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No-hitter and .750 batting average earn Amy Letourneau USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week honors

April 4, 2013

Oklahoma City, OK

No-hitter and .750 batting average earn Amy Letourneau USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week honors

 

OKLAHOMA CITY ---  Northwestern pitcher/first baseman Amy Letourneau (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) went 2-0 in the circle including a no-hitter and added two home runs against Minnesota over the weekend. For her outstanding play, the sophomore has been honored with her first USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week award the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today. Letourneau went 6-for-8 from the batter’s box for a .750 average. The sophomore finished the week with a 1.500 slugging percentage and an .818 on-base percentage.

 

"This is such an amazing honor to be chosen for this award, especially with all of the great players around the country who have earned it already this season,” said Letourneau. “We had a great week of preparation leading up to last weekend and it really helped us perform and take the next step as a team.”

 

The California native started the weekend by etching her name in the Northwestern softball record books when she became the 45th pitcher in school history to record a no-hitter. Letourneau struck out 11 batters in the game on her way to the 6-2 win. She was also productive from the plate going 2-for-4 with a run scored. On Saturday, the sophomore went 3-for-3 with four RBI and a home run. Letourneau returned to the circle on Sunday to toss another complete-game victory in a 4-2 NU win. The pitcher hammered her second home run of the weekend in the first inning, this one a two-run shot.

 

"Amy has had great poise in big moments this season,” said Northwestern Head Coach Kate Drohan. “When we have to get an out in the circle or need that two-out RBI base hit, Amy is getting it done. She is really locked in right now."

 

This is the first USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week honor for Amy. The last Northwestern player to receive the award was Tammy Williams in Week Six of the 2009 season.

 

2013 USA Softball National Collegiate Players of the Week Week 1 (Feb. 7-10): Keilani Ricketts - Oklahoma - Senior - Pitcher– San Jose, Calif. Week 2 (Feb. 11-17): BB Bates – UCLA – Senior – Outfield – Victorville, Calif. Week 3 (Feb. 18-24): Mel Dumezich – Texas A&M – Senior – Pitcher – Whiting, Ind.

Week 4 (Feb. 25- March 3): Katie Keller – Louisville – Junior – Second Base – Livermore, Calif.

Week 5 (March 4-10): Ivy Renfroe – Tennessee – Senior – Pitcher – Jackson, Tenn.

Week 6 (March 11-17): Kaia Parnaby – Hawai’i – Senior – Pitcher – Bilgola Plateau, NSW, Australia

Week 7 (March 18-24): Raven Chavanne – Tennessee – Senior – Utility – Thousand Oaks, Calif. Week 8 (March 25-31): Amy Letourneau – Northwestern – Sophomore – Pitcher/1B – Laguna Niguel, Calif.

 

About ASA The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation’s largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 76 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 210,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/.
About USA Softball USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men’s, Women’s, Junior Boys’ and Junior Girls’ National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women’s National Team is one of the only two women’s sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won nine World Championship titles including the last seven consecutive as well as claimed six World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.
About the NCAA Women’s College World Series The ASA Hall of Fame Stadium serves as the home to the NCAA Women’s College World Series (WCWS). For the 23rd year, the top eight college teams in the nation will head to Oklahoma City and complete for a National Championship title. Last year, over 75,000 fans attended the WCWS. Experience It Live May 30 to June 5 in Oklahoma City. Tickets for the 2013 NCAA WCWS are on sale now, click here to purchase your tickets and make a date with champions!

 

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