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Watkins First Team All-Pac West
5/22/2008 7:09:49 PM | Softball
Softball
5-22-08
Watkins First Team All-Pac West
Grand Canyon junior second baseman Yasmeen Watkins (Phoenix/Sunnyslope HS) was named to the First Team All-PacWest squad.
Watkins was also chosen the league's Newcomer of the Year. GCU junior first baseman Randi Johns (Waddell, Ariz./Millennium HS), junior outfielder Tana Holtorf (Peoria, Ariz./Sunrise Mountain HS) and senior utility player Michelle Farrell (Tempe, Ariz./Corona del Sol HS) were second team selections.
"I'm obviously pleased about Yas, with her first team and Newcomer of the Year honors," GCU coach Ann Pierson said. "I'm pleased we had three other kids who had representation on the all-conference team. It's nice to see that we have four kids on the team, and we have work to do for next year. We have kids that certainly were deserving of being selected, and that will give them some motivation for next year."
A transfer from Central Arizona College, Watkins led the Antelopes in hitting with a .405 average and 62 RBI, and set a school season record for home runs with 13. She had 62 hits, 11 doubles, a .732 slugging percentage, a .447 on-base percentage and was successful in eight of 10 stolen base attempts.
Johns (pictured lower left) batted .367 with 12 home runs, 42 RBI, nine doubles and one triple this season. She led the team with a .478 on-base percentage and had a .687 slugging percentage, and was hit by a team-high 13 pitches. Johns holds school career records for batting average (.403), hits (188), home runs (25), RBI (126), doubles (38), runs scored (103) and hit by pitch (33). She was a second team all-conference selection as a designated player/flex in 2007.
Holtorf (pictured upper left) batted .324 with a team-best 13 doubles, 35 RBI, one triple and one home run. She had a .429 slugging percentage and .368 on-base percentage.
Farrell (pictured right) batted .303 with seven doubles, one home run, 16 RBI, a .373 slugging percentage and .313 on-base percentage, and was hit by seven pitches. As a pitcher, Farrell went 12-12 with a 4.21 ERA and 78 strikeouts in 156 1/3 innings pitched.
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