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Hayley Feindel continued to collect the postseason honors as she was named ECAC Division III New England Pitcher and Rookie of the Year.
NEW LONDON, CONN.--(5/27/09)--Coast Guard Academy freshman pitcher Hayley Feindel has been named the ECAC Division III New England Pitcher and Rookie of the Year while Feindel, junior Courtney Wolf and sophomore Amanda Frederick were all named to the ECAC New England All-Star first team.

Feindel had an outstanding season leading the Bears to their first ever New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) regular season title and NCAA tournament berth. Coast Guard became the first team to go unbeaten in NEWMAC play as the Bears posted a 15-0-1 mark and finished with a school record 39 wins and a 39-7-1 record.

Coast Guard advanced all the way to the NCAA New England Regional championship game before losing to top-seeded Tufts.

Feindel, the New England Softball Coaches Association (NEISCA) New England Player of the Year, was also named first team All-New England by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) as well as NEWMAC Pitcher and Rookie of the Year. She led the nation with 34 wins and posted a 34-6 record with 382 strikeouts, 13 shutouts and a 1.24 ERA. She shattered the single-season school record for wins, which was 26 set by Katie Wunderlich in 1999 and strikeouts which was 203 by Colleen Perry in 2006 while throwing a school-record 288 innings.

Wolf led the team with a .371 batting average, broke the old school record of nine homers set by Suzie Van der Veer in 2002, by belting 14 homers while also driving in 47 runs, just two shy of Van der Veer’s record 49 in 2002. Wolf is now the Bears’ career-leader with 19 homers. Wolf was a second team All-region selection by both the NEISCA and the NFCA as well as earning first team All-conference honors.

Frederick, who was second with a .366 average, led the team with 11 doubles and was second in homers (4) and RBI’s (42). She was also named second team All-region by the NEISCA and the NFCA while earning first team All-conference.