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Post by enarotsky on Mar 8, 2011 16:39:54 GMT -5
Hawks in College!!
Several Homer Hawks have started their seasons with a bang.
Marcy Medina is a freshman at Saginaw Valley State University. She has been batting 3rd or 4th with a batting average of .400 and a team leading 8 RBI’s. She also has a home run for the 6-2 Cardinals.
Kelsey Jankowski is a freshman at the University of Southern Indiana. She has 3 wins and 1 loss as a pitcher and leads her team in wins, ERA, and batting average against.
Lauren Wells is a freshman at Eastern Michigan University. She is 1-0 with her win a dominating 4-0 victory. She struck out 9 pitching a 4 hitter.
Hillary Hubert is a sophomore at Dartmouth University where she was first team all Ivy League and freshman of the year last season. She is currently batting .313.
I know they are giving their parents a thrill as they are for their Hawk coach.
Eliot Narotsky
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Post by Homer Hawks Site Administrator on Mar 8, 2011 23:26:42 GMT -5
AWESOME JOB GIRLS!!!! Way to put all your years of work to action!!! CONGRATS!
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Post by Homer Hawks Site Administrator on Apr 5, 2011 14:19:04 GMT -5
More Hawks excelling in college!!!
Saints Win Twice and Lose Once on Final Day of Spring Fling
Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 10:16 PM - [Softball]
Junior Jenny Festin was 6-for-8 with a run scored and 2 RBI in Saturday's gamesJOLIET - University of St. Francis earned a win in a game suspended due to rain on Friday and then split two more contests on Saturday as the Saints completed a 2-2 weekend at their own USF Spring Fling softball tournament at the Inwood Sports Complex.
USF defeated University of Saint Francis (Ind.), 9-8, in nine innings, dropped an 11-5 game to Indiana Wesleyan University and then came back to beat Harris-Stowe State University (MO), 5-4, in eight innings.
The Saints (9-10) won a topsy-turvy game with Saint Francis (4-11) that was resumed Saturday morning after rain stopped play on Friday afternoon. USF started Saturday with a 7-6 lead in the top of the fifth but found itself trailing 8-7 heading into the bottom of the seventh.
The Saints knotted the score in the seventh on a sacrifice fly from freshman first baseman Nicole Norris (Plainfield North H.S./Plainfield, IL). USF then earned the win in the second extra inning when freshman right fielder Natalie Ward (Marian Catholic H.S./Crete, IL) scampered home from third and slid under the tag on a fielder's choice ground ball off the bat of senior catcher C.J. Rupsis (Bolingbrook H.S./Bolingbrook, IL).
Senior pitcher Kim Malacina (Lockport H.S./Homer Glen, IL) pitched all nine innings in the two-day affair and moved her mark to 6-1.
USF led Indiana Wesleyan (14-10) by a 5-0 score through four innings but the wheels fell off for the Saints in the fifth. Indiana Wesleyan sent 14 batters to the plate and scored nine runs on six hits with the help of three USF errors.
The Saints took the early lead with a single run in the top of the first, three more in the third and one in the fifth. Senior center fielder Kaylee Shell (Wilmington H.S./Wilmington, IL) led the USF attack with three hits and three runs scored. Freshman second baseman Susan Newton (Lemont H.S./Lemont, IL) added a pair of hits as well.
St. Francis trailed Harris-Stowe (3-9) until the bottom of the fifth inning in the final game of the day. USF scored its first run in the first inning on an RBI single by Ward. The Saints trailed 2-1 before tallying three runs in the fifth. Junior first baseman Brittany Bochenek (Lockport H.S./Lockport, IL) drove home the first two of those runs with a single and junior third baseman Jenny Festin (Lockport H.S./Lockport, IL) got the third run home with another single.
USF freshman pitcher Scarlett Pucci (Willows Academy/Park Ridge, IL) enjoyed her finest outing of the season but left with a no-decision as HSSU rallied to score single runs in both the sixth and seventh innings to tie the score. Pucci allowed only six hits and was charged with four earned runs in six-plus innings.
The Saints held the Hornets scoreless in the top of the eighth and then won the game in their half of the inning. The winning run scored when freshman catcher Lindsey Rohan's (Benet Academy/Lisle, IL) two-out deep fly to left field was dropped by the Harris-Stowe left fielder and scored pinch-runner Shell.
Festin and junior second baseman Megan O'Brien (Richards H.S./Oak Lawn, IL) led the USF attack with three hits each.
The Saints play a twin bill at Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference leader and rival Olivet Nazarene University on Tuesday afternoon in Bourbonnais.
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Post by Homer Hawks Site Administrator on Apr 11, 2011 9:57:07 GMT -5
Loyola Rolls To 8-0 Victory Over Valparaiso To Claim Series
Keali Engelkens goes 2 for 3 with three RBI to lead the Ramblers
April 10, 2011
Box Score
CHICAGO - A balanced Loyola University Chicago (15-15, 6-3 Horizon) offense tallied 11 hits off of a pair of Valparaiso (22-15-1, 5-4 Horizon) pitchers to help the Ramblers to an 8-0 victory in five innings in the rubber game of a three-game series this afternoon at Loyola Softball Park. The Ramblers have registered 25 hits, 22 of them singles, in the last two contests and took two of three games from the Crusaders this weekend.
On an unseasonably warm and sunny afternoon, with temperatures in the 80s, the Loyola offense wasted no time heating up as it plated two runs in the first inning and never looked back to move back to the .500 mark this season.
Brooke Andresen led off the bottom half of the first inning with a bunt single and after Bridget Lally was hit by a pitch, Andresen scampered around to score on a Valpo throwing error on Keali Engelkens' sacrifice bunt attempt. The Ramblers added another run in the inning when Lally stole home on a double steal attempt to give the hosts a 2-0 lead after an inning of action.
Loyola put the game out of reach with three runs in the second inning, the big hit coming in the form of a two-run single off the bat of shortstop Lauren Arceneaux.
With a five-run cushion, Loyola freshman Brittany Gardner was able to relax and wound up holding Valparaiso hitless until KC Boldt led off the fourth inning with a base hit right back up the middle.
Valpo threatened in the fifth when Jill Jacobson led off with a single and Amanda Wisniewski drew a walk to give the Crusaders runners at first and second with no outs. However, Engelkens, who has been sensational in relief this week, spelled Gardner in the circle and slammed the door on the Valpo rally to preserve the Ramblers' 5-0 lead.
Engelkens continued her torrid hitting today, registering a pair of hits and in seven at-bats this season, she has recorded a staggering six hits (.857). Her triple with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth drove in three runs and provided the margin needed to invoke the run rule.
Tori Spears, who was making her first start since March 26, went 3 for 3 to lead the Loyola offense, which saw three other players tally two hits apiece. Hitting out of the leadoff slot, Andresen went 2 for 4 and scored three runs and Engelkens and Arceneaux tallied two hits each. Lally had a single, was hit by a pitch twice and scored three times.
Gardner yielded only two hits in 4.0 innings to earn her 10th win of the spring.
Loyola is back in action on Wednesday, April 13, when it plays a single game at Notre Dame.
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