CHICAGO – In a series that started last week on March 31, and the remaining games were twice postponed due to weather, the Saint Xavier University softball team (26-9/15-0 CCAC) swept Olivet Nazarene University (Ill.) in Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) action Monday afternoon at the SXU Softball Field in Chicago, Ill. Last Tuesday, the Cougars came away with a 15-1 triumph, scoring 10 runs in the top of the 6^th, in six innings in Bourbonnais, Ill. The win gave head coach Erin Mollohan her 300^th victory as head coach at SXU, with three games played over the weekend, she now has a 305-115 record for a .726 winning percentage since taking over the program in 2017 after she served as an assistant coach from 2013-16 for Saint Xavier.

Concluding the series on Monday, sophomore designated player Isabelle Poortenga (Dyer, Ind./Lewis/Lake Central) recorded three RBI and Lily Strand (Evergreen Park, Ill./Saint Louis/Evergreen Park) logged her 11^th complete game of the season in a 5-2 win in game one. Sophomore pitcher Payton Antkiewicz (Dyer, Ind./Hanover Central) tossed her first shutout of the year, allowing just two hits, and senior infielder Mallory O'Connor (Bourbonnais, Ill./Olivet Nazarene/Bishop McNamara) knocked in two runs in a 4-0 victory in the second contest.

Junior infielder Aubrey Wroble (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point) reached a career milestone in the first game on Monday, becoming the 17^th player in team history to collect 200 or more career hits. She joined senior outfielder Haley Matlock (Indianapolis, Ind./Southport) in hitting the 200-hit milestone, who did so Friday afternoon. Wroble added two more hits in game two, giving her 202 in her time with the Cougars. She is the program's all-time leader in batting average (min. 250 at-bats) with a .495 average (202-for-408).

Game One:

• O'Connor was 3-for-5 with four RBI, two runs scored and a double.
• Sophomore infielder Danielle Goodman (Poplar Grove, Ill./North Boone) clubbed a home run, posting three RBI and was hit-by-pitch, going 1-for-3.
• Wroble went 3-for-4 with three runs, an RBI and a stolen base.
• Matlock finished 2-for-4 with three runs scored, two RBI and a steal.
• Senior catcher Morgan Natanek (Palos Heights, Ill./Stagg) had two hits in three at-bats with an RBI and a run.
• Senior outfielder Fiona Crane (Evergreen Park, Ill./Northern Illinois/Mother McAuley) swiped two bases with an RBI and a run scored while going 1-for-4.
• Strand threw a complete game, logging 6.0 innings with three hits, one earned run, two walks and eight strikeouts.
• Redshirt sophomore infielder Jazmyn Casas (Berwyn, Ill./Illinois-Chicago/Taft) gave SXU a 1-0 lead in the top of the 1^st with an RBI single.
• The Tigers tied the game in the bottom of the 2^nd with a home run over the wall in left center.
• Goodman belted her third home run of the 2026 campaign, a two-run shot, to put Saint Xavier back on top, 3-1, in the top of the 4^th.
• Goodman picked up an RBI after a hit-by-pitch and sophomore outfielder Natalie Gomez (Oak Forest, Ill./Lewis/Tinley Park) drew a bases-loaded walk in the top of the 5^th.
• The Cougars rallied for 10 runs in the top of the 6^th. O'Connor hit a two-run single, Poortenga drove in a run on a fielder's choice, Natanek sliced an RBI base hit, Crane added an RBI on a fielder's choice, Wroble legged out an RBI infield single, Matlock laced a two-run single and O'Connor book-ended the frame with another two-run base hit.

Game Two:

• Wroble finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI.
• Poortenga was 2-for-3 overall with a double.
• Strand (14-5) went the distance, throwing 7.0 innings and scattering five hits with two earned runs, four walks and five strikeouts.
• ONU took an early 1-0 lead in the top of the 1^st on a sacrifice fly.
• Poortenga lined a bases-clearing three-run double to the gap in left center in the bottom of the 3^rd.
• Wroble's 200^th career hit scored Crane, and Casas collected her team-leading 47^th RBI of the year on a base hit back up the middle to extend the advantage to 5-1 in the bottom of the 5^th.
• Olivet Nazarene loaded the bases in the top of the 7^th with two outs. A base hit brought in a run, however Crane ended the game when she threw out a runner at home.

Game Three:

• O'Connor was 1-for-3 with a run scored.
• Poortenga had two hits in three trips to the plate with an RBI.
• Wroble went 2-for-2 with a run.
• Matlock logged two hits with a run scored and a steal, going 2-for-3.
• Antkiewicz (10-3) walked eight batters with three strikeouts in 7.0 innings of work.
• In the bottom of the 3^rd, O'Connor lined a two-run single back up the middle and Poortenga followed with an RBI single to left.
• Wroble put down a sacrifice bunt, but an error allowed freshman pinch-runner Alex Tarala (Frankfort, Ill./Lincoln-Way East) to score from first base in the bottom of the 4^th.

Saint Xavier (26-9/15-0 CCAC) begins a three-game series with Mount Mary University (Wis.) on Friday, April 10. The CCAC contest is scheduled for a 2:00 pm start. The series shifts to Milwaukee, Wis. with a doubleheader starting at 12:00 pm on Saturday, April 11.