University of St. Thomas Athletics
Friday, May 2
St. Paul, Minn. / South Field
12:00 p.m. Central
vs
North Dakota State
Photo by: Kylie Macziewski
Lots on the line this weekend as Softball hosts North Dakota State
5/1/2025 1:09:00 PM | Softball
Tommies will clinch a share of the regular season Summit League Championship with two wins
ST. PAUL, Minn. – St. Thomas Softball (31-16 overall, 12-3 Summit League) has won a DI program-high 11 games in a row and currently sits in first place atop of Summit League. The Tommies enter the weekend with eyes on the prize against the North Dakota State Bison (18-28, 5-10).
The Summit League series has a doubleheader scheduled for Friday, April 2 at 12:00 and 2:30 p.m. and the final game scheduled for Saturday, April 3 at 11:00 a.m. at South Field in St. Paul.
The Bison are currently in sixth place of the seven teams in the Summit League and are coming off a series win (2-1) over the South Dakota Coyotes at home last weekend. They took games one and two each by 3-0 scores before falling in game three, 5-2. Their three other wins over conference opponents have come against Kansas City (two games) and North Dakota.
NDSU holds the all-time series over the Tommies, 8-1 and has never lost a series to the Purple. The Bison have won six games in a row by a combined score of 49-15 since April 23, 2023. The Toms have never won a game against NDSU at home.
Senior, Chloe Woldruff leads the stampede this season on the offensive side of the ball. She is slashing .314/.379/.398 with 37 hits, five doubles, one triple, one home run, and 17 RBI. Summit League All-Second Teamer, Bella Dean leads the Bison with six home runs. The pitching load has been shared primarily between Savy Williams and Piper Reed. Williams is 6-11 in 96 innings with a 4.16 ERA and Reed is 5-8 in 79 innings with a 5.58 ERA.
What's at stake
Picked to finish fourth in the preseason Summit League Coaches' Poll, the Tommies are in first place heading into the final weekend of the season and two wins away from clinching a share of the Summit League regular season title with the Omaha Mavericks. A third consecutive conference series sweep this weekend will clinch sole possession of the conference crown.
St. Thomas has been marching toward the top of the Summit since joining the league in 2022. The Toms moved into third place at the end of last season after back-to-back sixth place conference finishes in 2022 and 2023.
First Inning Dominance
The Tommies have outscored opponents 70-27 in the first inning this season. They are 20-5 when scoring in the first inning and 24-9 when preventing the opposing team from scoring in the opening frame.
St. Thomas has also outscored opponents in every inning except the sixth this season but that +43 run differential in the first is by far the largest of any inning.
North Dakota State has been outscored 45-32 in the first in 2025.
Streaks!
The Tommies have won 11 games in a row, the longest win streak of the DI Era. That win streak is tied for the third longest in the country with Marist (41-7-1). Saint Louis (29-19) is in second with 14 wins in a row and Grand Canyon's (40-6) 17 game streak is the longest in the nation.
Abbi Stierlen currently leads the Tommies with a 15-game hitting streak, the longest of her career. Laken Lienhard has hit in 14 straight and Ella Cook is third on the team with 10 consecutive games.
Lienhard leads the team with a 21 game on-base streak followed by Stierlen's 15, Avery Wukawitz's 13 and Ella Cook's 12.
History for Kaitlyn Raymond
Senior right fielder, Kaitlyn Raymond, has played in 197 of the Tommies' 200 DI games since the start of her career in 2022. Her 197 games started are not only a DI program record but are tied for the ALL-TIME program record with Rachel Suter (2016-19). If she plays even one of the final three games this season, she will be the all-time leader, all without a single game of playoff softball due to NCAA transition regulation.
She will leave the program as the leader in (DI Era) games started (197), at-bats (604), and hits (187). She will finish second in runs scored (109), doubles (26), triples (6), total bases (225), walks (60), and stolen bases (34).
Her slashline is also top-10 in the DI era: .310/.375/.373 with an OPS of .748.
So Long Seniors
Jenna Kuhn
Adrianna Young
Christina Crawford
Kaitlyn Raymond
The Summit League series has a doubleheader scheduled for Friday, April 2 at 12:00 and 2:30 p.m. and the final game scheduled for Saturday, April 3 at 11:00 a.m. at South Field in St. Paul.
The Bison are currently in sixth place of the seven teams in the Summit League and are coming off a series win (2-1) over the South Dakota Coyotes at home last weekend. They took games one and two each by 3-0 scores before falling in game three, 5-2. Their three other wins over conference opponents have come against Kansas City (two games) and North Dakota.
NDSU holds the all-time series over the Tommies, 8-1 and has never lost a series to the Purple. The Bison have won six games in a row by a combined score of 49-15 since April 23, 2023. The Toms have never won a game against NDSU at home.
