Stellar Week Earns Softy ECC Player Of The Week Honors
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (April 12, 2010) – Senior shortstop Christie Softy (Floral Park, N.Y.) of the C.W. Post softball team nabbed her third East Coast Conference Player of the Week nod this season.
Softy erupted at the plate this week, batting .429 with 10 hits, including six homers, for 17 RBI, with a 1.381 slugging percentage. She started the week with a walk-off grand slam to give C.W. Post a 10-2 win over NYIT, totaling six RBI in the game. She also had the game-winning hit in the second game against St. Thomas Aquinas with a two-run homer and batted again in the same inning with an RBI single as part of a 14-run inning for the Pioneers.
Softy's heroics continued when she drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth with a solo shot to center field in a 3-2 win over Molloy. On the week, Softy drove in 17 runs and scored eight.
C.W. Post is back in action for its final regular season home contest against Mercy on Tuesday followed by a doubleheader at Caldwell on Wednesday. The Pioneers close out the regular season on the road on Saturday against Dowling.