March 30
Performer
Morgan Seiler - Shortstop - Monmouth
Sophomore - Chillicothe, Ill.
Seiler leads Monmouth with a .525 average on 21-of-40 hitting, a .725 slugging percentage, & has driven in a team-high 12 runs. Her 10 runs scored also ties for the team lead. Seiler’s solid performance was evident in the team’s 4-3 come-from-behind win over Robert Morris last Saturday. Trailing by a run with 2 outs in the bottom of the 7th, Seiler doubled in 2 runs for the walkoff win. During the teams spring trip to Arizona, Seiler connected for her first career grand slam against Aquinas College. She is riding a 7-game hitting streak that includes 3 straight 3-hit games, & multiple hits in 7 of 12 games this season.

Pitcher
Jordan Ratliff - Lake Forest
Freshman - Petersburg, Mich.
Ratliff is 4-2 with a 1.80 earned run average in nine appearances for Lake Forest. Opponents are hitting just .254 against her and she has struck out 29 batters and walked 12 in 46.2 innings of work. She retired 16 batters in a row during a 4-3 eight-inning victory over #9 Gustavus Adolphus College at the NCFA Leadoff Classic March 14 and she recorded her first career shutout by blanking Elmhurst College 8-0 on just two hits in five innings on March 19.

April 6
Performer
Tracy Palmer - Shortstop - St. Norbert
Senior - New London, Wis.
In four games last week, Palmer was 8-for-14. The Senior was 2-for-3 with a run scored in a 3-1 win over UW-Oshkosh, and then went 6-for-8 in a doubleheader sweep of Beloit - including goiing 4-for-4 with a double, triple and four RBIs in the nightcap. For the year, Palmer is hitting .473 with 11 runs scored and an on-base percentage of .491. She has also made just two errors in 16 games at shortstop.

Pitcher
Shannon Murray - Lawrence
Freshman - Lawrenceville, Ga.
In her only mound action of the week, Murray tossed a perfect game in Lawrence’s 10-0 win over Alverno. Murray struck out five and did not walk a batter in throwing the second no-hitter in school history. Murray, who allowed only four balls to be hit out of the infield, also went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBIs and a run scored. Murray is now 5-1 on the season with a 2.31 earned run average. In the doubleheader series, Murray went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBIs.

April 14
Performer
Alex Goodson - First Base - Lawrence
Senior - Plainfield, Ill.
Goodson hit .706 in the five games of the MWC Classic this past weekend boasting a 12-for-17 performance with seven of those hits going for extra bases. She hit five homers, smacked a pair of doubles and drove in 13 runs. She compiled a 1.706 slugging percentage and a .737 on-base percentage for a staggering 2.443 OPS. Goodson’s best performance of the weekend came in a 9-6 win over Illinois C., where she went 4-for-4 with a double, two homers and three RBIs. Goodson is now hitting .500 for the season with seven doubles, five homers and 20 RBIs.

Pitcher
Kayla Krueger - St. Norbert
Senior - Denmark, Wis.
Krueger spun a 3-0 record during a 6-0 week for St. Norbert. Krueger did not allow a run in 21 innings pitched, yielding just seven hits with two walks and 15 strikeouts. Opponents hit just .100 against her for the week. Krueger is now 8-0 on the season.

April 19
Performer
Jodi Schroeder - Outfielder - Illinois College
Senior - Steeleville, Ill.
In four games this last weekend, Schroeder was 8-for-11. The Senior was 2-for-5 with 2 singles and 2 walks against Lake Forest College, and then went 6-for-6 in a doubleheader against Grinnell - including a 2 singles, 3 doubles, a triple and four RBI’s.

Pitcher
Jordan Ratliff - Lake Forest
Freshman - Petersburg, MI
Ratliff won two games and saved another as Lake Forest swept doubleheaders at Illinois College and Monmouth over the weekend. She allowed just one base hit in five scoreless innings while striking out two batters and walking one in Saturday’s opener at Illinois College. She also tossed three innings of scoreless relief to pick up the save in game two. On Sunday she limited Monmouth to three runs (one earned) on seven hits and struck out five in the complete game victory. Ratliff is now 9-4 with a 1.57 ERA on the year.

April 26
Performer
Alli Jensen - Catcher - Ripon
Senior - Steeleville, Ill.
Jensen helped Ripon clinch a spot in the 2010 MWC Tournament with a sweep of Beloit College on Thursday. In the first game against the Buccaneers, Jensen went 2-for-4 at the plate with a home run, two RBI and two runs scored. She went 1-for-3 with a double in the second game and stole one base in each game.

Pitcher
Kelsey Williams - Monmouth
Freshman - Ottawa, Ill
Williams didn’t give an earned run in two games last week. In Monmouth’s conference tournament-clinching 8-0 win over Grinnell Saturday, Williams fanned five, walked one and scattered six hits in the game shortened by the mercy rule. She took a hard-luck loss in extra innings Tuesday as the Scots fell to Greenville 1-0. Williams went 7.2 innings, surrendering only one unearned run in the contest. For the week, Williams recorded a 0.00 ERA in 13.2 innings with eight strikeouts and one walk.

May 3
Performer
Kacey Morrison - Third Base - Illinois College
Senior - Peotone, Ill
In six games last week, Morrison rapped out 11 hits in 19 at bats, scored seven runs, knocked in 13 runs and slugged three home runs. The Lady Blues won four of those six games. She was 4-for-4 in a 10-3 Game One win over Knox Saturday, and one of her hits was a grand slam. In Game Two vs. Knox, Morrison had a solo HR, knocked in four runs and went 2-for-4 with two runs scored in IC’s 12-1 victory. Morrison went 2-for-2 in her team’s Game One 8-0 victory over MacMurray April 27 and finished with two hits, including a home run, and 3 RBI. In Game Two vs. MacMurray, Morrison was 2-for-3 with 2 runs scored and an RBI in a 5-4 win.

Pitcher
Megan Butler - Monmouth
Sophomore - London Mills, Ill
Butler made the most of her opportunities in Sunday’s 5-4, 10-8 sweep of Cornell. Butler came on in relief in both games and picked up win and a save. In Game 1, Butler held the Rams in check over 2.2 innings, surrendering only an unearned run on five hits to pick up third win of the year in relief. In the nightcap, she pitched two scoreless innings, allowing just two base runners and no runs in that stretch to pick up her second save. In the Scots only action last week, Butler had a 0.00 ERA in 4.2 innings of work over the two games.