AMES, Iowa – Iowa State softball’s Sydney Malott was tabbed the Cyclone Membership Athlete of the Week after main ISU to a sequence victory at No. 17 Oklahoma State, its first highway sequence win over a ranked opponent in program historical past.
Malott blasted 4 residence runs throughout the three-game sequence, together with two lengthy balls in a 5-4 series-opening win over the Cowgirls in additional innings. It marked her first profession multi-home run recreation.
Together with Iowa State’s midweek contest towards Kansas Metropolis, Malott was one in every of simply two Cyclones to file a success in all 4 video games final week and led the workforce in homers (4), RBI (6), whole bases (18) and slugging proportion (1.385).
Malott helped ISU obtain a laundry record of historic feats together with her efficiency final week:
- Iowa State tied final 12 months’s win output with its twentieth victory of the season.
- The Cyclones earned their first ranked highway sequence win in program historical past.
- The workforce set this system mark for many convention wins in a season (9).
- ISU gained its third convention sequence of the 12 months – a single-season program excessive.
- The Cyclones gained a sequence at Oklahoma State for the primary time since 1983.
- Iowa State gained its fifth Huge 12 series-opening recreation of the season.
Iowa State is again in motion Tuesday, April 15 when it returns to the Cyclone Softball Complicated to tackle Iowa as a part of the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Collection. The Cyclones and Hawkeyes will do battle at 4 p.m. and the motion can be streamed dwell on ESPN+.
In regards to the Cyclone Membership
The Cyclone Membership spearheads the fundraising efforts for the Iowa State Athletic division and items of all sizes straight influence the lives of over 450 student-athletes at Iowa State. Annual Cyclone Membership items present ISU student-athletes the chance to compete of their sport on the highest degree, whereas making ready them to make the most of their Iowa State diploma as soon as their athletic careers have concluded. Iowa State Athletics doesn’t obtain any State or College funding to function, thereby making it one of many nation’s solely financially self-sufficient athletic packages.
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