Northeastern State Softball plays the first conference games of the Cassidy Bowen era this week with doubleheaders at Washburn and Emporia State.

The RiverHawks enter with over a week of rest and wins in six of their last seven contests. Most recently, NSU swept Southern Nazarene at RiverHawks Park on Mar. 3, earning a 3-0 shutout win in the early game before a Jersey Retzloff RBI double clinched a 5-4 victory in the late game.

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