United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics - Softball - Feindel, Frederick Earn NEWMAC Weekly Honors

Hayley Feindel won NEWMAC Pitcher of the Week honors for the fourth time this season as she threw three shutouts and a pair of no-hitters in the tournament.

NEW LONDON, CONN.--(5/3/10)--Sophomore pitcher Hayley Feindel and junior catcher Amanda Frederick were named the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Pitcher and Player of the Week after leading Coast Guard to its first NEWMAC tournament championship last week.

The Bear battery mates both earn the honors for the second straight week. Feindel wins the honor for the fourth time this season while Frederick takes home Player of the Week honors for the third time this season.

Feindel threw three shutouts including a pair of no-hitters and a one-hitter in the tournament. She was 4-1 with a 1.06 ERA in the five games. She threw 33 innings and allowed 14 hits, five runs, all earned while walking 10 and striking out 41. She held opponents to a .125 batting average.

She opened the tournament with a five inning no-hitter while striking out nine in a 8-0 win over Wellesley. She also fired a no-hitter with nine strikeouts in a 3-0 win over Babson. In the first championship game, she allowed just one hit in a 1-0 win over Springfield to force the second championship game.

Amanda Frederick earned Player of the Week honors for the third time this season.

Feindel (28-8) leads the NEWMAC with 28 wins, a 0.96 ERA and she leads the nation with 331 strikeouts and 13 shutouts.

Frederick led the team with a .438 batting average (7-16) in the tournament with three runs scored and an RBI. Frederick, one of the top catchers in the region, is also valuable to the team behind the plate where she was on the receiving end of the Bears three shutouts and had 41 putouts and three assists without making an error.

The junior catcher leads the team with a .464 batting average, 15 doubles, 38 runs scored, 41 RBI’s, a .776 slugging percentage, a .478 on base percentage and she is second on the team and in the conference with eight home runs.

The Bears, who are 30-8 on the season, won their second straight NEWMAC regular season championship before earning the programs first automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Coast Guard received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament last season, its first NCAA tournament appearance, and advanced to the New England region championship game and finished with a school record 39 wins and a 39-7-1 record.

The NCAA tournament field will be announced on Monday, May 10th.