ALVA, Okla. – Newly appointed acting head coach Jill Webb is ready to put all three facets of the game together and earn some much needed wins that she knows her team desperately desires.

The improvement that her team has experienced over the short season is all well and good, but Webb feels confident that her team is ready to break through and put all that they have been working on together and enter the conference win column.

"In order to be competitive and win in this conference you have to have all three facets of the game in the offense, pitching and defensive side of the ball come together," Webb said, "The thing we've been missing the most out of those pieces is on the offensive side of the ball and we have the talent to do it we just have to have it all come together."

The struggling Ranger offense has had an early spark plug emerge however in junior Brittany Corrales. Corrales has continued lighting it up at the plate after earning her way into the starting line-up after solid non-conference play. Corrales went 4-for-10 this weekend in four losses against Arkansas Tech, and coach Webb says Corrales is really the catalyst that gets the whole line-up going and has proven that she can be a top of the line-up option as the season progresses.

The Northwestern softball team has also quickly addressed and fixed the defensive woes that plagued them early in the season. In the first two games of the season, the Rangers had 11 errors during the opening day of their first tournament in Lubbock, Texas, and have since worked hard on improving their strategy and fundamentals that will comfort the young pitching staff the Rangers possess. That defense was on display this past weekend at the Alva Rec. Center where Northwestern committed just one error over the course of four games against Arkansas Tech.

Coach Webb and her team will look to put all three areas of the game together this weekend in Durant, Okla. against the Savage Storm of Southeastern Oklahoma State. The Savage Storm (7-7, 1-3 in GAC) are led by veteran head coach Ron Faubion, and despite the slow start to their season, are used to competing at a high level in the GAC. Northwestern competed well with the Savage Storm last season despite dropping all four games, but will need to manufacture more runs against Southeastern starting pitcher Emily Cudd, who pitched well against the Rangers last season and enters this year's series with a 6-3 record.

Offensively the Storm rely on the combination of first basemen Jordan Jaymes and sophomore Destiny Riddle to put runs on the board. Both batters are currently hitting over .350 on the year and have combined for 27 RBI's throughout the season.

The Rangers will get play underway on the road with two double headers set for Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. and then again on Saturday afternoon at 12 p.m.