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Release Date:  April 13, 2009

MONMOUTH, Ill. — The Monmouth College softball team’s sweep of Midwest Conference rival Knox College also resulted in the Fighting Scots sweeping this week’s MWC Pitcher and Position Player of the Week awards.

Pitcher Sarah Christensen (Galesburg, Ill./Galesburg) picked up her second conference award this season. The senior was nearly untouchable in a pair of wins last week while posting a 2-0 record with a pair of five inning victories – a 10-2 win over Robert Morris-Springfield and a 12-0 league win over Knox College. Christensen rebounded from a shaky first inning against Robert Morris, allowing three hits in the inning as RMS scored both their runs. The only runners to reach after the first inning were by errors as Christensen faced just two batters over the minimum over the last four innings. Against Knox, Christensen nearly earned her first career no-hitter in a shutout over Knox. A sun-field fly ball that dropped for a base hit in the first inning was the only hit the senior allowed in a one hit, one walk, 10 strikeout day. She faced just two batters over the minimum, allowing the hit and walk in the first inning. For the week, Christensen held opponents to a .111 batting average and had a 1.40 ERA with 16 Ks, one walk, four hits and two runs.

Freshman shortstop Morgan Seiler (Chillicothe, Ill./IVC) did her best to help the Fighting Scots to a 3-1 week, splitting a double-header with Robert Morris-Springfield, winning the opener 10-2 and dropping nightcap 5-2, then sweeping Knox 12-0 and 13-7. The freshman slugged a two-run homer in the second inning of Game 1 against Robert Morris to give the Scots a 5-2 lead. She then picked up a pair of singles in the nightcap to go 3-for-7 in the twinbill. Seiler owned the pitchers in the conference matchup against Knox as she went 4-for-6 with three doubles and four RBIs in the two games. Her first double in the opener scored the first run in the five-run first. She then hit back-to-back doubles in her first two at-bats in Game 2, driving in three runs. For the week, the slugging shortstop hit .538 with a 1.000 slugging percentage, driving in seven runs while going 7-for13 with five runs scored, no strikeouts and a .600 on-base percentage.