ECAC Honors Three Spring Athletes with Weekly Awards
Three Empire 8 Athletic Conference (E8) athletes were named this week's Corvias Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Athletes of the Week for the week of March 10-16, 2014.
Baseball Player - Upstate
Benjamin Hobaica – Utica College
Junior, Second Base, Clinton, NY
Hobaica led the way for the Pioneers in two early season victories. He went 5-for-5 at the plate, scored a team-best 10 runs, walked five times, registered four RBI's and also recorded six assists in the field. He was 1-for-1 on stolen base attempts and ripped two doubles.
Softball Player - Upstate
Sophia Rhoades – Nazareth College
Junior, Catcher, Highland, NY
Rhoades led the Golden Flyers with a .462 batting average over 10 non-conference games (3-7) in Florida. She went 12-for-26 with 12 RBIs, three doubles and a triple for a .654 slugging percentage.
Softball Pitcher - Upstate
Kayla Berardi – Stevens Institute of Technology
Senior, Brookfield, Conn.
Berardi struck-out 33 batters in 39 innings of work with a 1.08 ERA as Stevens posted a 6-4 record. Her best game was a 13 strike-out, 3-2 win against previously undefeated Olivet College where she did not give up an earned run and pitched all 12 innings. In the 39 innings pitched throughout the week Berardi gave up just three extra base hits.