Softball Release (03-04) - All-Region - Guilford College
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TWO QUAKERS EARN ALL-REGION RECOGNITION
Greensboro, NC (05/06/04) -- Juniors Ashley Cooke (Gibsonville, NC/Eastern Guilford) and Jennifer Franklin (Greensboro, NC/Southern Guilford) were named to the 2004 National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Atlantic Region Third Team Friday. Both players also earned Second Team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) honors this spring and in 2003. They are Guilford's first all-region fastpitch softball selections in school history.
Cooke,
a 5-7 catcher, led the Quakers in batting average (.345), doubles (9), home runs
(5), runs batted in (RBI) (26), slugging percentage (.564), and total bases
(62). She placed second among the league's home run leaders, seventh in slugging
percentage and ninth in RBI. Cooke had 10 multi-hit games, including a
performance in the nightcap of a doubleheader against Peace in which she batted
four-for-four with a double and a homer. She collected four RBI and scored a run
in the 8-5 Guilford victory.
Franklin,
a 5-4 center fielder, served as the Quakers' leadoff hitter for much of the
season. She tied with Cooke for the team lead in hits (38) and owned the
outright lead in runs (19) and triples (3). Franklin ranked second on the
club in doubles (6), RBI (14), total bases (53) and slugging percentage (.449).
She was third on the team in batting average (.322) and on-base percentage
(.350). Franklin ranked fourth in the ODAC in triples. She had several
outstanding performances, one of which came against ODAC-rival Randolph-Macon
Woman's College in the second game of a doubleheader in which she went
two-for-four with a triple and a home run. Franklin added three RBI and
three runs in the Quakers' victory.
Coach Ty Cook's Quakers finished with a 9-27 record, 4-12 in the ODAC, in the team's second year since returning as a varsity sport. Fourteen letter winners from this year's squad, including Cooke and Franklin are expected to return in 2005.