LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Oregon’s Katie Flannery and Texas’ Tegan Kavan captured the Division I Louisville Slugger/NFCA Player and Wilson/NFCA Pitcher of the Week honors for contests played March 10-16. It marked the second nod this season for Kavan.
Flannery keyed the eighth-ranked Ducks to a Big Ten series win over Washington and a 3-1 week. Overall, she hit .692 with a double, triple, four home runs, 12 RBI, nine runs scored and a 1.846 slugging percentage. Flannery homered twice and drove in five runs in Oregon’s 9-0 series-opening win. The sophomore third baseman left the yard again and registered three more RBI in a game-two win. Flannery was also a double short of the cycle in a win over Abilene Christian in which she launched a three-run homer and scored twice in a school-record 15-run first innings.
Kavan posted a 3-0 mark with a 0.93 ERA, 19 strikeouts and five walks over the course of three appearances last week. She picked up both wins in a doubleheader sweep at then-No. 3 Florida on March 15. In 8.2 innings of work, Kavan surrendered just one earned run and one extra-base hit against the Gators’ top-ranked scoring offense. She went 4.2 innings in a game-one start, allowing two runs, one earned, on six hits with five punchouts and two walks. Kavan added four innings of relief in game two (4 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 3 K, 0 BB). In her other start of the week, the junior struck out 11 and allowed two runs, one earned, on four hits in 6.1 innings at new-No. 25 Ohio State.
The awards are voted on by the NFCA Division I Top 25 Poll Committee, which features one member head coach from each of the NCAA’s 31 conferences.
Selected Top Performances
Zoe Adebayo, Memphis - .556, 5 H, 5 R, 2 2B, 3B, 4 RBI, 6 BB, .688 OBP, 1.00 SLG; Maci Bergeron, LSU - .462, 6 H, 2B, 3 HR, 9 RBI, 5 R, 1.231 SLG; Sydney Berzon, LSU – 3-0, 0.91 ERA, 2 ER, 9 K, 12 H, 15.1 IP, 2 CG; Kenzie Brown, Arizona State – 2-0, 0.00 ERA, SHO, 9 H, 4 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 19 K; NiJaree Canady, Texas Tech – 2-0, 0.00 ERA, 18 K, 2 BB, 14 IP; Raelin Chaffin, Mississippi State - 3-0, 1.24 ERA, 17 K, 4 BB, 2 CG; Michelle Chatfield, Virginia Tech - .467, 4 HR, 7 RBI, 1.267 SLG, .500 OBP; Macey Cintron, Clemson - .600, 6 H, 3 2B, 3 RBI, BB, 2 R, .900 SLG, .636 OBP, 0 K; Bri Ellis, Arkansas - .500, 5 H, 2 HR; 4 RBI, 4 R, BB, .545 OBP, 1.100 SLG; Gabbie Garcia, Oklahoma - .538, 7 H, 2B, 3 HR, 8 RBI, 6 R; Aliya Garroway, Saint Francis (Pa.) - .636, 2B, HR (walk-off grand slam), 6 RBI; Lyndsey Grein, Oregon – 1-1, SV, 1.58 ERA, 18 K, 3 BB, 13.1 IP; Miali Guachino, Ole Miss – 2-0, SV, 0.00 ERA, 20 K, 3BB, 3 H, 0 R, 12 IP: Allison Heffley, George Washington - .875 (7-for-8), 3 2B, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 12 R, 6 BB, SB, HBP, .933 OBP, 2.000 SLG; Maya Johnson, Belmont – 3-0, 0.95 ERA, 3 CG, 2 SHO, 50 K, 1 BB, 11 H, 21 IP; Billie Kerwood, Delaware – 4-0, 0.31 ERA, 35 K, 9BB, 8 H, R, 1 XBH; Shelby Kunkel, Miami (Ohio) - .667, 10 H, 3 2B, 2 HR, 10 RBI, 5 R, 1.267 SLG, 2 BB, SB; Sam Landry, Oklahoma – 4 App/2GS, 2-0, 2 SV, 0.47 ERA, 15 K, 2 BB, 15 IP; Emma Lemley, Virginia Tech – 2-0, 1.65 ERA, 20 K, 7 BB, 17 IP, fourth no-hitter of season at Kentucky (9 K, BB); Presley Limbaugh, Kansas - .600, 6 H, 2 2B, 3B, 1.00 SLG, 4 R, RBI; Juju O’Brien, Columbia - .700, 7 H, R, BB, 3-for-3 with two outs; Anna Reed, George Washington – 1-0, 0.00 ERA, SHO, 3 H, .115 opp BA, 8 IP; Sierra Sacco, Mississippi State - .571, 2 2B, 5 R, RBI, 5 BB, .684 OBP, 3-3 SB, 14-game hitting streak; Mia Scott, Texas - .600, 9 H, 2B, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 2 BB, 6R, .1.067 SLG, .647 OBP; Sophie Sun, Harvard - .667, 10 H, 2 2B, HR, 5 RBI, 7 R, .688 OBP, 1.000 SLG, four multi-hit games; Taylor Tinsley, UCLA – 1-0, 0.00 RA, SV, 11 K, 0 BB, 6 IP; Aby Vieira, Clemson - .571, 4 H, 2 2B, HR, 4 RBI, R, BB, 1.286 SLG, .625 OBP; Brianne Weiss, Notre Dame – 1-1, 1.60 ERA, 14 K, 13.1 IP; Jordan Woolery, UCLA - .556, 5 H, 2B, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 5 R, 4 BB, 1.333 SLG; Tatum Wright, East Texas A&M - .857, 2B, 3B, 2 HR, 8 RBI, 2 BB, .889 OBP, 2.143 SLG.
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