MIAA names baseball, softball top players

Published 1:38 am Wednesday, April 1, 2009

By Staff
ADRIAN – The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Conference has announced that Holly Lowe and Kelly Tomasek have been honored as Players of the Week. Lowe hit .412 to earn Position Player of the Week.
Tomasek wrapped up Pitcher of the Week with a 4-0 record on the mound.
Lowe, a sophomore from Dowagiac, hit .412 (7-for-17) at the plate and scored nine runs last week as the Bulldogs continued their torrid start with six consecutive wins.
In a doubleheader against Albion, Lowe went 3-for-8, scored five runs and drove in two more as the Bulldogs swept the Britons, 7-3 and 6-3, to raise their mark to 21-1.
Kelly Tomasek, also a sophomore (Linden HS), posted a 4-0 record last week, allowing just two earned runs and 11 hits in 22-2/3 innings of work.
She pitched all nine innings in a 6-3 extra-innings victory over Albion, and also struck out nine in a three-hit, 2-0 shutout over Defiance, Ohio.
Tomasek is 12-0 so far this season with a 0.47 ERA, and has fanned 77 batters in 74-1/3 innings.
The MIAA has named Olivet College first baseman Scott Purdy, Alma College third baseman Jeremy Stephens and Calvin College pitcher Ben Sietsema its Players of the Week in baseball for the week ending March 29.
Position Players of the Week
Purdy, a senior from Traverse City (West HS), hit .417 (5-for-12) and drove in five runs in leading the Comets to three wins in a four-game series with Hope.
In a 13-5 Olivet win over the Flying Dutchmen, he went 3-for-4 with two doubles and three RBI.
Stephens, a senior from Maple Rapids (Fulton-Middleton HS), went 5-for-6 with three doubles at the plate in a doubleheader against Adrian. He went 3-for-3 and scored a run in a 3-2 loss to the Bulldogs in game one, then followed with a 2-for-3 performance in game two.
Pitcher of the Week
Sietsema, a junior righthander from Ada (NorthPointe Christian HS), tossed a two-hitter for his first career shutout as the Knights blanked Kalamazoo, 6-0.
In his seven innings of work, Sietsema struck out four and walked one as he faced only 22 batters, one over the minimum.