 FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE- Contact: Gary
Holden, Sports Information Director
- (540) 365-4306
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- April 16, 2003
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- Softball Players Earn All-Conference
- Porter Earns All-Conference at Pitcher and Designated Player
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- Ferrum, Va. -- Two Ferrum College softball
players have been named to the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference's 2003 Al-Conference softball team. The voting
was done this morning in a conference call among the league's
sports information directors.
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- Sophomore Stacy
Porter (Radford, Va./Radford) earned first team All-Conference
at the designated player spot, and was a second team selection as
a pitcher. This is Porter's second All-Conference honor,
having earned first team honors as a pitcher last year.
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- Porter, pictured at right, is currently batting
.419 this season with 10 home runs, two triples, four home runs,
and 22 RBI. She also has a 1.44 ERA in 92.1 innings on the
mound. Porter has an 8-6 record with 122 strikeouts this
season.
Junior Lindsay Cox
(Waldorf, Md./LaPlata) has been named to the All-Conference
first team at third base. She is batting .373 with a double,
4our triples, one home run, and 15 RBI. This is Cox's third
All-Conference honor, having earned second team honors the past
two years.
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- Ferrum heads into the 2003 Dixie Conference Tournament this
weekend in Tarboro, North Carolina, with a 17-14 overall
record. The Panthers finished 5-9 in the Dixie.
Results will be posted on the Ferrum athletics web site throughout
the weekend. For more information, contact the sports information office at (540) 365-4306.
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