University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Brooke Mitchell Named Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week
2/17/2003 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Brooke Mitchell Named Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week
Monday, Feb. 17, 2003
LAFAYETTE – The season got off to a “perfect” start for Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns softball pitcher Brooke Mitchell last week and on Tuesday she was rewarded with the Sun Belt Conference's first Pitcher of the Week Award for the 2003 regular season.
The Pasadena, Texas, native finished the week with a 2-1 record and allowed only one earned run in 17 innings of work in the pitcher's circle for the Ragin' Cajuns and enters this week's action sporting a 0.41 ERA.
Mitchell began the season in fine fashion, tossing a five-inning perfect game against Louisiana Tech last Tuesday. She struck out five Lady Techsters, walked none and hit none in tossing the first perfect outing of her collegiate career and sixth shutout.
She ended the week striking out 25 batters and walking only two in 17 innings. She struck out 12 batters Friday in a hard-luck 2-0 loss to Tulsa – one in which the Golden Hurricane won on a two-out error in the bottom of the sixth inning.
In her final start of the week she tossed a complete-game four-hitter against Auburn while striking out eight in leading Louisiana-Lafayette to a 9-1 mercy-rule rout of the SEC-member Tigers.
Mitchell finished the ULM Mardi Gras Classic with 20 strikeouts over 13 innings. She allowed just nine hits the entire week. She has 189 career strikeouts and needs just 11 more to reach 200 in her brief career.
Mitchell and her Ragin' Cajuns softball teammates return to the diamond Wednesday, Feb. 19 in a 5 p.m. doubleheader at Nicholls State. The Cajuns next home game is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 28 in the opening round of the 17th Annual Louisiana Classics at 4:15 p.m. against McNeese State.
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