On Sunday, the Wildcats will host the league’s top hitter
as Western Oregon’s Amanda Evola will bring a .420
average to town.
Individual
Triples
Triples Per Game
Saves
Hit By Pitch
Sacrifice Flies
Sacrifice Flies
Sacrifice Flies
Evola has had two double-digit hitting streaks this spring
(11 and 10). The latter streak is current. The Wolves are
also led in hitting by Kelsie Gardner with a .395 average.
MSUB will face the GNAC’s top-ranked pitcher in its series
as Simon Fraser’s Kelsie Hawkins leads the GNAC with a
1.51 ERA and a 6-1 record.
Central Washington: Andrea Hamada had seven hits in 11
at bats and Austin Wilkerson had eight hits in 13 at bats as
the Wildcats batted .424 in their four-game sweep of
Northwest Nazarene. Both players had three doubles,
Hamada also had a home run. In the circle, Lindsey
Kamphuis allowed just 12 hits and four runs in 14 innings
and Kiana Wood surrendered just seven hits and five runs
in 11 innings.
Western Washington’s Alicia Fine takes a .382 average to
Nampa for its four-game series with Northwest Nazarene.
Freshman Makinlee Sellevold has an 8-3 record and a 2.64
ERA. She has thrown a conference-best 85 innings in 14
appearances, an average of 6 innings per start.
Montana State Billings: After going 3-5 on an eight-game
conference road trip, the Yellowjackets were idle last
weekend. Near the midway point of the season, the
Yellowjackets rank fourth in the GNAC in batting (.306),
pitching (4.82) and fielding (.952). They are tied with Saint
Martin’s for the most home runs with 15.
Northwest Nazarene will be hoping to end a 10-game
losing s treak, Whitney Carlton is NNU’s top hitter batting
.354. She is tied for fourth in the GNAC with three home
runs.
Following this weekend all seven GNAC teams will head for
California next week to compete in the annual Cal State
Stanislaus Tournament of Champions.
Northwest Nazarene: Whitney Carlton and Alyssa
Nitschelm each had four hits to lead the Crusaders in their
series against CWU. Twenty-one of NNUJ’s 23 hits in the
series were singles. The only extra base hits were home
runs by Carlton and Ashley Pesek.
The tournament will feature 24 West Region teams
including nine from the CCAA, eight from the PacWest and
seven from the GNAC.
Saint Martin’s: Sam Munger (See GNAC Player of the
Week notes) had three shutouts increasing her career total
to 17, which ranks fifth in GNAC history. She also ranks
second in career innings pitched (659) and third in wins
(70), appearances (119) and complete games (119).
Offensively, Alyssa Slate and Taviah Jenkins (See Player of
the Week) paced the Saints, who won five of six games.
Slate had nine hits in 15 at bats and accounted for nine
runs, scoring five and driving in four.
Munger, Slate, Isaacson Ranked In Top 10
Saint Martin’s Sam Munger is tied for second in saves in
this week’s NCAA Division II national statistical report with
3.
Also in the Top 10 are SMU’s Alyssa Slate and Western
Washington’s Autumn Isaacson. Slate is sixth in sacrifice
flies with 3 and Isaacson is ninth in triples with 4.
Simon Fraser: The Clan took league-leader and defending
GNAC champion Western Oregon into extra innings twice,
in splitting a doubleheader. Taylor Gillis had five hits in
nine at bats in the doubleheader and scored three of
SFU’s 10 runs. Kelsie Hawkins pitched all 10 innings of
SFU’s 5-3 Game 1 victory, allowing seven hits and three
runs. Just one was earned and she fanned 11.
In team categories, Western Washington ranks seventh in
double plays, averaging 0.60 per game (12 in 20 games).
The Vikings have made just 20 errors in 19 games and lead
the conference with a .969 fielding percentage.
GNAC in NCAA Top 30 Statistical Rankings
Institution
Western Oregon
Western Washington
Western Oregon
Rank
19th
7th
18th
Avg
4
0.24
3
0.35
3
2
2
Team Notes
Taylor Hoke leads MSUB with a .403 average, while Alex
Baylak of Simon Fraser paces the Clan with a .400 average.
Team
Doubles
Double Plays
Double Plays
Player
Rank
Autumn Isaacson, WWU 9th
Autumn Isaacson, WWU 27th
Sam Munger, SMU
2nd
Danielle Raison, SFU
30th
Alyssa Slate, SMU
6th
Aubrey Conceiacao,MSUB 25th
Mary Dettling, SMU
25th
Western Oregon: Amanda Evola has had two double-digit
hitting streaks. She started the season with an 11-game
streak before going 0-for-2 against Regis on Feb. 15. She’s
followed that up with a 10-game streak. In last week’s
twinbill versus Simon Fraser, Kelsie Gardner led WOU with
five hits in 10 at bats. In the circle, Lizzet Dominguez
Avg
1.95
0.60
0.50
2