\u00a0The awards rolled in for the BCC Softball team, following their sterling 42-6 season.<\/p>\n
Topping the list, sophomores Erica Addison and Dawn Norcross, as well as freshman Korri Heideman were all named to the 2008 Louisville Slugger\/NFCA NWAACC All-American team. The team was selected by NFCA-member NWAACC coaching representatives, based on nominations from the 2008 season.<\/p>\n
Addison, a sophomore shortstop from Anacortes, also took home MVP honors in the Northern Region.\u00a0 After being named to the All-Region First Team as a freshman in 2007, she followed up with a .469 batting average with 12 homeruns and 61 RBI in 2008.\u00a0 Norcross, earned her First Team honors for the second consecutive year as well, after finishing the season with a .417 batting average, 10 homeruns and 52 RBI. Heideman, a freshman from Inglemoor High School in Kenmore, WA, finished her freshman campaign finished with an impressive .460 batting average and 7 homeruns and 51 RBI, and received First Team All Region Honors.<\/p>\n
Joining Addison, Norcross and Heideman on the All-Region First Team were Lauren Smoot, Whitney Whittemore, Michelle Wilson, and Michelle Ruby while Christine Miller-Long was named to the All-Region Second team. <\/p>\n
Freshmen infielder Smoot finished with a .434 batting average, 8 homeruns, and 37 RBI, while Whittemore batted .420 with 6 homeruns and 40 RBI.\u00a0 Sophomore first baseman Michelle Wilson had a .454 batting average and 24 RBI.\u00a0 Sophomore outfielder Dawn Norcross had a .417 batting average, 10 homeruns and 52 RBI.\u00a0 Freshmen pitcher\/infielder Michelle Ruby was equally impressive on the mound as at the plate.\u00a0 She finished with a 17-1 record, 3 saves, 2.03 ERA, with 125 strikeouts in 99 innings pitched while also sporting a .427 batting average, 9 homeruns, and 37 RBI.\u00a0 Sophomore pitcher Miller-Long finished with an 18-2 record, 1 save, a 2.56 ERA and 65 strikeouts in 99 innings pitched.\u00a0 She also had a solid .306 batting average.<\/p>\n
Head Coach Leah Francis was also honored as the Northern Region\u2019s Coach of the Year. In her four season at BCC, Francis has taken the her team to four consecutive NWAACC Tournaments, and has won the Northern Region Championship three of the last four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0The awards rolled in for the BCC Softball team, following their sterling 42-6 season.Topping the list, sophomores Erica Addison and Dawn Norcross, as well as freshman Korri Heideman were all named to the 2008 Louisville Slugger\/NFCA NWAACC All-American team. The team was selected by NFCA-member NWAACC coaching representatives, based on nominations from the 2008 season.Addison, ...more about Softball Awards Roll In: Three All-Americans and Coach of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}