Senior, Chloe Woldruff leads the stampede this season on the offensive side of the ball. She is slashing .314/.379/.398 with 37 hits, five doubles, one triple, one home run, and 17 RBI. Summit League All-Second Teamer, Bella Dean leads the Bison with six home runs. The pitching load has been shared primarily between Savy Williams and Piper Reed. Williams is 6-11 in 96 innings with a 4.16 ERA and Reed is 5-8 in 79 innings with a 5.58 ERA.
What's at stake
Picked to finish fourth in the preseason Summit League Coaches' Poll, the Tommies are in first place heading into the final weekend of the season and two wins away from clinching a share of the Summit League regular season title with the Omaha Mavericks. A third consecutive conference series sweep this weekend will clinch sole possession of the conference crown.
St. Thomas has been marching toward the top of the Summit since joining the league in 2022. The Toms moved into third place at the end of last season after back-to-back sixth place conference finishes in 2022 and 2023.
First Inning Dominance
The Tommies have outscored opponents 70-27 in the first inning this season. They are 20-5 when scoring in the first inning and 24-9 when preventing the opposing team from scoring in the opening frame.
St. Thomas has also outscored opponents in every inning except the sixth this season but that +43 run differential in the first is by far the largest of any inning.
North Dakota State has been outscored 45-32 in the first in 2025.
Streaks!
The Tommies have won 11 games in a row, the longest win streak of the DI Era. That win streak is tied for the third longest in the country with Marist (41-7-1). Saint Louis (29-19) is in second with 14 wins in a row and Grand Canyon's (40-6) 17 game streak is the longest in the nation.
Abbi Stierlen currently leads the Tommies with a 15-game hitting streak, the longest of her career. Laken Lienhard has hit in 14 straight and Ella Cook is third on the team with 10 consecutive games.
Lienhard leads the team with a 21 game on-base streak followed by Stierlen's 15, Avery Wukawitz's 13 and Ella Cook's 12.
History for Kaitlyn Raymond
Senior right fielder, Kaitlyn Raymond, has played in 197 of the Tommies' 200 DI games since the start of her career in 2022. Her 197 games started are not only a DI program record but are tied for the ALL-TIME program record with Rachel Suter (2016-19). If she plays even one of the final three games this season, she will be the all-time leader, all without a single game of playoff softball due to NCAA transition regulation.
She will leave the program as the leader in (DI Era) games started (197), at-bats (604), and hits (187). She will finish second in runs scored (109), doubles (26), triples (6), total bases (225), walks (60), and stolen bases (34).
Her slashline is also top-10 in the DI era: .310/.375/.373 with an OPS of .748.
So Long Seniors
Jenna Kuhn
- Native of Apple Valley, Minnesota
- Graduating Summa Cum Laude Major: Civil Engineering Minor: Sustainability
- Multi-time selection to the Summit League Commissioner's List and Honor Roll
- Played in 39 games, 10 hits (3 home runs), 4 walks, 6 RBI, and .894 OPS. All three of her home runs were pinch hit home runs and her one in 2023 was a walk-off to defeat Western Illinois, 8-0. She is the DI program leader in pinch-hit home runs.
Adrianna Young
- Native of Stone Lake, Wisconsin
- Major: Exercise Science Minor: Theology – Beginning doctorate program at UCCS this June for Physical Therapy
- Multi-time selection to the Summit League Commissioner's List and Honor Roll
- Played in 75 games with 33 hits, 9 doubles, 1 triple, 1 HR, 17 RBI, 47 total bases, and 7 stolen bases. She set career high marks in nearly every statistical category this season making over 31 starts in right field. Her 32 career runs scored are 10th most in DI program history.
Christina Crawford
- Native of Elkhorn, Wisconsin
- Major: Biology Minors: Sustainability and Theology
- Multi-time selection to the Summit League Honor Roll
- Played in 86 games and pitched in 77 Finished 10th in DI program history with 5 home runs. Leaves the program as the DI record holder in: Pitching appearances (77), games started (58), innings pitched (351.1), and strikeouts (239). She also holds the single game strikeout record with 19 against Evansville her freshman year.
Kaitlyn Raymond
- Native of Chicago, Illinois
- Major: Communications Minors: Family Studies and Theology
- Multi-time selection to the Summit League Commissioner List and Honor Roll
- First-Team All-Summit League in 2024
- Set the all-time (yes, D3 included) record in games played at 200. KK has played in all but three games during the Tommies' DI era. She leaves the program as the DI leader in at-bats (604) and hits (187) and second in runs scored (109), doubles (26), triples (6), total bases (225), walks (60), and stolen bases (34).
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