This weekend’s schedule also features a pair of
Friday/Saturday four-game series as Northwest Nazarene
plays at Simon Fraser and Central Washington visits
Montana State Billings.
Team Notes
Central Washington:
Kailyn Campbell earned alltournament honors at Turlock as she led the Wildcats with
a .471 batting average (8-of-17) and 10 RBIs. Among her
hits were two doubles and one home run. Austin
Wilkerson (8-of-19) and Sammy Morris (8-of-23) also had
eight hits each. Morris scored a team-high eight runs.
CWU batted .346, the third best average in the
tournament. Lindsey Kamphuis accounted for all three of
CWU’s victories and had a 1.84 ERA giving up just five
earned runs in 19 innings. She was touched up for eight
unearned runs.
A Look Back at the Tournament of Champions
All seven GNAC teams won at least two games at Turlock
led by Saint Martin’s (6-1) and Western Washington (4-3).
MSU Bill ings (3-3) and Central Washington (3-3) each split
their six games, while Northwest Nazarene (2-3), Simon
Fraser (2-4) and Western Oregon (2-5) finished with two
wins each.
Montana State Billings: Jessica Campbell, who had
pitched just six innings in three previous games, allowed
only three hits and an unearned run in nine innings in a
pair of contests at Turlock, picking up a win. Offensively,
Aubrey Conceicao paced the Yellowjackets with eight hits
in 17 at bats. Bella Rovens went 7-for-18. MSUB
outscored its seven opponents 26-25, defeating nationally
fourth-ranked Cal State Monterey Bay 3-0 and losing only
8-7 to No. 21 Sonoma State. Heather Tracy had the most
RBIs driving in six in 13 at bats.
GNAC teams were 9-6 against the PacWest and 12-15
against the CCAA for a 21-21 record. One game pitted two
GNAC teams against each other (a 6-3 SMU win over
Central Washington in the Silver Bracket semifinals).
Munger Tied For National Lead in Saves
Sam Munger of Saint Martin’s is tied for the national lead
in saves with four.
The only other GNAC player ranked in the Top 10 in any
category is SMU’s Alyssa Slate. She is seventh in sacrifice
flies with three.
Northwest Nazarene: The Crusaders had their best
performance ever in seven CSUS tournaments winning
twice for the second year in a row and losing a pair of onerun contests. It is 4-6 over the past two tournaments after
going 2-23 over the previous five. Whitney Carlton led the
Crusaders with two singles and three doubles in 13 at bats.
She also drove in six runs. In nine games during the week,
she had 11 hits in 26 at bats and drove in 13 runs. Among
her hits were five doubles and a triple. Lily Paschal had 11
hits in 29 at bats and scored nearly one-quarter of her
team’s runs (13 of 56).
In team categories, Western Washington and Western
Oregon are tied for fourth in double plays. Saint Martin’s
is 19th in batting average, hitting .341.
GNAC in NCAA Top 30 Statistical Rankings
Team
Batting
Doubles
Double Plays
Double Plays
On-Base
Institution
Saint Martin’s
Central Washington
Western Washington
Western Oregon
Saint Martin’s
Rank
19th
24th
4th
4th
30th
Avg
.341
1.77
0.56
0.56
.413
Individual
Triples
Home Runs
Saves
Saves
Hit By Pitch
Toughest to K
Toughest to K
Sacrifice Flies
Sacrifice Flies
Victories
Shutouts
Player
Rank
Autumn Isaacson, WWU 18th
Emily Osborn, MSUB
27th
Sam Munger, SMU
1st
Jessyka MacDonald,MSUB 25th
Destiny Kuehl, WOU
22nd
Heather Tracy, MSUB
22nd
Dani Wall, SMU
28th
Alyssa Slate, SMU
7th
Alicia Fine, WWU
20th
Makinlee Sellevold, WWU 20th
Sam Munger, WWU
13th
Avg
4
9
4
2
0.33
85.0
55.0
4
3
14
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Saint Martin’s: In its last four CSUS tournaments, the
Saints have gone 4-2, 6-1, 5-2 and 6-1, all under Rick
Noren. Sam Munger had 14 hits in 24 at bats to raise her
career average to .397, seventh best in GNAC history.
Munger also had a 0.83 ERA, three wins and her fourth
save of the season to move into a tie for the national lead.
Megan Miller batted .381 (8-of-21) and Taviah Jenkins hit
.360 (9-of-25). Munger had eight RBI and four others –
Jenkins, Lindsey Miller, Alyssa Slate and Mary Dettling –
each had five RBI.
Simon Fraser: Taylor Lundrigan batted .333 (6-of-18) and
Danielle Raison hit .357 (5-of-14) and had a home run and
four RBI to lead the Clan to a 2-4 record.
SFU
outhomered its six opponents 3-0. Alla Stachoski had
both of the Clan’s two victories and Jessica Goulet had a
3.77 ERA, allowing seven earned runs in 13 innings. One of
SFU’s wins was over No. 21 Sonoma State 4-3.
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