SARAH PRATT NAMED GSC'S WEST DIVISION SOFTBALL
PLAYER OF THE WEEK

        BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Arkansas Tech’s Sarah Pratt has been named the final Gulf South Conference’s West Division Softball Player of the Week this season on Tuesday by the league office.

Pratt, a junior rightfielder from Garland, Texas, earns her second Player of the Week honor this season as she honored by the league on March 18. Pratt earns this week’s honor after hitting .385 with five hits in 13 at-bats in four games that helped the Golden Suns claim its first-ever GSC West Division championship and earn the No. 1 seed in this coming weekend’s GSC Tournament in Southaven, Miss. It is the eighth time this season that the GSC as honored a Golden Suns as either the Player or Pitcher of the Week. Sophomore Casey Hammons (Carthage, Texas) has been named the GSC Pitcher of the Week three times (Feb. 26, March 17, March 25), while senior Dana Aldrich (Palm Harbor, Fla.) has been named the Pitcher of the Week two times (Feb. 12 and April 15), sophomore catcher Roxanna Palacios (Crosby, Texas) was named the West Division Player of the Week last week and Pratt was named the West Division Player of the Week previously on March 18.

For the week, Pratt led Tech’s offense with five hits in 13 at-bats for a .385 batting average in Tech’s four games against Henderson State. In the four games, she had multiple hits in two of the four contests and hit her team-leading fourth triple of the season during that stretch. In Tech’s two wins last week over HSU to clinch the West Division title, Pratt went a combined 4-for-7 with a triple and an RBI.

On the season, Pratt is hitting a team-best .368 with 68 hits in 185 at-bats. She has played in and started all 53 games and has scored a team-best 39 runs and is 16-for-20 in stolen bases. In addition, she had a slugging percentage of .438 and an on-base percentage of .406 this season and holds Tech’s single-season records in at-bats (185), runs scored (39), hits (68) and is tied for first single-season games played with 53.

In addition to Palacios, Arkansas-Monticello senior Kate Brady was named the West Division Pitcher of the Week, while Valdosta State senior outfielder Shannon Cleland and West Alabama junior pitcher Emily White were named the GSC East Division Player and Pitcher of the Week respectively.

Pratt and her Golden Sun teammates will return to action on Friday, May 2 when Tech faces North Alabama at 9:30 a.m. in the first round of the 2008 GSC Softball Tournament at the Greenbrook Softball Complex in Southaven, Miss.

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