Giosia, MacFawn, Costello Earn Softball Weekly Honors

Giosia, MacFawn, Costello Earn Softball Weekly Honors

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Stony Brook and Albany each swept America East softball series over the weekend and two players who keyed those sweeps have earned the league's weekly awards for the week ending March 31. The honorees were announced Monday afternoon.

Stony Brook's Shayla Giosia picked up Player of the Week accolades while Albany's Brittany MacFawn is the Pitcher of the Week and Kelly Costello is the Rookie of the Week.

Giosia (Runnemede, N.J./Gloucester Catholic) earned Player of the Week honors by hitting .467 (7-for-15) and slugging .733 in five games last week, while driving in seven runs and scoring six. The sophomore outfielder also walked four times and had a .579 on-base percentage for the week. Giosia's best game of the week came in an 8-7 win over Long Island Wednesday as she went 2-for-4, including a three-run home run, and knocked in four.

MacFawn (Orlando, Fla.) was nearly perfect on the mound last week en route to earning Pitcher of the Week accolades. The junior righthander allowed just one run on one hit in two wins over Hartford and fired the second no-hitter of her career. MacFawn n0-hit Hartford Friday in Albany's 1-0 win, striking 10 while walking none. She followed up with a one-hitter, allowing just a solo home run, and fanning nine in a 2-1 win Saturday.

Costello (Windsor, N.Y.) went 3-for-5 with a walk in three games last week, all Albany wins, as she picked up her first Rookie of the Week award. The freshman outfielder got a hit in her only official at-bat in a 1-0 win over Hartford Friday, driving in what proved to be the winning run in the sixth. She then went 2-for-3, including a homer, and drove in three in the nightcap, a 9-4 Great Danes' win.  

In addition to Albany's and Stony Brook's sweeps, Binghamton took two out of three games from Boston University.

2013 America East Softball Weekly Award Winners
Feb. 18 – Player of the Week: Kristen Koslosky (Maine); Pitcher of the Week: Kate Price (Binghamton); Rookie of the Week: Sydney Harbaugh (Binghamton)
Feb. 25 – Player of the Week: Shayla Giosia (Stony Brook); Pitcher of the Week: Christine Lucido (Pitcher); Rookie of the Week: Bridget O'Malley (UMBC)
March 4 – Player of the Week: Taylor Hall (UMBC); Pitcher of the Week: Heather Brown (UMBC); Rookie of the Week: Maggie Cocks (Albany)
March 11 - Player of the Week: Kayla Margentino (UMBC); Pitcher of the Week: Zuzana Kudernatschova (Hartford); Rookie of the Week: Lisa Cadogan (Binghamton)
March 18 - Player of the Week: Lisa Cadogan (Binghamton); Pitcher of the Week: Allison Cukrov (Stony Brook); Rookie of the Week: Annie Johnson (Albany)
March 25 - Player of the Week: Vicky MacFarland (Albany); Pitcher of the Week: Zuzana Kudernatschova (Hartford); Lisa Cadogan (Binghamton)
April 1 - Player of the Week: Shayla Giosia (Stony Brook); Pitcher of the Week: Brittany MacFawn (Albany); Kelly Costello (Albany)