Five Wildcats have started all 47 games this season: 1b Doucette, c Lepp,
2b Hartman, lf Hubrich and 3b Prestianni
ss Keagbine has started 45 games and cf Baxter 43
--Velaski has been the starting pitcher in 26 games and Harvey has started 17 games. Velaski started all four regional games, allowing no runs (0) in 21 innings pitched. In the first two she allowed one hit (a bunt single) in 11 innings.
Linfield has won 34 consecutive games and has a 45-2 record. The last game Linfield lost was on March 18, 8-7 in eight innings to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in a multi-team event at Chapman in Orange, Calif.
--The Wildcats’ 47 victories ties the school record set in 2007, the year Linfield won the NCAA Division III championship. They have broken the record of fewest losses with 2; the record is 6 and the most Linfield can lose in the double-elimination nationals would be 2 more for a total of 4.
Catcher Emilee Lepp has handled 262 straight chances without making an error. Her only error of the season came in the second inning of the second game, against Whitworth. Her fielding percentage is .996.
1b Doucette also has 1 error in 47 games and 3b Prestianni has 2 errors in 47 games.
Linfield’s team fielding percentage is .966 with a total of 42 errors in 47 games.
The school records for highest percentage (.981) and fewest errors (22) were both set in 2008.
--More than half of Linfield’s victories (23 of 44) have been “mercy” victories: The games have been terminated after 5 or 6 innings because Linfield was ahead by at least 8 runs
The Wildcats have already broken several major team offensive records: = 95 home runs (obliterating the mark of 78 set last year);
= 434 runs scored, surpassing 409 by 2007’s national championship team;
= 413 RBIs, beating 2007’s total of 357 set in five more games.
= 917 total bases, far beyond the 852 by the 2007 national champions.
...and are on track to break some others:
= .400 batting average; the record is .388 set by that great 2007 team;
= .699 slugging average, more than 100 points above last year’s .592
= 9.23 runs per game; the 2007 champions averaged 7.87
= .474 on-base average; the record is .433 set in 2007
Linfield pitchers’ aggregate (team) earned run average is 1.74 earned runs per game; opponents’ team earned run average is 9.37 earned runs per game
Holding all four opponents scoreless in the regional, the Wildcats broke the school record for shutouts with 18; it was 16 in 2004
Linfield made no errors in its first three NCAA regional games; the Wildcats have played 21 errorless games this season, in spite of often playing on infields that were not in top condition because of the wet Northwest spring.
Lepp has gotten multiple hits (two or more) in 26 games, including 19 two-hit games. Keagbine and Doucette each have had 23 multiple-hit games and Hubrich has had 22.
Lepp has had 25 multiple-RBI games; Doucette has had 20.
Lepp and Doucette will take nine-game hitting streaks into the nationals. Longest this season was Doucette’s 16 games.
2b Hartman, lf Hubrich and 3b Prestianni
ss Keagbine has started 45 games and cf Baxter 43
--Velaski has been the starting pitcher in 26 games and Harvey has started 17 games. Velaski started all four regional games, allowing no runs (0) in 21 innings pitched. In the first two she allowed one hit (a bunt single) in 11 innings.
Linfield has won 34 consecutive games and has a 45-2 record. The last game Linfield lost was on March 18, 8-7 in eight innings to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in a multi-team event at Chapman in Orange, Calif.
--The Wildcats’ 47 victories ties the school record set in 2007, the year Linfield won the NCAA Division III championship. They have broken the record of fewest losses with 2; the record is 6 and the most Linfield can lose in the double-elimination nationals would be 2 more for a total of 4.
Catcher Emilee Lepp has handled 262 straight chances without making an error. Her only error of the season came in the second inning of the second game, against Whitworth. Her fielding percentage is .996.
1b Doucette also has 1 error in 47 games and 3b Prestianni has 2 errors in 47 games.
Linfield’s team fielding percentage is .966 with a total of 42 errors in 47 games.
The school records for highest percentage (.981) and fewest errors (22) were both set in 2008.
--More than half of Linfield’s victories (23 of 44) have been “mercy” victories: The games have been terminated after 5 or 6 innings because Linfield was ahead by at least 8 runs
The Wildcats have already broken several major team offensive records: = 95 home runs (obliterating the mark of 78 set last year);
= 434 runs scored, surpassing 409 by 2007’s national championship team;
= 413 RBIs, beating 2007’s total of 357 set in five more games.
= 917 total bases, far beyond the 852 by the 2007 national champions.
...and are on track to break some others:
= .400 batting average; the record is .388 set by that great 2007 team;
= .699 slugging average, more than 100 points above last year’s .592
= 9.23 runs per game; the 2007 champions averaged 7.87
= .474 on-base average; the record is .433 set in 2007
Linfield pitchers’ aggregate (team) earned run average is 1.74 earned runs per game; opponents’ team earned run average is 9.37 earned runs per game
Holding all four opponents scoreless in the regional, the Wildcats broke the school record for shutouts with 18; it was 16 in 2004
Linfield made no errors in its first three NCAA regional games; the Wildcats have played 21 errorless games this season, in spite of often playing on infields that were not in top condition because of the wet Northwest spring.
Lepp has gotten multiple hits (two or more) in 26 games, including 19 two-hit games. Keagbine and Doucette each have had 23 multiple-hit games and Hubrich has had 22.
Lepp has had 25 multiple-RBI games; Doucette has had 20.
Lepp and Doucette will take nine-game hitting streaks into the nationals. Longest this season was Doucette’s 16 games.
