NE10 Softball Report: Week 7

Posted: Apr 03, 2023

Week 7 - April 3, 2023

NE10 Player of the Week

Haley Bigwood, Franklin Pierce
Junior | Infield | Athol, Mass.

In a very busy week for FPU Softball, Bigwood lit it up for 17 RBI on 12 hits, including three home runs and a double. Along the way, Bigwood also added in five stolen bases and eight total runs scored, finishing the seven-game week with a .522 batting average, a .571 on-base percentage, and a .957 slugging percentage. Her recent six-RBI performance against Southern Connecticut was good for a new personal best for Bigwood, who leads the NE10 this season in RBI (39). Defensively, Bigwood also completed the week with 14 total putouts, nine assists and a .958 fielding percentage.

NE10 Pitcher of the Week

Lindsey Hibbs, Adelphi
Junior | Pitcher | Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Hibbs appeared in all six games last week for Adelphi, whether in a starting or relief role. She compiled a 4-1 record and one save with a stunning three shutouts and a 0.25 earned-run average. In those 28.1 innings pitched, Hibbs only surrendered one run and three walks, while striking out 37 to pick up her 500th career strikeout along the way. The right-hander limited opposing hitters to a .104 batting average against.

NE10 Rookie of the Week

Skylar Griffin, New Haven
Freshman | Pitcher/Infield | Berlin, Md.

Griffin made a pair of starts among five appearances in the circle last week, capping off the week with a complete game 1-0 shutout of Saint Michael's. Overall for the week, she threw 20.1 innings and allowed three earned runs for a 1.03 ERA. She also struck out seven batters.

NE10 Weekly Honor Roll

Taylor Murphy, AIC (So., 2B - Gill, Mass.)
Murphy had hits in all five appearances for AIC as she hit a scorching .533 on the week, going 8-for-15, reaching base 10 times total including her pair of walks. She scored three times in those five games. She also had a perfect fielding percentage, going 9-for-9 at second base including helping AIC turn a double play against Felician.

Jordan Dweyer, Assumption (Sr., OF - Coventry, R.I.)
Dwyer batted .500 in two games this week, as she went 4-for-8 with three extra-base hits and four RBI. In game one at Post on Friday, the Coventry RI native went 1-for-3 with a homerun, three RBI, and a stolen base. In the night cap, she went 3-for-5 with a double, a triple, one RBI, and a stolen base.

Payton Doiron, Bentley (Jr., P - Beacon Falls, Conn.)
Doiron pitched in five of Bentley's six games during a 5-1 week and put together a 3-1 record and a 1.17 ERA in 24 innings. She limited the opponents to a .200 average, walked just five and struck out 23. She gave up only one run in ten innings against 18th-ranked Adelphi, allowed only one unearned run in six innings against Pace and struck out ten in eight innings of the Le Moyne doubleheader.

Jordan Krause, Bentley (So., OF - San Pedro, Calif.)
During a 5-1 week, Krause hit .500 (10/20) with four runs scored, five RBI, a triple and a home run, her 10th career to break the program?s all-time record. Krause, who was named to the NFCA Player of the Year Watch List on Thursday, had a .565 on base percentage and a .750 slugging percentage for the conference's first-place team. She had two hits in each game of a doubleheader against Le Moyne, hit a three-run homer in a 5-4 win against Adelphi and was 5-of-8 in a doubleheader sweep of Pace.

Anna Acevedo, Pace (Jr., P - Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Two games, 14.2 IP, 2 ER, 4K, 0.95 ERA, 1.16 WHIP

NE10 Weekly Winners

2023 NE10 Softball Standings

	Conference			Overall
-	GP	W-L	PCT	GP	W-L	PCT
Adelphi	24	21-3	0.875	55	47-8	0.855
Bentley	24	18-5-1	0.771	47	30-16-1	0.649
Franklin Pierce	24	16-8	0.667	52	32-20	0.615
Saint Anselm	24	15-8-1	0.646	42	26-15-1	0.631
Pace	24	15-9	0.625	52	27-25	0.519
Assumption	24	13-11	0.542	42	24-18	0.571
Le Moyne	24	12-12	0.500	46	23-23	0.500
So. New Hampshire	24	12-12	0.500	42	20-22	0.476
New Haven	24	12-12	0.500	47	17-30	0.362
So. Connecticut	24	8-16	0.333	42	14-28	0.333
Saint Michael's	24	6-18	0.250	40	13-27	0.325
Saint Rose	24	4-20	0.167	43	12-31	0.279
American Int'l	24	3-21	0.125	46	7-39	0.152