Owls Softball Puts Quartet on All-Conference Team
Owls OF Jordyn Lummus (Pittsfield, Mass.) and UT Mia Alfonso (Dalton, Mass./Pittsfield HS) were both named to the first team, with P Stephanie Scoville (Northfield, Mass./Pioneer Valley) and C Christina Ciampa (Rockville, Conn./Vernon-Rockville) named to the second team.
WESTFIELD, Mass. – Westfield State softball put four players on the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference's All-Conference team, as voted on by the leagues coaches, the circuit announced on Wednesday.
Owls OF Jordyn Lummus (Pittsfield, Mass.) and UT Mia Alfonso (Dalton, Mass./Pittsfield HS) were both named to the first team, with P Stephanie Scoville (Northfield, Mass./Pioneer Valley) and C Christina Ciampa (Rockville, Conn./Vernon-Rockville) named to the second team.
Lummus, a junior who played both left field and center field for the Owls, led the team with a .387 batting average, 48 hits, and 30 runs scored. She hit four doubles, a triple and a two home runs while driving in 14 runs. She ranked eighth in the conference in batting average. She tied the school's single season record for games played by playing in all 41 of the Owls' contests this season.
Alfonso, a first-year student split time between the outfield, catching and the designated player role in being selected as the utility player on the first team. Alfonso slugged a team high 10 doubles while batting .370 with a .550 slugging percentage. Alfonso came up big in the clutch, providing three walk-off hits in Owls wins, including a dramatic pinch-hit home run in a win over Smith early in the year, and a base-hit in the bottom of the seventh to give the Owls a MASCAC first-round playoff win over Fitchburg State.
Scoville, a junior, was the top starter for the Owls all season, finishing with 13 wins, six losses and two saves and a 3.04 earned run average. In 131 innings, she struck out 92 hitters while walking just 24. She did some of her best work in the MASCAC tournament, pitching in all four Owls games and tossing 20 innings while allowing just four earned runs to help the Owls into the semifinal round. She finished second in the league in wins, fourth in strikeouts and fifth in ERA.
Ciampa, a senior, was the Owls primary backstop during the season, and hit .311 with three home runs, four doubles, 20 rbi and 22 runs scored. Behind the plate she had a .985 fielding percentage and threw out 5 of 32 would-be base stealers.
Westfield finished the year with a 24-17 overall record and a 9-5 mark in the MASCAC and tied for second-place in the regular season standings under first-year head coach Joe Hough. The Owls 24 wins represent the second-best single season win total in program history, behind only a 26-win season in 2010.