PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The American Athletic Conference has announced the winners of the league’s weekly softball honors for the second week of the 2019 season.
AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Baylee Smith · So. · OF · Memphis
Smith led Memphis offensively over the weekend with an 8-for-10 showing at the plate, including five extra base hits and six RBI, finishing with two doubles, two triples, and a home run. Against FIU, Smith was a home run away from hitting for the cycle. She also was perfect on the base paths, swiping three bases. She finished the four-game weekend with an .800 batting average, a .750 on-base percentage and was perfect in the field in five chances.
AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE PITCHERS OF THE WEEK
Georgina Corrick · So. · RHP · USF
Corrick recorded four appearances and two starts, tossing 16.2 innings total over the weekend including a complete game win over No. 9/9 Arizona on Friday. She struck out 18 total batters and went 3-0 in the circle, allowing five runs (three earned) and 12 hits.
Erin McDonald · So. · RHP · Wichita State
McDonald appeared in each of the four games over the weekend for the Shockers, notching a complete game win in her lone start and tallying two saves. Over a total of 14.0 innings, she allowed five hits and three earned runs while striking out 11 batters. She didn’t allow a baserunner across her first two appearances, tossing a combined 4.1 innings of relief against Abilene Christian and Louisiana Tech.
WEEKLY HONOR ROLL
Erin Poepping · So. · RHP · ECU
Poepping went 3-0 in four appearances over the weekend with 16 strikeouts in 16.0 innings of work to improve to 6-0 on the young season. She tossed a pair of complete games in wins over Cleveland State and Saint Francis (Pa.) and had a career-high 10 strikeouts against Saint Francis (Pa.) before tallying her first save of the year against Wagner.
Presley Bell · Sr. · RHP · Houston
Bell tossed the first two shutouts of the season for Houston in her starts over the weekend, striking out a career-high eight batters against Louisiana-Monroe. She walked two batters in 140 innings of work, recording 11 strikeouts in her two appearances and allowing six hits and a pair of walks.
Samantha Pochop · So. · RHP · Tulsa
Pochop went 1-0 with a save, pitching nine shutout innings with 15 strikeouts against two hits and a walk. Against North Dakota, she allowed a hit in the top of the first and then retired the next 21 batters and recorded a career-high 13 strikeouts. Pochop then pitched two scoreless innings of relief and earned a save in Tulsa win over Lipscomb.
Julia Hollingsworth · Sr. · OF · Tulsa
Hollingsworth hit .550 (11-for-20) with seven runs scored, two triples, four RBI and a pair of stolen bases last week. She had three 3-hit games and had at least one hit in all five games. Her two triples in the win over South Alabama helped her set the program’s career triples mark (13).
Neleigh Herring · So. ·1B · Wichita State
Herring hit .428 (6-for-14) with four doubles, a home run and 10 RBI for the Shockers in Louisiana. Against host Louisiana Tech, she had a career-high five RBI and had a pair of doubles, also a personal best, while scoring four times throughout the weekend.