COMPLETE
NORTHEAST-10 RELEASE
SOUTH EASTON, Mass.
- Four members of the Southern New Hampshire University
softball team have been named to the Northeast-10 Conference
all-conference team, it was announced Friday afternoon.
Seniors Nicole Arpin (Cheshire, CT) and
Ashley Bernstein (Stoughton, MA) and sophomore
Kelsey Griffin (Scarborough, ME) were Second Team
selections, while Karissa Bettencourt (Norton, MA)
was named to the league's Third Team.
Arpin was one of two players to
start all 45 games this season. She batted a team-high .304
with five home runs and a team-high 24 runs batted in. Arpin
recorded 10 multi-hit games on the season and was named
Northeast-10 Player of the Week on April 20 after she batted .462
in a 6-2 week, capping off the week with three home runs in a
doubleheader sweep of Molloy.
Bernstein played in all 45 games
this season and was in the strating lineup 44 times as she became
SNHU's all-time leader in games played. Her .301 batting
average placed her second on the squad while she hit five home runs
and drove in 16 runs on the season. As a pitcher she ranked
third with five victories while her 38 strikeouts were second on
SNHU.
Griffin, in her first season with
the Penmen, established herself as one of the NE-10's top
pitchers. She posted a 1.65 earned run average in 20
appearances (10 starts), placing her fifth in the conference in
ERA, while she struck out 89 in 89 innings of work en route to a
6-4 record. Griffin ranked 10th in the NE-10 in
strikeouts while her .227 opponent batting average was ninth-best
in the league.
Bettencourt, who earned
Northeast-10 All-Conference accolades for the third time in her
career, started all 45 games and had two home runs and 14 runs
batted in while batting .250 with 19 runs scored, second on the
squad. She also had a team-high 14 outfield assists from her
center field position.
The SNHU softball team finished
fifth in the Northeast-10 with a 17-11 conference record and earned
a berth in the NE-10 Tournament for the third time in four seasons.