Stony Brook’s Hayley Durham (San Jose, Calif./San Lorenzo Valley) and Boston University’s Jamie Haas (Houston, Texas/Klein) share Player of the Week honors, while Ashlee Freeman (Northrdige, Calif./Oaks Christian) of Boston University earns her first Pitcher of the Week award of the season and Albany’s Amber Maisonet (Newburgh, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy) garners her second Rookie of the Week award of the season. The accolades were announced on Monday (April 25).
Durham broke out of her recent slump with a solid week for the Seawolves, batting .381 with eight hits including a pair of home runs and doubles, six RBI, three runs and 16 total bases while slugging .762. She opened the week with a pair of doubles versus Marist before going 4-for-7 with three RBI and a two runs in the series at Sacred Heart. In a double header sweep of UMBC, she belted a two-run home run in Game 1 to give SBU a 2-0 lead as they went on to a 7-0 victory before drawing a bases-loaded walk to drive in the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning of the nightcap, completing SB’s come back from a five-run deficit to earn a 6-5 win. During the week, Haas led the team in batting (.462), runs (4), hits (6), and on-base percentage (.533) and to a perfect 4-0 mark. In a 4-2 win at Boston College on Tuesday, Haas went 3-for-4 with two runs scored. She sparked the Terriers’ two-run seventh inning with an infield single, scoring the first of the two runs. In a 1-0 win over Dartmouth on Thursday, she had the game-winning RBI, beating the throw to first on a bunt, allowing the go-ahead run to come in the backdoor. She also had a two-run double in a 7-1 win over Vermont on Sunday.
Freeman went 3-0 last week with a 1.03 earned run average. In a 1-0 win over Dartmouth on Thursday, she came within one out of recording her first career no-hitter, allowing Dartmouth only one single in the shutout win. She was just as sharp in a 7-1 win at Vermont on Sunday, giving up only four hits and one run in a complete-game effort. She then pitched 6.2 innings in a 4-2 win at Boston College on Tuesday, allowing only six hits and two runs. In 20.1 innings of work during the week, she allowed only 11 hits and three earned runs. Opposing batters hit only .157 against her.
She had three multi-hit games, including two 3-for-4 performances this past week, at Army and at Maine. She scored two runs at Army to go along with her three hits, and at Maine plated two runs with her three-hit performance. At Maine on April 23, she had two hits, two RBI and a run scored in the Great Danes’ 7-0 victory. For the week she hit an impressive .471.