March 18
Performer
Christy Condon - Lake Forest College - Senior
1B/OF - Brookfield, Wis./Brookfield East
Condon helped lead Lake Forest to a 6-4 record at the Rebel Spring Games last week. She batted .414 (12-29) in the 10 games with four home runs, 13 RBI, nine runs scored and a slugging percentage of .862. The senior recorded a sevengame hitting streak, her third career two-homer game, a four-hit performance, and a pair of 4-RBI games during the trip.
Pitcher
Brittnee Peotter - Ripon College - Freshman
RHP - Kaukauna, Wis./Kaukauna
Peotter started three games on Ripon’s trip to Florida last week, finishing the road trip with a 2-1 record. The right-handed freshman allowed two earned runs in 22.1 innings for a 0.63 ERA. She earned victories over Penn State-Behrend
(5-2) and Westfield State (6-1), while striking out 18 total hitters in the three contests.
March 24
Performer
Darcy Ward - Grinnell College - Junior
OF - Eagan, Minn./Eagan
Ward helped the Pioneers earn a split on the team’s eight-game spring break trip to Cocoa Beach, Florida last week. Ward closed the Pioneers’ trip hitting .640 (16-25) with two home runs, 15 RBI and seven runs scored. The junior
outfielder paced a Pioneer offense that scored at least eight runs in each of its four victories.
Pitcher
Sarah Holloway - Illinois College - Senior
RHP - Loami, Ill./New Berlin
Holloway posted a 3-1 record on the mound for the Lady Blues last week, as the team completed its spring break trip to Ft. Myers, Florida with a 4-4 record. The right-handed senior struck out 29 hitters in the four contests and helped her own
cause at the plate with a .487 batting average and four RBI.
March 31
Performer
Emily Willems - Monmouth College - Senior
SS - Moline, Ill./Rockridge
Willems paced the Fighting Scot offense in four games last week, hitting .583 (7-12) with two doubles, three runs scored, four RBI and a slugging percentage of 1.000. In a 10-2 , 3-2 sweep of MacMurray, the senior shortstop went 5-for-6 with two doubles, an RBI and two runs scored. Willems’ continued her strong play against Illinois Wesleyan, as she drove in all of Monmouth’s runs in a pair of losses, including a tworun home run that gave the Scots a 2-1 advantage in the second game.
Pitcher
Gretchen Galasek - Lake Forest College - Freshman
RHP - Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park & River Forest
Galasek’s first career start Saturday at Wheaton (IL) proved to be bittersweet, as the right-handed freshman tossed the 11th no-hitter in Lake Forest history, but still suffered a 2-1 defeat. Wheaton’s first batter of the game walked, the second reached on an error and both came around to score without the aid of a base hit. A two-out walk in the second inning turned out to be the final baserunner of the game for the Thunder, who entered the contest with a team batting average of .336 and collected 14 base hits in game one of the doubleheader. Galasek struck out one hitter in the game.
April 7
Performer
Jill Pfund - Lake Forest College - Sophomore
C - Morceni, Mich./Morceni
Pfund opened conference play with a bang, as the sophomore catcher became the first player in school history to hit three home runs in a game during Saturday’s 12-2 MWC opening win at Illinois College. Pfund started her record-setting day with a solo homer in the fourth inning and added two-run shots in the fifth and seventh innings, respectively. She was also 1-for-3 in the team’s 2-1 victory in game two and was 2-for-6 with a run scored and two RBI in Sunday’s doubleheader sweep of Monmouth (6-5, 13-6) that lifted the Foresters to 4-0 in league play. Pfund hit .462 (6-13) on the week with seven RBI and a 1.154 slugging percentage.
Pitcher
Jeanette Andresen - Lake Forest College - Sophomore
RHP - Woodridge, Ill./Downers Grove South
Andresen won once each day as Lake Forest recorded doubleheader sweeps at Illinois College and Monmouth over the weekend. She held the Lady Blues to just two runs on six base hits in the Foresters’ 12-2 victory in Saturday’s opener. She threw the final 4.1 innings of Sunday’s second game and surrendered just one run on three hits to earn the decision in a 13-6 triumph. The sophomore righty posted a 1.85 ERA in 11.1 innings over the weekend while holding opponents to a .220 batting average.
