University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Cajuns Sweep Weekly Sun Belt Honors Again
4/25/2005 12:00:00 AM | Softball
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LAFAYETTE
– For the second straight week the 14th-ranked Louisiana's
Ragin' Cajuns softball program has swept the weekly Sun Belt
Conference honors.
Danyele Gomez was named Player of the Week while Brooke Mitchell was tabbed Pitcher of the Week by the league office on Monday following the Ragin' Cajuns (38-7, 12-0 Sun Belt) perfect 6-0 week which included another Sun Belt Conference series sweep.
Gomez (.348, 6 doubles, 13 home runs, 44 RBI) finished the week with a .526 batting average (10-for-19) collecting two doubles, three home runs and 14 RBI as she vaulted her way into the team lead for home runs (13) and RBI (14). In the North Texas series sweep, Gomez hit .500 (6-for-12) with one double, two home runs and a team-high 9 RBI.
The Metairie native blasted two, three-run home runs in last Saturday's second game against NT as she recorded her third multi-home run game of the season and tied her career-high with six RBI. Her slugging percentage for the entire week was 1.105 as she piled up 21 total bases in 19 at bats.
Gomez went 8-for-11 with runners in scoring position (.727) and contributed 9 two-out RBI.
Mitchell (24-6, 0.70 ERA, 302 K) extended her personal win streak to seven games with three victories last week helping her climb to No. 11 on the all-time NCAA Division I victories list at 115 career victories (115-26). The senior ace hurler piled up 36 strikeouts while holding opponents to a .097 batting average and seven hits in three complete games.
Mitchell
tallied double digit strikeouts in all three appearances
including a pair of 13-strikeout efforts in the Sun Belt
series with North Texas. In the NT series, Mitchell was 2-0
with a 0.50 ERA allowing only five hits over 14 innings.
Her 11th strikeout in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader with North Texas was her 300th of the season allowing her to eclipse 300 strikeouts for the second straight season. Earlier in the week, Mitchell cracked the NCAA Division I all-time Top 10 strikeouts list with her second strikeouts in game one of the ULM doubleheader.
Mitchell now stands at 1,269 career strikeouts placing her 11 shy of tying former Louisiana-Monroe pitcher Sarah Dawson for ninth place on the NCAA DI career list.
Mitchell collected the Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week honor for the 16th time in her career and fifth time this season.
The Ragin' Cajuns have now won 45 Sun Belt weekly honors in four-plus seasons under former Ragin' Cajuns All-American and current head coach Stefni Lotief. This week's awards run the Cajuns season total of Sun Belt weekly honors to 10.
No. 14 Louisiana-Lafayette returns to action on Wednesday, April 27 as the Ragin' Cajuns travel to Thibodaux to face Nicholls State (16-32) in a 4 p.m. doubleheader at Colonel Diamond. Following the Nicholls twinbill, the Cajuns travel to Bowling Green, Ky., for a four-game Sun Belt series with Western Kentucky Saturday-Sunday, April 30-May 1.
2005 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE SOFTBALL WEEKLY HONORS
Player of the Week
Feb. 21 - Jill Robertson
Mar. 14 - Crystal George
Apr. 18 - Jill Robertson
Apr. 25 - Danyele Gomez
Pitcher of the Week
Feb. 21 - Brooke Mitchell
Feb. 28 - Brooke Mitchell
Mar. 7 - Brooke Mitchell
Mar. 14 - Brooke Mitchell
Apr. 18 - Heather Bobbitt
Apr. 25 - Brooke Mitchell
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