WESTFIELD, Mass. – Westfield State softball put five players on the MASCAC All-Conference Team highlighted by three picks on the first team, as voted by the league's coaches.
Senior outfielders Lindsay Cordopatri (Walpole, Mass.) and Colleen Hughes (Hanson, Mass.), and junior catcher Christina Ciampa (Rockville, Conn./Vernon-Rockville HS) were named to the first team, while junior second baseman Megan Metzger (Uxbridge, Mass./Blackstone Regional) and sophomore pitcher Stephanie Scoville (Northfield, Mass./Pioneer Valley) were second team picks under Owls' first-year head coach Skania Valencia.
Cordopatri finished the year with a .436 batting average after a 15-game hitting streak at mid-season. She led the league in runs scored (44) and on-base percentage (.555) was third in batting average and stolen bases (21).
Hughes led the Owls in hitting with a .439 batting aveage this season. She led the conference in hits with 50, and finished second in the conference in hitting, rbi (37) and doubles (11).
Ciampa cracked the top 10 in the league with a .333 batting average. She hit two home runs and scored 21 runs , and she fielded .971 for the year and threw out 17 percent of would-be base stealers.
Metzger hit .307 for the season with a home run and 10 runs batted in while playing a steady second base. She fielded .989 on the season with just one error in 95 chances and helped spin five double plays.
Scoville evolved into the Owls top starting pitcher in her second season. 9-7 with a 4.17 earned-run average, but appeared to get stronger as the season evolved and was at her best in conference play, where she had a 6-1 record with two saves and a 2.29 ERA.
Westfield got off to a slow start to its season, seeing several days rained out on their Florida trip, which necessitated a four-game closing day of the journey, and started the season 1-9, before rattling off a 15-5 stretch up north before entering the post season.
Westfield finished 10-4 in the league's regular season (18-19 overall) and won a tie- breaker for the third seed in the conference tournament before being upset in the first round of the league playoffs.