NESCAC Softball Player of the Week
Paige Murphy – Tufts – Fy. – SS – San Anselmo, Calif.
Murphy helped lead Tufts to a 5-1 record during the team's spring break trip to Texas. She hit .522 (12-23) with two doubles, a home run, six runs scored, and six RBI in the six games. The rookie also stole two bases. In a 7-6 Game 2 win at Trinity (TX), she went 5-for-5 with two doubles, two runs, and two RBI. Tufts won the game with two runs in the top of the seventh, including an RBI double by Murphy that tied the score 6-6. At No. 3 Texas Lutheran, Murphy went 3-for-4 with a home run, two runs, and two RBI as the Jumbos defeated the Bulldogs, 7-6, in Game 2. The shortstop was also 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI in Tufts’ Game 1 5-3 win over No. 11 St. Thomas (TX).

NESCAC Softball Pitcher of the Week
Sophia Meade – Colby – So. – Guilford, Conn.
Meade earned two wins in the circle. The hurler threw all seven innings in a win over Smith, and collected another complete game win against Union, a 9-0 shutout in five innings. Meade, Colby's record-holder for saves in a season, tied a career-high with 10 strikeouts against the Garnet Chargers. Meade limited opposing batters to a .167 average.

NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Jayla Adkins (Midlothian, Va.) batted .400 (12-30) and drove in 13 runs in a 4-4 week for the Mammoths. The rookie posted a .438 on-base percentage and slugged .633, knocking out four doubles and a home run while scoring seven runs … Rookie Gwen Religa (Cromwell, Conn.) went 2-2 with a 2.41 ERA in the circle, tossing 16.2 innings and allowing 13 hits and 10 walks while striking out 22. In a 9-4 win over Clarkson, Religa came on in relief and threw five innings of 1-hit, shutout relief, walking only two and striking out eight batters to earn the win. 

Bates – Sophomore Maddy Miller (Norway, Maine) hit .429 at the plate with three walks in seven games last week for the Bobcats. The infielder played errorless defense at second base as Bates went 4-3. Miller had more hits (6) last week than she did all of last season … Haley Alden (Manchester, N.H.) won both her starts last week and did not give up a run. The sophomore tossed four innings of one-hit ball and struck out two in a 3-0 win over Rutgers-Camden. Alden followed up with four more shutout innings, allowing just two hits while striking out three in a 4-1 win over Ursinus. 

Bowdoin – Anika Ewert (Newport Coast, Calif.) led the Polar Bears to a 3-2 week. The senior centerfielder batted .789 (15-19) for the week, registering multi-hit performances in each game, scoring 14 runs, and posting seven stolen bases. The performance raised her NESCAC-leading batting average to .692 on the year. 

Colby – Ella Wilcox (Windham, Maine) collected a hit in all six games last weekend as Colby opened its spring trip with a 5-1 record. The junior collected a pair of hits in a win against Smith as well as their lone setback against Babson. The junior went 4-4 against Union with a double and a triple, and scored twice. Against Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Wilcox scored the game-tying run to erase a 3-0 deficit early in the Mules’ upset of the No.13-ranked Titans, 5-4. Wilcox scored nine runs with five RBI, going 11-22 at the plate.  She has recorded a hit in all seven games this season.

Hamilton – Nikki Dyche (Albuquerque, N.M.) hit .444 (12-27) with six runs and five RBI and handled 32 chances in the field without an error as the Continentals went 5-3 in Florida. Dyche finished the week with four straight multi-hit games. The sophomore singled, doubled, and drove in two runs in a 9-7 win against UMass Boston. Dyche went 2-for-2 and plated three runs in an 11-4 Game 1 victory against Western Connecticut, and went 2-for-3 with a triple and a walk and scored twice in an 11-2 Game 2 triumph against the Wolves. Dyche's best game was in a 4-3 setback against Central (Iowa), going 4-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored. The four hits against Central and three RBI against Western Connecticut were career highs for Dyche … Lauren Farace (San Diego, Calif.) posted a 2.30 ERA in six appearances covering 21.1 innings with a 2-1 record and two saves as the Continentals went 4-2 in the games the first-year pitched. Farace allowed one unearned run and three hits in 5.1 innings and got the win in relief in a 6-2 victory against Grinnell. Farace picked up the save by tossing the last two innings of a 5-3 win against Hartford, and earned another save with three shutout innings in an 11-4 triumph against Western Connecticut State. Farace's other win was for pitching 2.1 innings of one-hit relief as Hamilton rallied for a 9-7 victory against UMass Boston.

Middlebury – Jen Westphal (Westport, Conn.) excelled at the plate in a 2-0 weekend to open The Spring Games in Clermont, Florida. The senior opened the slate with a 3-for-4 showing with two runs batted in and crossed the plate twice in a 7-2 win over Westminster (Mo.). In Middlebury’s 11-3 win in five innings over Union, Westphal had a timely RBI double in the bottom of the third that sparked five runs to give the Panthers a lead that they would never give up … Sophomore Emily Ye (Alameda, Calif.) tallied her first win of the campaign against Westminster (Mo.), throwing five innings of no-hit softball, striking out four and giving up just one walk.

Trinity – Emily Goddard (Danvers, Mass.) paced the Bantams at the plate in a 4-3 run at The Spring Games in Florida. Across eight games, the junior batted .526 (10-19) with four doubles, one home run, seven RBI, and nine runs scored. Goddard posted three multi-hit games, drove in two-plus runs in two games, and scored at least three in four games for Trinity.

Tufts – In three starts for Tufts during the team's spring break trip to Texas, Avery Kanouse (Elmhurst, Ill.) recorded a 1.75 ERA, allowing four earned runs in 16 innings. The rookie pitched a four-hit shutout at Trinity (TX) in a 4-0 win. At third-ranked Texas Lutheran, she scattered six hits with two earned runs in six innings of a close 3-1 loss.

Wesleyan – Molly Lennon (Litchfield, Conn.) recorded at least one hit in all five games for the Cardinals last week, including one double, one triple, and two home runs. Lennon totaled six RBI and two runs scored while drawing three walks. Lennon opened the week with a home run and three walks, reaching base safely in all four plate appearances, in a win over Smith. The senior recorded a home run and two RBI in a win over Bowdoin in Game 2 of the doubleheader.

Williams – Senior captain and shortstop Alysa DeQuiroz (Los Angeles, Calif.) went a combined 3-of-6 batting, to go along with an RBI, in a pair of games against No. 10-ranked University of Redlands on Sunday … First-year pitcher Cassidy Chew (Millbrae, Calif.) did not give up an earned run in 3.1 innings of relief work in Game 2 against No. 10-ranked University of Redlands.