Jody Schaill Named MWC Player of the Week

Release Date: April 25, 2000

The Monmouth College softball team swept a pair of doubleheaders last week to move into first place in the Midwest Conference’s South Division, and one Fighting Scot was honored for her leadership role during the four victories.

Jody Schaill, a sophomore first baseman from Henry, proved to be the difference in 5-3 and 4-3 victories over Knox, and she also contributed in a pair of 6-5 wins against Lake Forest. For the week, Schaill was 6-for-12 at the plate, raising her team-leading average to .397. Three of her hits were doubles and she also drove in five runs.

Schaill knocked home the game-winning run in the opener against Knox with a two-run double and followed that up with a 3-for-3 performance in the nightcap, scoring the tie-breaking run in the bottom of the sixth and then throwing out the potential tying run at the plate in the top of the seventh to end the game.

Against the Foresters, Schaill delivered a key hit as the Scots rallied from a 5-0 deficit in the opener, and she also doubled and scored in the nightcap as Monmouth jumped out to an early lead.

Schaill, who is the daughter of Mike and Sharon Clift of Henry, also leads the team in runs, hits, triples, total bases, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and putouts.