 USA Softball Colle Northwestern tenure: giate Player of the Year watch list despite being shut down for the majority of 2014 due to injury. Now back and full strength, Letourneau seeks to capitalize on an outstanding 2013 Wins at Northwestern, ranking both at the plate and in the circle. She continues a good run for NU with the award; at least second all-time in program one Wildcat has appeared on the watch list or been a finalist in nine of the last 10 years. 455 history. Four All-Big Ten, Five All-Region Wildcats Return for the 2015 Season NU lost a ton of talent to graduation a year ago, with four starters and an important pitcher Career winning percentage at .643 Northwestern moving on and taking a bevy of accolades with them. Old Mother Hubbard won’t exactly findBrianna the cupboard LeBeau (first-team bare in 2015, All-Big however, Ten; first-team with these All-Region) returning has award had a winners:slow start through the • Amy Letourneau (first-team All-Big Ten; second-team All-Region) is off to a slow start to 2015 NCAA Tournament appearances first nine games of 2015, but had a a good day against Cal that featured two hits including a home run.