Head Coach:
John Goddard, 2nd year
Phone: 309-457-2176
E-mail:
jgoddard@monm.edu
John Goddard
made an immediate impression on his fellow Midwest Conference
coaches in his inaugural season. The Scots won eight of their
last nine regular season games, including five straight league
contests to return to the MWC Tournament for the first time in
four years. The Scots' success resulted in Goddard being named
the MWC South Division Coach of the Year in a vote of the
league's coaches.
Assistant Coach:
Hank Shimmin, 5th year |
John Goddard
2008 MWC
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2008
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The Fighting Scots 2008
Softball Team
The 2008 Fighting Scots with U.S. Olympic
Coach Mike Candrea
The Fighting Scots
Softball Field
Field Dimensions
Down the lines: 210'
Center Field: 210'
Scots softball claim MWC Pitcher, Coach of the Year
Release Date: May 6, 2008
In a vote of the league’s coaches, Fighting Scots coach John Goddard
was named the South Division Coach of the Year in his first season.
Goddard, the first Scots’ coach to receive the Coach of the Year honor
since LeAnn Hagen in 2003, guided the Scots to their first MWC
Tournament appearance since 2004 and the team’s best win percentage in
five years. After beginning the season 2-9, the Scots posted an 11-6
record the rest of the way, dropping just one of their last 10 games of
the regular season and running off a seven-game win streak. Monmouth
rebounded from an 0-3 start in conference play to reel off five straight
wins and qualify for a conference tournament berth.
Scots softball claim MWC Pitcher, Coach of the Year
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Junior Sarah Christensen (Galesburg, Ill./Galesburg) was named
the South’s Pitcher of the Year, making her the first Scots’ pitcher
awarded the honor. The junior righty went 4-0 with one save as the
Scots posted a 9-1 record over their last 10 games. Christensen
allowed just four earned runs over that stretch and finished the
year 7-6 with a 3.62 ERA. Her 102 strikeouts this season ranks her
second on the Monmouth season strikeout list and her 175 career Ks
moves her to fourth all-time. The selection was Christensen’s second
all-conference honor.
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MC’s Willems named
Performer of the Week
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Monmouth College senior shortstop Emily Willems (Moline, Ill./Rockridge)
helped the Fighting Scots to their first Midwest Conference
tournament berth since 2004 and was named the MWC Performer of the
Week.
In a make or break game against the Grinnell Pioneers Sunday,
Willems delivered for the Senior Day crowd in a dramatic 5-4
come-from-behind victory that punched the Scots’ ticket to the
postseason. Her third hit of the day, a two out double drove in
Ashley Parer (Rock Island, Ill./Rock Island) with the tying run.
Willems scored from second one batter later when Anna Coutts’ (Ladd,
Ill./Hall) ground ball was mishandled. She picked up two more hits
in the nightcap, including her 34th career triple as the Scots
completed the sweep with a 6-2 win.
For the week, Willems hit .429 with a .571 slugging percentage
and six runs scored.
MC’s Christensen named
Performer of the Week
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Monmouth College junior pitcher Sarah Christensen (Galesburg,
Ill./Galesburg) was nearly perfect in the circle last week and picked up
her first Midwest Conference Pitcher of the Week honor in softball.
Christensen was 3-0 as a starter and came in from the bullpen to earn
a save last week as the Fighting Scots went 5-0 to run their win streak
to six games, the Scots’ longest streak since the 2001 season. At last
Monday’s abbreviated Midwest Conference Classic in Janesville, Wis., the
junior right-hander threw a complete game shutout in a 6-0 win over
Lawrence. Against defending league champion and north division favorite
St. Norbert, Christensen hurled five innings of two-hit ball in a 9-0
victory. Between the pair of shutouts, the junior came on in relief to
get the final out in the Scots’ 7-6 win over Ripon. She then allowed
just one run in Monmouth’s 3-1 divisional win over Illinois College.
For the week, Christensen posted an ERA of 0.38 with 16 strikeouts
and four walks.
MC’s Willems named
Performer of the Week
Release Date: March 31, 2008
A stellar week has led to Monmouth College senior shortstop Emily
Willems (Moline, Ill./Rockridge) picking up her first Midwest Conference
softball Performer of the Week honor.
Willems had the kind of week players dream of, hitting .583 with a
1.000 slugging percentage. In a 10-2, 3-2 sweep of MacMurray Wednesday,
the sweet-swinging Willems went 5-for-6 and scored two runs. She
continued her assault on opposing pitchers Friday as the Scots fell to
Illinois Wesleyan 9-1 and 4-2. Willems rapped out two more hits and
drove in all of Monmouth’s runs in the twinbill. Her two-run homer in
the third inning of Game 2 gave the Scots a 2-1 lead. She leads the
team’s starters with a .429 batting average and has not struck out in
her last 29 plate appearances.
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