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Junior Kylee Perez has earned NFCA All-Region honors every season.
Five Bruins Named to NFCA All-Region Teams
May 18, 2017 | Softball
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -ย Five Bruins were named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-West Region Teams on Thursday, as junior Kylee Perez earned First Team honors, senior Delaney Spaulding, junior Madeline Jelenicki and freshman Rachel Garcia picked up Second Team accolades and sophomore Zoe Shaw received Third Team plaudits.
Spaulding became just the 11th Bruin to earn four All-Region awards after being named First Team in 2015 and 2016 and Second Team in 2014. Perez's award is her third in as many seasons, receiving a First Team nod last year and a Third Team recognition as a freshman. Jelenickiย is a two-time All-Region honoree, receiving First Team accolades in 2016. Garcia and Shaw each earned their first All-Region awards.
Perez, an All-Pac-12 Conference First Team and All-Pac-12 Defensive selection,ย leads the team with a .411 average, is tied for first with 15 doubles and second with 44 runs scored and eight stolen bases, adding two homers and 29 RBI. The junior also had a five-hit game to equal a school record when she accomplished the feat at Stanford on April 28. The team leader in multiple-hit games with 22, to go with nine multi-RBI contests, Perez enters the postseason with a seven-game hitting streak, batting .542 (13-for-24) with a homer and 10 RBI during that stretch.
Spaulding, who also earned All-Pac-12 First Team and All-Pac-12 Defensive, is tops on the squad with 14 home runs, 51 runs scored and 21 walks, tied for first with 15 doubles, second with a .381 average and third with 38 runs batted in and six stolen bases. She has 17 RBI in her last 11 games, producing hits in nine of those contests. Spaulding tied school records last Friday at Arizona State with five hits and five runs. She has crossed home plate in seven games in a row (14 total), having posted 18 multiple-hit games and eight multi-RBI contests this season.
Jelenicki, an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree,ย leads the team with 60 runs batted in and five sacrifice flies and is third with 12 homers and 12 doubles, adding a .327 batting average. She enters the NCAA Championship with hits in nine of her last 10 contests, batting .324 (11-for-34) with two homers and 18 RBI during that span. Jelenicki is tops on the squad with 16 multiple-RBI games, adding 16 multi-hit contests, and has made just two errors in 325 chances (.994 fielding percentage) behind the plate and at first base.
Garcia, a finalist for NFCAย National Freshman of the Year, as well as the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, All-Pac-12 First Team and All-Pac-12 Freshman,ย leads the Bruins with an 18-7 record, a 1.95 earned run average and 161 strikeouts in 154 2/3 innings. At the plate, she is third with a .329 batting average and tied for second with 17 walks, adding five home runs, 25 runs batted in and 10 doubles. In her 37 appearances in the circle, Garcia, who was a three-time Pac-12 Pitcher and four-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week, has given up zero or one earned run in 26 of them. She has at least five strikeouts in 13 games. Garcia has hits in 20 of her last 25 games to raise her average from .261 to .329.
Shaw leads the Bruins with seven sacrifice hits and is tied for second with 17 walks, adding a .328 batting average, nine runs batted in, 29 runs scored and seven doubles. She led the team during Pac-12 play with a .415 average. Shaw had a career-best, seven-game hitting streak from April 22-May 5, batting .667 (10-for-15) with eight runs and five walks during that stretch. The sophomore has seven multiple-hit games this season.
The Bruins open up the postseason on Friday at Easton Stadium, taking on Lehigh at 8:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN2.
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