Korak, Gabriel, and Castro Announced as Softball Weekly Award Winners
MAAC Sports
Player of the Week
Janna Korak, Marist
Jr., OF, 5-9, Huntsville, AL/Sparkman
Korak led the Red Foxes with a .462 batting average (6-for-13), two home runs, six RBIs, four runs scored, a stolen base and a walk as Marist went 4-0 this past week. She registered a .500 on-base percentage and a 1.077 slugging percentage, as four of her six hits went for extra bases. Korak hit safely in all four games, and had two multi-hit contests. In the first game of a doubleheader at Bethune Cookman on March 22, she doubled and scored in the sixth inning of Marist’s 3-2 win. In the second game, she doubled and homered in her first two at-bats of Marist’s 5-2 triumph, finishing the game by going 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored. In the first game of a doubleheader at Stetson the following day, Korak had an RBI single and a stolen base in the first inning of Marist’s 3-1 victory. In the second game, she belted a three-run homer in Marist’s five-run sixth inning in a 7-4 win. She finished the game 2-for-3 with three RBIs, a run scored and a walk. She also had four putouts in right field without committing an error on the week. Korak did not strike out all week.
Pitcher of the Week
Danielle Gabriel, Manhattan
Jr., P, 5-8, Island Heights, NJ/Toms River South
Gabriel tossed six innings of scoreless relief in the Jaspers’ 3-2 win over Sacred Heart on Saturday. She entered in the second inning and allowed just three hits, not allowing a Pioneers base runner past second, while striking out six and walking one to earn the victory.
Rookie of the Week
Lauren Castro, Canisius
Fr., P/2B, 5-5, Gilroy, CA/Gilroy
Canisius freshman Lauren Castro
picked up her first career shutout win in the circle March 25 against Fairleigh Dickinson while hitting .333 (4-for-12) with a double, two runs scored and an RBI last week in four games at the inaugural Columbia Classic in New York, N.Y. In the team’s 6-0 win over FDU March 25, the Gilroy, Calif., native went five scoreless innings and allowed two hits en route to her second career victory in the circle. In that game, she helped her own cause by going 1-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI. She went 1-for-3 with a double and a run scored in the Griffs’ 4-3 loss to FDU March 26.