INDIANAPOLIS – Kentucky Wesleyan and Ohio Dominican were represented in the most recent pairing of Great Midwest Athletic Conference Softball Players of the Week.
Team continue to complete re-scheduled contests with their sights set on the postseason in the Great Midwest Championship which takes place in Xenia, Ohio, on May 3-5.
Cedarville and Ohio Dominican are two teams to have clinched their playoff bids while several teams are close to completing their minimum number of league games to make the postseason.
Six more spots in the Great Midwest Championship bracket remain up for grabs.
Player of the Week
Meredith Daunhauer
Kentucky Wesleyan
Outfield
Junior
Evansville, IN (Mater Dei HS)
After hitting .457 last spring, the junior NCAA All-American and former G-MAC Freshman of the Year Daunhauer is writing more conference history in her third season at the college level.
She is well on her way to hitting over .400 for the third consecutive year.
This week was no different for the conference league leader in hits as the junior went 13-for-29, which comes out to a .448 weekly average in eight games. She hit leadoff in each of those contests and had eight stolen bases, with least one in each of the last six games.
In her last four contests, which were conference games against Davis & Elkins and Alderson Broaddus, Daunhauer went 10-for-16 with three runs batted in and six runs scored and led the Panthers to wins in three of those four contests.
Six of her eight stolen bases came in those games and all four were on the road in West Virginia. Kentucky Wesleyan was the preseason coaches poll favorite and the Panthers are looking to defend their conference tournament title.
Daunhauer is the conference’s all-time leading batting champion with an average of .431 in 540 at-bats. She also leads all players in conference history in both hits (233) and stolen bases (111). The speedy junior is also second all-time in runs scored with 128 in less than three seasons.
Pitcher of the Week
Abby Lamping
Ohio Dominican
RHP
Junior
Cleves, OH (Seton HS)
Lamping is the second junior from the league to earn honors for her efforts as she played a large part in the circle during Ohio Dominican’s current 19-game winning streak.
The Panthers have cemented themselves near the top of the conference and one reason why is because of their pitching staff. Ohio Dominican has two players in the top 10 in earned run average with Lamping coming in at number three on that list with a 1.83 ERA and a 13-6 record.
She pitched in two contests over the last seven days and picked up victories in both. In her first game against Ursuline, she went five innings, which ended up being a complete game. She gave up just two runs on two hits and struck out four as the Panthers took down the Arrows, 10-2.
The second game was a gem against Lake Erie where she engaged in a pitchers duel against the Storm’s Ashley Brown. Lamping pitched a seven-inning shutout where she allowed just two hits and struck out six.