NESCAC Player of the Week
Isabel Bettencourt – Bates – So. – C – Peabody, Mass.
Bettencourt hit safely in all 10 games and posted a .656 batting average last week. Bettencourt tallied eight extra-base hits, including two home runs. The sophomore drove in 18 runs on the week, including seven in one game against Gallaudet. Bettencourt already has more hits through 10 games than she did all of last season. Bettencourt did not allow a passed ball and played errorless defense while guiding the Bates pitching staff to a 3.62 ERA.
 
NESCAC Pitcher of the Week
Abby Moravek- Amherst – Jr. - P – Libertyville, Ill.
Moravek went 3-0 from the circle in a 6-4 week for the Mammoths, making four appearances and two starts. She had a 0.32 ERA for the week and a 0.69  WHIP. The junior allowed one earned run over 21.2 innings and striking out 29 batters. Moravek had a career-high 12 strikeouts in a 3-2 win over Fredonia, the first time she had reached double-digit strikeouts, and followed up with 10 punch outs in a 2-0 win over the Milwaukee School of Engineering. 
  
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Lulu Leppard (Nashua, N.H.) led the Mammoths to a 6-4 record for the week, batting .382 with a .417 on-base percentage and a .472 slugging percentage. The rookie tied for the team lead with five RBI and seven runs scored. Leppard knocked out three doubles for the week and led the Mammoths with 13 hits.

Bates – Delaney Rankin (Harrison, Maine) was dominant on the Bates softball team's season-opening trip to Florida. Last week, the junior allowed three earned runs in 26 innings pitched, striking out 36 batters along the way. Rankin won all four of her starts, throwing a complete game every time while going 4-0 with a 0.80 ERA. Her three shutouts on the trip exceed her career total of two entering the season. Bates (7-3) is off to the program's best start through 10 games since 2018.

Colby – Caroline DeSimone (Hopkinton, Mass.) tied a school record with two home runs in Colby's 2025 opener. Her first blast came in her first at-bat of the season to give the Mules a 1-0 lead over Thomas, and her encore came in her next at-bat to break a 1-1 tie.  In the first six games of the season, the sophomore leads Colby in OPS (1.391), runs (9), slugging (.875), walks (6), and stolen bases (4) as the Mules jump out to a 4-2 start. 

Hamilton – Alexis Mayer (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.) hit .333 (8-for-24) with a .750 slugging percentage and .429 on-base percentage in a 6-2 week for the Continentals. Mayer finished the week with 10 runs batted in, nine runs scored, a double, a home run, three triples, four walks, and three stolen bases in eight games. The junior doubled, homered, and drove in four runs in an 8-3 win against Western Connecticut State. Mayer was 2-for-3 with a walk, a triple, and three RBI in a 10-2 victory against Grinnell. Mayer hit safely in six of the eight games … Senior Emma Tansky (Collegeville, Pa.) went 2-0 with a save and a 1.84 ERA in four appearances that covered 19 innings. The Continentals had a 3-1 record in the four games in which Tansky pitched. The senior struck out 10 with no walks and scattered seven hits in seven innings of a 10-0 win against St. Norbert. The shutout was the first of Tansky's career. Tansky allowed one earned run on two hits, struck out eight, and walked five in six innings in the win over Grinnell. In a relief appearance against Western Connecticut State, Tansky gave up one earned run and fanned three in three innings for the save in an 8-3 triumph.

Middlebury – Kristyn Carroll (Kinnelon, N.J.) led Middlebury in a 5-1 week, recording a .600 batting average. Carroll paced the Panther offense in hits (12) and runs (9). Three of the junior’s hits went for extra bases, including two against Plattsburgh State. The Panther also swiped four bases and knocked in five runs … Emily Ye (Alameda, Calif.) earned three victories in the circle to help the Panthers to a 5-1 mark to close out their annual spring break trip to Florida. Over 12.2 innings, the rookie struck out nine batters. Ye also contributed at the plate, tallying three hits and three RBI over seven at-bats.

Trinity – Taylor Mikolajczak (John’s Creek, Ga.) led the Bantams from the leadoff spot, posting a .520 batting average with 15 runs scored and six runs batted in. In an 11-2 win over the University of New England, Mikolajczak went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and two runs batted in, followed by a 2-for-4 effort with three runs and two runs batted in a 9-6 win over Smith. The senior went 2-for-2 with two runs and an RBI in a 12-4 win over Kalamazoo.

Tufts – Tufts sophomore Heaven Oliva (Ventura, Calif.) hit her conference-leading fifth home run of the season in Tufts' first game at Christopher Newport University on Saturday. The three-run home run gave the Jumbos a 3-0 lead at the time. The sophomore also tripled in the second game.

Wesleyan – Isabella Secaira-Cotto (Valley Stream, N.Y.) led the Wesleyan offense hitting .500 at the plate in five starts last week. The senior hit two home runs, had two doubles, scored four runs, and had six RBI. Sercaira-Cotto had at least one hit in all five appearances, extending her hit streak to seven games. Secaira-Cotto went 2-for-3 with two doubles and two RBI in a win over Smith and went 3-for-3 with one home run, one walk, two RBI, and two runs scored in a win over Babson … Jacelyn Lees (Watauga, Texas) allowed just one earned run in 17 innings across three appearances (two starts) last week. She opened with a complete game win over Babson, allowing just one run in a 6-1 triumph in Florida. Lees followed with three shutout innings in relief against Endicott and finished the week with a masterful complete game, seven-inning shutout of Bowdoin where she allowed just three total base runners in a 2-0 win. Lees allowed just three hits with no walks and five strikeouts against the Polar Bears. 

Williams – Senior Sydney Fleming (Burlingame, Calif.) of No. 12 Williams went a combined 4-of-6 batting, with seven RBI, three home runs, and three runs scored, in a doubleheader sweep at Occidental on Sunday. In an 8-1 in Game 2, Fleming went 3-for-3, with four RBI, two home runs, and two runs scored … Junior Sadie Leonard (Tiburon, Calif.) earned the win, allowing no earned runs, no walks, and only two hits, while striking out nine, in five innings of work as the starter in the Game 2 win at Occidental on Sunday.