Albany’s Maegan Larsen (Carteret, N.J./Carteret) earns her first Player of the Week award of the 2005 season, while teammate Amanda Morin (Gansevoort, N.Y./South Glens Falls) garners her third-straight Pitcher of the Week award. Vermont’s Aimee Kern (Wrentham, Mass./King Philip) also earns her second Rookie of the Week award of the season as she continued her stellar freshman season with a pair of victories on the mound this past week, and is now 5-1 on the season. The awards were announced Monday (March 28).
Larsen drove in a team-high nine RBI for Albany in Florida and tied her career high for RBIs in a game with four in the Great Danes’ 8-0 victory over Niagara. She drove in three of those runs on a inside-the-park home run and then added an RBI single in the sixth inning. Larsen also had the game-winning RBI in two contests versus Troy and Siena. Against Troy, she drove in the game-winning run on a single as UAlbany won 2-1 in eight innings plus had the deciding triple that plated two in a 9-6 victory over Siena. Registered a hit in all six games and scored a run in five of six games.
Morin pitched all eight innings against Troy in a 2-1 victory for her fifth complete game of the season. Retired the final 15 batters she faced and pitched to the minimum in five of eight frames, scattered two hits and allowed just one unearned run. In the first game of the doubleheader versus Cornell, she pitched four innings, setting down nine in a row and striking out three. Set two UAlbany Division I records, 30.1 scoreless innings, and her current streak of 41 straight innings with no earned runs. The stretch of scoreless innings was the longest since 1995.
Kern went the distance in a 5-3 win over Siena on March 22, only allowing one earned run while striking out six batters. The freshman would follow that up on March 24 with a no-hitter against Niagara. Kern struck out six while only allowing one unearned run in a game shortened due to the NCAA eight-run rule, as Vermont won 9-1. For the week she went 2-0 with 12 strikeouts and only one earned run.