Sunrise News
Wed, May 12, 2010 - [Softball]

The Sunrise Conference recently announced its postseason award winners for softball at the conference tournament in Boston. 

Senior catcher Jackie Streeter of Fisher College was named the Player of the Year for the second straight season.  SUNY Canton head coach Diane Para was named Coach of the Year.  Freshman pitcher Tina DeLuca of SUNY Canton was named Rookie of the Year and SUNY Canton and Vermont Technical College each received the Team Sportsmanship Award.

Streeter batted .445 and she led the conference in RBIs (47), runs (41), slugging percentage (.824), and triples (4) and tied for the lead in doubles (13), home runs (8) and hits (53).

DeLuca posted a conference-leading 3.75 earned-run average and she also led the league in opponents batting average (.312) and walks allowed (10).  She struck out 46 batters in 100 innings.

Para led the Roos to the regular season and conference tournament championships and a 9-3 conference mark.

Streeter and DeLuca were joined on the all-conference team by Carolina Olivares, Jenifer Shaw, Heather Lottie, and Vickie Lynch of SUNY Canton; Amanda Davis, Brittany Calderon, Mika Wilson, Debbie Fuller, and Michelle Olivario of Fisher; and Nicole Russell, Danielle Humphrey, Brittany Humphrey, Lainey Herring, and Desiree Smith of the University of Maine at Presque Isle; and Jamie Allard of Vermont Technical College.

Olivares, a junior shortstop, led the conference in batting with a .529 average.  She was third in slugging percentage (.771), fourth in RBIs (27), and tied for eighth in doubles (7).  She also had two home runs and two triples and scored 26 runs.  Shaw, a junior centerfielder, batted .427 and was fourth in doubles with 10.  She had three home runs, 29 runs, 20 RBIs and a slugging percentage of .680.  Lottie, a freshman second baseman, was fourth in batting .474 and she was second in runs (33), third in RBIs (30), fourth in slugging percentage (.718) and tied for eighth in doubles (7).  Lynch, a freshman third baseman, batted .406 and was tied for sixth in doubles (8), eighth in slugging percentage (.578) and eighth in RBIs (21). 
 
Davis, a freshman outfielder,  was tied for first in doubles (8) and home runs (8) and second in slugging percentage (.810) and RBIs (42) and third in runs (32) and fifth in batting (.457).  Fuller, a sophomore utility player, was tied for fourth in runs (31), sixth in RBIs (22) and 10th in batting (.390).  Calderon, a sophomore pitcher and first baseman, batted .339 with 29 runs and 18 RBIs and she posted a 5.85 earned-run average with 42 strikeouts in 95 innings.  Wilson, a freshman pitcher, batted .313 with 22 RBIs, 20 runs and six doubles and on the mound she had a 5.25 earned-run average and 136 strikeouts in 118 innings.  Olivario, a junior outfielder, batted .308 with 28 runs, 20 RBIs and nine doubles.

Russell, a senior pitcher, recorded a 4.91 earned-run average with 50 strikeouts in 141 innings.  She also batted .299.  Brittany Humphrey, a junior shortstop, was third in doubles (11) and seventh in slugging percentage (.613) and batted .415 with 20 runs and 18 RBIs.  Herring, a freshman pitcher and outfielder, was 11th in batting (.354) with 14 runs and two triples and she had 19 strikeouts in 49 innings.  Smith, a sophomore infielder, batted .315 with 25 runs and Danielle Humphrey, a junior catcher, batted .297 with eight doubles and 17 runs.

Allard, a freshman infielder, batted .281 with seven runs and a double.
 
 
 
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