HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. – Northern Kentucky's softball team will embark on a three-game home series against Robert Morris at Frank Ignatius Grein Softball Field on the heels of a 1-2 road trip to Cleveland State.

Impending inclement weather has changed the original schedule, precipitating the cancellation of Friday's game.
 
The Norse (14-20 overall, 4-8 Horizon League) and Colonials will play a doubleheader (1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.) as planned on Saturday, April 9. The teams also will play at noon Sunday. 
 
QUICK HITTERS
• NKU won an extra innings game in the first game of its doubleheader at Cleveland State. The Norse prevailed 4-3 in nine innings on Tuesday, April 5. It was the program's first extra-innings victory since Feb. 15, 2020 against Western Michigan, a game NKU won 7-6 in eight innings.
 
• NKU rank third in the Horizon League in fielding percentage (0.962) behind Youngstown State (0.967) and Oakand (0.966).
 
• NKU lost seven straight games earlier this season but snapped the skid with a 4-2 home victory over Western Illinois on March 15. Kendyl McKeough hit the first of two home runs in the bottom of the first inning and the Norse, bolstered by pitching, defense and McKeough's bat, prevailed.
 
• Northern Kentucky received 39 votes and was picked to finish sixth in the #HLSB preseason poll. Oakland received two first-place votes and claimed the top spot while second-place Youngstown State garnered five first-place votes.
 
• Kendyl McKeough is a leader on the team and in the Horizon League. The senior leads the conference in home runs (8) and doubles (10). She's second in hits (33) and RBI (20), and third in runs scored (20), at bats (102) and slugging percentage (.657). McKeough is fourth in walks (13) and fifth in OPS (1.054).
 
• Kendyl McKeough delivered NKU's most recent walk-off home run. Tennessee Tech scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning of their Blue Hose Invitational game Feb. 12 to knot the score at six. Enter Keough with the game-winning homer for the 6-5 Norse victory.
 
• Just three games into the season, Tatum Biddle matched an NKU record that had not been replicated since 2009. Biddle had two triples in the five-inning, 21-1 rout of South Carolina State in the Blue Hose Invitational Feb. 12. The last Norse player who had two or more triples in a game was Rose Broderick, who collected two triples against Bellarmine on April 25, 2009. Biddle leads the Horizon League with three triples this season.
 
• Ella LeMonier is fourth in the Horizon League in stolen bases with 11.
 
SCOUTING ROBERT MORRIS: The Colonials (17-12, 6-2 Horizon League) won their most recent outing, a 7-6 victory over Cleveland State on April 3, but have lost three of their last four games. The team enters the Norse series ranked third in the Horizon League behind Oakland and Cleveland State. Freshman Alaina Koutsogiani leads the league in runs scored (22) and is batting .313 with three home runs and 14 RBI. Redshirt senior Taylor Rhinehart (.322) has doubled seven times, good for a tie for third in the Horizon League.