University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Brooke Mitchell Claims Another Sun Belt Weekly Award
4/12/2004 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Monday, April 12, 2004
LAFAYETTE–Louisiana-Lafayette
junior ace hurler Brooke Mitchell added another gem to
her stash of honors this season when she was named the
Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Week on Monday.The 2004 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Award finalist picked up her league-high seventh honor for her efforts in leading the eighth-ranked Ragin' Cajuns (35-4, 3-0 Sun Belt) to three wins this past weekend at New Mexico State.
The Cajuns have now won 33 weekly honors in three-plus seasons under former Ragin' Cajuns All-American and current head coach Stefni Lotief. Louisiana-Lafayette has now picked up 10 weekly awards this season including seven of the nine pitcher awards handed out.
The Pasadena, Texas, native has now won the weekly award 10 times in her career.
Mitchell
picked up all three wins for the Cajuns this past
weekend at New Mexico State increasing her season win
total to 29 and her personal winning streak to seven
games. Her overall record now stands at 29-3 and her ERA
a microscopic 0.56.
Her win in the first game of the series set her personal single-season best and the win in the third game moved her into the Top 5 on the single-season charts and within one of fourth on the career list.
She tossed 11 innings versus the Aggies, allowing just four hits while striking out 16 in abbreviated ppearances. The Pasadena, Texas, native combined with freshman Heather Bobbitt for two shutouts and held the Aggies to a .114 batting average.
The right-handed hurler did not allow an eared run as she extended her streak of consecutive innings without an earned run allowed to 24 2/3 innings.
Mitchell's
fourth strikeout of the second game Saturday against
NMSU was the 800th of her career making her just the
second pitcher in program history to reach 800
strikeouts.
She currently has 804 career whiffs and needs 16 to tie Kyla Hall's career record of 820 set from 1991-94.
Mitchell and her teammates will be back in action on Wednesday, April 14, as the Cajuns travel to Ruston for a 4 p.m. doubleheader against Louisiana Tech. The twinbill will mark the end of Louisiana-Lafayette's current eight-game road trip.
Following the La. Tech double-dip, the Ragin' Cajuns will be back at the friendly confines of Ragin' Cajuns Softball Park for a Sun Belt series against Florida International (22-23, 4-0 Sun Belt).
2004 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE SOFTBALL WEEKLY HONORS
Hitter of
the Week
Feb. 17 - Holly Tankersley
March 2 - Holly Tankersley
April 5 - Holly Tankersley
Pitcher of
the Week
Feb. 17 - Brooke Mitchell
Feb. 24 - Brooke Mitchell
March 2 - Brooke Mitchell
March 9 - Brooke Mitchell
March 22 - Brooke Mitchell
April 5 - Brooke Mitchell
April 12 - Brooke Mitchell
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