Briella Sendele and Jocelyn Bennett were longtime teammates in both Stateline Fury travel softball and in high school with the Hononegah Indians.
This weekend, though, the college freshmen could square off as adversaries in the NJCAA DII Region 4 Super Regional at Black Hawk College in Moline, Ill.
Sendele plays right field for #1 overall seed Rock Valley (29-13), while Bennett plays third base for #2 seed Bryant & Stratton of Wisconsin (37-4).
The top two teams out of the Super Regional advance to play in the NJCAA DII National Tournament in Spartenburg, S.C.
Rock Valley opens up at noon Saturday against #5 Madison College. At 2 p.m., #3 Kankakee plays Bryant & Stratton. The losers of those two games play at 4 p.m. while the winners meet at 6 p.m. in the District A Championship.
The winner of Saturday’s 6 p.m. game is the 4A Champion while the losing team advances to Sunday’s 4B Championship game at noon against the winner Saturday’s 4 p.m. contest.
Bennett has played in all 41 games for the Bobcats and is hitting .469 with 39 runs and 41 RBIs. She has 10 doubles, five triples and eight homers, not to mention 13 stolen bases in 15 tries.
Sendele is hitting .284 for the Golden Eagles with 12 doubles, a triple and two homers. She has 24 RBIs and has scored 27 runs. She has four steals.
• STARK A SHARK: Senior pitcher Remington Stark (Parkview) has been UW-La Crosse’s ace in the circle this season. She is 11-3 with a 2.19 earned run average as the Eagles head into WIAC Tournament play at UW-Oshkosh with an eight-game winning streak.
Victory No. 8 came Saturday with a 5-0 shutout of UW-Platteville. Stark pitched five scoreless innings, allowing three hits and no walks with five strikeouts.
For the season, Stark has appeared in 18 games with 16 starts and five complete games. She has pitched in 80 innings, allowing 69 hits and 25 earned runs. She has walked 29 while striking out 77.
• WINTLEND HONORED: Purdue Fort Wayne softball player Brooke Wintlend (Hononegah) was selected to the Valeo #HLSB All-Academic Team for the second year in a row, the Horizon League announced recently.
Wintlend owns a 3.94 GPA in her pursuit of a degree in accounting and management. She was a Horizon League All-Academic Team selection, College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree and a Purdue Fort Wayne Top 50 Student last year. She is a three-time NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete and has earned three Horizon League Academic Honor Roll nods.
This season, Wintlend played in 33 games with 22 starts. The first baseman batted .229 in her final season in Fort Wayne with five home runs and 16 RBIs. The Mastodons were 14-33 overall and 9-15 in the Horizon League.
• BACH WRAPS UP SEASON: Freshman pitcher Lexi Bach (Hononegah) finished her first season for the Emory Eagles (24-16, 10-10) by winning at Washington (Mo.) by a 2-1 score. Bach tossed a complete game, allowing five hits and one earned run. She walked two and struck out three. That was the Eagles’ lone win in their season-ending four-game series.
Bach finished 8-4 with a 3.99 earned run average. She appeared in 19 games with 13 starts and threw three complete games. In 79 innings she allowed 105 hits and 45 earned runs, walking 30 and striking out 44.
Most Popular
Comments / 0