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MAC tennis champs head into NCAA TournamentMarshall heads to Knoxville, Tenn., this weekend to take on the first-seeded University of Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA Tennis Tournament. The Thundering Herd won the 2002 Mid-American Conference Women’s Tennis Championship to earn their berth into the tournament. They enter the tournament as the No. 4 seed. This will be the first NCAA Tournament for Marshall, which finished the season with a 21-7 record.
Central Michigan boasts national strike-out leadersBatters beware when stepping up to the plate in Mount Pleasant, Mich. Central Michigan is home to of the two highest-rated pitchers in the nation. Baseball pitcher Chad Pleiness and softball pitcher Amber Puchalski are ranked second and third, respectively, in the nation in strikeouts. Averaging 14.0 strikeouts per game, Pleiness tied a school record with 15 strikeouts in seven innings against Northern Illinois. Pleiness is 4-2 with a 1.47 earned run average. In MAC play, he is 3-1 with a 0.33 ERA. Puchalski posts an average of 11.4 strikeouts per game. In her career, she has pitched seven no-hitters and tied the record for career strikeouts with 509. Puchalski needs 24 more strikeouts to tie the MAC single-season record.
Bowling Green athlete receives NCAA postgraduate scholarshipBowling Green catcher Holly Frantz recently was named a recipient of the NCAA Women's Enhancement Program Postgraduate Scholarship. This prestigious award is given nationally to 13 female student-athletes who will continue their studies in postgraduate studies. Award winners also must enter into a sports-related program. Planning to continue her education in the Bowling Green department of athletics, Frantz will serve her graduate assistantship with strength and conditioning coach Aaron Hillmann. On the field, Frantz is Bowling Green’s two-year starting catcher and was the only player on the team to start all 44 games this spring. Frantz is hitting .272 this season and also is on her way to setting the school’s fielding percentage record.
— Lindsey Elling |