Ashland, Ore. – The No. 2 seeded Saint Xavier University softball team (37-8/16-0 CCAC) saw its 2025 season come to an end Wednesday afternoon in the NAIA Opening Round Ashland Bracket after being eliminated by No. 5 The College of Idaho by a score of 4-2 in Ashland, Ore. Sophomore outfielder Aubrey Wroble (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point) finished the game 2-for-3 with a pair of base hits. Wroble became the first player in program history to bat over .500 in a season (minimum 100 at-bats) collecting a .516 average in 155 at-bats (80-for-155) and she became just the third player for the Cougars, and the fourth time overall, to come away with 80 or more hits in a season. Wroble joins a pair of SXU Hall of Famers in Georgia McGuire (1985-88) who had 80 hits in 1988 and Colleen Kilduff (2003-06), who had 82 hits in 2003 and the team record of 86 hits in 2004.

It was the fourth time in the last five seasons that Saint Xavier has finished the season with 35 or more wins, the best stretch for the school since a run of five consecutive seasons from 2012-2016. Head coach Erin Mollohan has guided the Cougars to the NAIA Opening Round seven times in her nine seasons at the helm, missing out only in her first season as head coach in 2017 and the COVID-19 Pandemic cancelled season when SXU was 19-3.

• Junior infielder Kaitlyn Wright (Chicago, Ill./Marist) went 1-for-3 with an RBI and a stolen base.
• Junior outfielder Haley Matlock (Indianapolis, Ind./Southport) picked up an RBI despite going 0-for-3.
• Freshman infielder Danielle Goodman (Poplar Grove, Ill./North Boone) had a hit in three at-bats.
• Sophomore pinch-hitter Yalayzah Lovan (Pleasant Hill, Iowa/Dowling Catholic) clubbed her sixth double of the season.
• Sophomore pitcher Hailey Wesner (Oak Forest, Ill./Oak Forest) made the start (5-2), lasting 3.0 innings with four hits allowed, four earned runs, a walk and a strikeout.
• Sophomore pitcher Lily Strand (Evergreen Park, Ill./Saint Louis/Evergreen Park) worked 4.0 innings of relief, allowing just one hit, one walk and striking out three batters.
• The Coyotes took a 1-0 lead in the top of the 1^st on a two-out RBI double.
• College of Idaho added three more runs in the top of the 4^th on another RBI double and a two-run home run.
• In the bottom of the 6^th, Matlock tallied her 27^th RBI of the year, a new career-high, to get SXU on the board with an RBI groundout.
• Wright recorded her 24^th RBI of the season on an RBI fielder's choice in the bottom of the 7^th, however Saint Xavier popped out and flew out to end the game.

No. 18 Saint Xavier (37-8/16-0 CCAC) wraps up the 2025 season with its second consecutive Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) regular season championship and its five straight CCAC Tournament title.