Pfeiffer softball duo earn ECAC top honors
Published 2:19 pm Thursday, May 30, 2019
- The 2019 Pfeiffer University softball team claimed the ECAC Div. III championship last weekend. From left, front row: Vada Blue Sherrill, Mackenzie Pennell and Kiana Millsaps; middle row: Hallie Chisholm, Sarah Bowles, Carson Watkins, Reece Davis, Caiti Mickles, Taylor Jerome and Paige Love; back row: Kayla Miller, Maranda Benton, Alexis Walter, Emerson Puzey, Alyssa Heitz, Sara Brown, Kyndle Wallace, Kari Westerbeek and Hannah Tyner.(Contributed)
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The postseason honors keep rolling in for Pfeiffer softball as a pair of players have earned postseason awards from the ECAC.
Senior shortstop Vada Blue Sherrill earned her second-straight ECAC Player of the Year award while fellow senior pitcher Kiana Milsaps was named First Team All-ECAC.
This past season Sherrill batted .482 with 58 RBIs and led the USA South in home runs (15), stolen bases (52), runs scored (75) and doubles (18). Sherrill delivered a .936 fielding percentage at shortstop for the Falcons.
Sherrill is the program’s leader in every major offensive category and became the only person in NCAA history regardless of division to have 200 or more hits (251), runs scored (255), RBIs (200) and stolen bases (201).
Senior pitcher Kiana Millsaps earned first team All-ECAC honors after going 28-4 this past season while pitching 166 innings, striking out 87 and posting a 1.90 ERA. She limited the opposition to 45 earned runs while walking 24 batters.
Offensively, Millsaps hit 383 with 43 RBI, seven doubles and10 home runs with a .532 slugging percentage.
She was also named the ECAC MVP after earning all three Pfeiffer wins in the tournament in the Falcons run at winning their second-straight ECAC title.
– Pfeiffer Sports Information
