NESCAC Player of the Week
Abby Orso – Wesleyan – Gr. – DP/P – York, Maine
Orso has contributed to Wesleyan’s 8-0 record, which is Wesleyan’s best start since 2010, both at the plate and in the circle. Orso leads the Cardinals with a .500 batting average (11-for-22) and has team-bests in runs (10), triples (2), home runs (2), and slugging percentage (.955). Her best game was a 2-for-3 showing against Montclair State where she totaled five RBI. Orso also made history in the circle, throwing the first no-hitter by a Cardinal pitcher since 2006, working five innings, allowing no hits, and striking out 10 in an 11-0 run-rule win over Saint Joseph's (ME). In four starts, Orso has allowed just one earned run in 18 innings of work with 27 strikeouts and seven hits allowed.
 
NESCAC Pitcher of the Week
Jacelyn Lees – Wesleyan – Fy. – P – Watauga, Texas
Lees has yet to allow an earned run through her first 18.1 collegiate innings, as the first-year has made an immediate impact for Wesleyan which is off to its best start since 2010 at 8-0. Lees made two starts and five total appearances, going 18.1 innings with a 0.00 ERA, 11 hits allowed, zero earned runs, two walks, and 16 strikeouts. Lees is 4-0, having won both of her starts, including a complete game six-hit shutout with no walks and seven strikeouts against Penn State-Behrend. She also came on in relief and picked up the win against Rutgers-Camden in a close 6-5 victory and threw three innings of scoreless relief in a 3-2 eight-inning win over New Paltz. 
  
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Newcomer Lulu Leppard (Nashua, N.H.) went 4-for-6 with a triple, two RBI, and two runs scored as the Mammoths opened the season with wins over Southern Maine and Macalester … Senior Dani Torres Werra (Merced, Calif.) tossed a complete game in a 6-3 win over Southern Maine, allowing six hits while walking one and striking out three. 

Bates – Grace Householter (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), the lone senior on the Bobcats, went 2-for-6 in the first two games of the year for Bates, tripling, driving in two runs, drawing a walk, and stealing a base along the way … Delaney Rankin (Harrison, Maine) struck out a career-high 15 batters in a complete game one-hit shutout of Framingham State on Sunday. It was Rankin's first-year career one-hitter and third career shutout. The junior’s 15 strikeouts were two shy of the Bates program record for strikeouts in a single game.

Bowdoin – The junior slapper Annika Ewert (Newport Coast, Calif.) hit .414 with 12 hits, including two extra-base knocks, nine runs scored, and a perfect 9-for-9 on stolen bases in eight games for the Polar Bears. Ewert went 3-for-3 with two stolen bases in Bowdoin’s 3-1 win over Ursinus and boasts a spotless fielding percentage in the outfield … Junior Maddie Current (Lutherville Timonium, Md.) leads Bowdoin's pitching staff with a 3-1 record in the circle. The junior has fanned 19 batters while allowing just 18 hits scattered over 20.1 innings of work. 

Colby – The Mules open the 2025 season on March 19 with a doubleheader versus Thomas in Waterville, Maine.

Hamilton – Alexis Mayer (Woodcliff, Lake, N.J.) reached base in all eight plate appearances in two wins for the Continentals on Sunday. Mayer doubled, homered, drove in three runs, scored twice, walked twice, and stole two bases in a 6-1 victory against Western Connecticut State. The junior outfielder was a home run short of the cycle, drove in three runs, scored three times, and was hit by a pitch in a 9-0 triumph against Rutgers-Newark that ended after six innings … Senior Emma Tansky (Collegeville, Pa.) threw the first four innings and collected the win in the Continentals' 6-1 victory against Western Connecticut State. Tansky allowed two hits and no runs and struck out eight.

Middlebury – Junior Kristyn Carroll (Kinnelon, N.J.) paced Middlebury in a 4-2 week, hitting .632 at the plate. The Panther scored eight times on 12 hits while driving in six runs. Carroll had a pair of doubles and was a perfect 4-for-4 in stolen bases. The outfielder moved into second all-time on Middlebury’s career runs-scored list with 93 … McKenna Lont (Wycoff, N.J.) earned a pair of wins in the circle last week. Over 11.2 innings of work, Lont struck out 11 batters. The junior also contributed at the plate, recording a hit in all six games. Long tallied five runs on five hits to go along with three RBI.

Trinity – Junior Abigail Alper (Weston, Fla.) went 3-for-4 in the Bantams’ season-opening victory over Juniata, driving in three runs and scoring once. Alper plated the game-winning runs in the fourth and then brought home an insurance run with an RBI double in the sixth … Zofia Sargent (Shrewsbury, Mass.) earned a win in the 5-1 victory over Juniata in her collegiate debut in the pitching circle, allowing one run on five hits with a strikeout.

Tufts – Kaitlyn Perucci (Coto De Caza, Calif.) had at least one hit and scored at least one run in all four games as Tufts went 3-1 at the Margie Knight Classic hosted by Salisbury University. The junior hit .538 for the weekend and scored five runs with an RBI. On Sunday, in the second spot of the order, she was 4-for-6 with three runs and an RBI as Tufts defeated The College of New Jersey, 3-1, and No. 13 Salisbury, 8-0, in five innings. She doubled twice in the TCNJ game, leading to a run and an RBI, then had two hits and scored twice as Tufts became the first team since 2022 to run-rule Salisbury … Sophia DiCocco (Bozrah, Conn.) recorded two wins and a save in the pitcher's circle at the Salisbury tournament. After a complete-game win against WPI on Saturday (7 IP, 7 H, 2 ER), DiCocco retired 20 of the 23 batters she faced on Sunday against TCNJ and Salisbury. The graduate student entered the game in the sixth against TCNJ, stranded the tying runs on base, and earned a save in a 3-1 win. Against the Sea Gulls DiCocco threw a five-inning one-hit shutout as Tufts run-ruled Salisbury 8-0. For the weekend DiCocco was 2-0 with a save, allowing nine hits and two earned runs over 13.2 innings (1.02 ERA).

Williams – In the opening game of a doubleheader at RPI, senior Sydney Fleming (Burlingame, Calif.) went 4-of-4 at the plate, with three RBI, two runs, one homer, and one double, as No. 12 Williams defeated RPI, 7-0 victory in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Saturday in Troy, N.Y. … Sadie Leonard (Tiburon, Calif.) was in the circle for the Ephs in the Game 1 victory over RPI. The junior threw a complete-game no-hitter, recording 14 strikeouts and zero walks.