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Four Bruins earn honors from Northwest Conference |
Four Bruin softball
players — Kayla Winkler, Nikki Morrison, Kerstyn Tsuruda and Ashley
Olson — recently received All-Northwest Conference honors from the
league’s eight coaches.
Winkler was named to the conference second team as a utility
player. Morrison, Tsuruda and Olson were honorable mention
selections — Morrison and Tsuruda as utility players and Olson as a
first baseman. It was the first All-Conference honors for each of
them.
Winkler, a senior from McMinnville, was George Fox’s No. 1 starting
pitcher and played either second base or center field when not on
the mound. She posted a 5-16 pitching record with one save, a 4.58
ERA and 124 strikeouts in 130 innings, tossing 15 complete games in
21 starts. She led the league in starts, was second in innings
pitched, and was third in strikeouts.
She batted .287 with 31 hits, seven doubles, four home runs, 12
RBI, 12 runs scored and a .463 slugging percentage. She was the
Bruins’ leader in hits, home runs, RBI, and slugging; she tied for
first in doubles and was second in batting and runs.
Morrison, a senior from Salem, played third base and relief pitched
for the Bruins. She batted .243 with 26 hits, five doubles, 10 RBI
and 13 runs scored, ranking first on the team in runs, tied for
second in RBI, and third in hits. She committed six errors and
ranked third in the NWC in assists with 87. On the mound, she
appeared in seven games to earn an 0-1 record and a 4.30 ERA in 14.2
innings.
Tsuruda, a sophomore from Waimanalo, Hawaii, played catcher and
also saw occasional time at second and shortstop. She batted .222
with 22 hits, seven doubles, two triples, seven RBI and 10 runs
scored. She was the team leader and tied for fourth in the league in
triples; she tied for the team lead in doubles.
Olson, a freshman from Silverton, batted a team-leading .289 with
28 hits, seven doubles, two home runs, 10 RBI, seven runs scored and
a .423 slugging percentage. She tied for the team lead in doubles,
was second in hits and slugging, and tied for second in home runs
and RBI.
The Bruins were 7-29 overall under third-year coach Mark Vergets,
winning six more than the year before, and climbed to seventh in the
conference at 5-23. |
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From
May 9, 2007, Newberg Graphic
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