Daenzer’s honor just added to the list of great individual achievements in a season where the team under achieved by finishing ninth in the MVC with an 8-12 record, and 22-22 overall, which was the program’s first non-winning season since 1984.

Pitcher Jamie Schuttek’s 14 wins is the fifth-best season total in Saluki history. The team’s 405 hits tied a school record while their 144 walks set a new SIUC mark, yet SIUC wound up as one of three teams that were not good enough to make the eight-team Missouri Valley Conference Tournament Championships.

We had our ups and downs, head coach Kay Brechtelsbauer said of the 1995 season. We had some outstanding individual performances. We had some grand slams and some one-hitters and two-hitters, but as a team we didn’t put it together.

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A finger could be pointed at the pitching staff, which set a school record for highest earned run average in a season with a 2.65 mark. But Brechtelsbauer sighted many more aspects as to why her team struggled.

At times we’d play defense well and then at times we’d make five, six, or seven errors, she said.

We we’re never able to put together a strong performance for a long period of time.

The team never came together.

It’s a disappointing season that we didn’t get into the tournament.

Saluki catcher Becky Lis said the talent was there, but the focus at times was not.

I think we sometimes didn’t come out ready to play and by the fifth inning we’d realize that we’d have to step up, she said, but by then it was too late.

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The shock of not making the playoffs hit the Salukis when they were informed that Southwest Missouri State (7-10 in MVC) had swept three games against Creighton and Wichita State, which were a combined 23-11.

That was the only