April 15
Performer
Katie Schneider - Knox College - Senior
OF - Evanston, Ill./St. Scholastica Academy
In four games last week, Schneider was 8-for-12 (.667) with two doubles, two home runs, four runs scored and a pair of RBI. The senior outfielder had her best game of the week Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader against conference foe Monmouth. Schneider was 2-for-3 with two solo homers in the game, as she led off the bottom of the seventh with her second homer to tie the game 3-3 en route to a 4-3 come-frombehind Prairie Fire victory. Schneider had helped keep Knox within a run in the sixth inning of the game, as she threw out a Fighting Scot runner at the plate from left field.
Pitcher
Lorin Kelly - Carroll College - Sophomore
RHP - Janesville, Wis./Parker
Kelly went the distance in a marathon Lady Pioneer victory last week, as the sophomore righty was the complete-game winner during a 12-inning affair against Beloit that ended in a 7-6 Carroll triumph. Kelly gave up four earned runs off of eight hits while striking out 11 batters to earn her fourth victory of the season. The Lady Pioneers went on the defeat the Buccaneers 3-0 in game two, moving into first place in the MWC North after finishing 1-12 in league play a year ago.
April 21
Performer
Natalie Geenen - Ripon College - Junior
SS - Appleton, Wis./Appleton East
Geenen helped lead Ripon to a 7-2 record last week, batting .571 (16-28) with 10 RBI, nine runs scored, three home runs, three doubles, a triple and a stolen base. The junior shortstop’s four total RBI and threerun homer rallied the Red Hawks to a 12-10 win over Lake Forest at Monday’s abbreviated MWC Classic in Janesville, Wisconsin. Geenen, who leads the MWC with an .887 slugging percentage, closed the week with her fifth home run of the season during a 4-2 win over defending MWC champ St. Norbert that salvaged a doubleheader split for Ripon.
Pitcher
Sarah Christensen - Monmouth College - Junior
RHP - Galesburg, Ill./Galesburg
Christensen was 3-0 as a starter and also earned a save last week, as Monmouth went 5-0 overall. At Monday’s abbreviated MWC Classic in Janesville, Wisconsin, the junior righty earned a complete-game shutout win over Lawrence (6-0) and threw four innings of two-hit ball during a five inning win over defending MWC champ St. Norbert (9-0). Sandwiched between the wins was a save against Ripon during a 7-6 victory, as Christensen came in to retire the final batter of the contest with the tying run at second base. She closed her week by limiting Illinois College to one run during a complete-game effort. Christensen tallied a 0.38 ERA with 16 strikeouts and four walks on the week.
April 29
Performer
Emily Willems - Monmouth College - Senior
SS - Moline, Illinois/Moline
The senior had a day to remember Sunday as the Scots clinched their first MWC Tournament berth since 2004. Willems provided the heroics in a 5-4 come-from-behind win over Grinnell that punched the team’s ticket to the postseason. The senior shortstop plated Ashley Parer on a two-out double, her third hit of the game, in the bottom of the seventh inning and then came around to score the walkoff run when Anna Coutts’ grounder was mishandled. She picked up two more hits in the nightcap, a 6-2 win, and hit her 34th career double to move her to within two of the school record. For the week, the senior leadoff hitter batted. 429 with a .571 slugging percentage and six runs scored.
Pitcher
Brittnee Peotter - Ripon College - Freshman
RHP - Kaukauna, Wis./Kaukauna
Peotter came up with a clutch performance in Ripon’s biggest game of the year on Saturday. The Red Hawks dropped game one of a doubleheader against Carroll 8-0, as the Lady Pioneer offense pounded out eight runs on 15 hits to setup a decisive second game that would give the winner the second and final MWC North berth to the 2008 MWC Tournament. The freshman righty stopped Carroll cold with a complete-game two hitter in which she walked three and struck out a singlegame school record 14 hitters. Ripon’s 2-1 triumph pushed the team into the postseason and gave Peotter her first of two wins on the week, as she limited Lakeland to one earned run on three hits a day later.