New York, NY – The Sage Colleges' softball team had two players honored by the Skyline Conference with the announcement of the Players of the Week. For the second straight week two of Sage's players were recognized as senior pitcher Kelsey Newberg (New Britain, CT/New Britain) was named the Pitcher of the Week and junior short stop Hillary Faas (East Greenbush, NY/Columbia) was named the Player of the Week.
Newberg went 3-1 on the week over four starts with two complete games and 1.75 earned run average as Sage secured the third seed in this week's Skyline Championship. She fanned 15 batters in 21 innings pitched, while holding opponents to a .219 batting average. She collected the win on April 21 in the Gators' 10-5 win at Mount Saint Mary, which secured the team of its second consecutive Skyline Conference appearance.
She broke the career wins plateau with her 28th victory in the contest and surpassed the mark set by Kim Fredenburgh (27). In addition, Newberg has now pitched in 59 games (No. 4) on the career list, with 36 complete games (No. 5), and continues to add to her other career mark for most strikeouts (257). On the season, she is 8-7 with a 2.97 ERA and 70 K's in 92 IP. She has added a .304 batting average at the plate with 5 doubles and 2 triples. On her career as a batter, she owns a .299 average with 93 hits in 103 games played and 12 doubles.
Faas, who was also last week's Skyline Conference Player of the Week, batted .364 (8-for-22) with six runs scored and six RBI as Sage won three-of-four contests in league play to earn the No. 3 seed in the 2013 Skyline Tournament. She cracked three doubles and a home run and added three walks and had three multi-hit performances.
On the season, she has a .354 batting average, while also leading the Gators with her 25 RBIs. Faas has 10 doubles with five home runs. She has now played in 108 games (No. 10), while adding 352 at-bats (No. 4), 128 hits (No. 4), 31 doubles (No. 3), 13 home runs (No. 3) with 83 runs scored (No. 4), and 82 RBIs (No. 2).
The Gators will be back in action on April 26-28 at the 2013 Skyline Conference Softball Championship, which will be held at Purchase College.
2013 Skyline Softball Championship
Friday, Apr. 26
Game 1 - No. 4 St. Joseph's-L.I. at No. 1 NYU-Poly - (SJC won 5-3)
Game 2 - No. 2 Farmingdale State vs. No. 3 Sage - (FSC won 8-0)
Saturday, Apr. 27
Game 3 - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 - (SJC vs. FSC) 10:00 a.m.
Game 4 - Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 - (NYU-Poly vs. Sage) 1:00 p.m.
Game 5 - Loser Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4 - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, Apr. 28
Game 6 - Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 5 - 11:00 a.m.
Game 7 - If necessary - 2:00 p.m.
(all games at Purchase College)
