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Jellish and Van
Abel Land First-Team All-WIAC Softball Honors
A pair of former high school teammates at
UW-Stevens Point were selected to the all-Wisconsin Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference softball squad as junior centerfielder Mandy Jellish
and sophomore shortstop Laura Van Abel were both named to the first team.
The two former Kaukauna High School standouts
were joined by another previous Galloping Ghosts player as sophomore third
baseman Laura Zierler was named to the honorable mention squad. Senior
leftfielder Rebekah Bauer was also an honorable mention selection.
Jellish led the league in hitting with a .442
average, which also ranked as the fourth-highest single-season average in
school history. Her 61 hits shared the league lead and were also the
fourth-highest total in Pointers� history. Jellish, who also earned
first-team honors in 2004, led the team and ranked third in the conference
with 35 runs scored.
Van Abel was third in the league in batting with
a .427 average and led the conference with four triples. Her nine stolen
bases ranked sixth in the league. She was among the conference�s top
fielding shortstops with just five errors in 79 chances and also spent
time at first base. Van Abel missed six straight starts with a broken
hand, but had some of her best performances with the injury, hitting .483
(14-for-29) over the last nine games of the year.
Zierler received honorable mention laurels for
the second straight year while hitting .319 with 23 RBI�s. She also ranked
seventh in the league with nine doubles and finished the season with hits
in 11 of the last 12 regular season games.
Bauer, a Stevens Point native, finished her
career as UW-Stevens Point�s career leader with 44 doubles and 60 extra
base hits. A first-team all-WIAC selection the past two seasons, Bauer led
the conference with 35 RBI�s and ranked second with 14 doubles while
hitting .323 this season.
UW-Eau Claire�s Casey Leisgang and UW-Oshkosh�s
Whitney Tyriver shared Position Player of the Year honors. The two schools
also shared the Pitcher of the Year award as the Blugolds� Mallory
McKinney and the Titans� Ronessa Stampfli were both honored. UW-Eau Claire
coach Leslie Huntington collected her second straight Coach of the Year
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