DePolito earns second straight weekly honors from ECAC and NEWMAC

April 9, 2007

NORTON, MA- Wheaton College softball standout Jessica DePolito (Taunton, MA/Coyle and Cassidy) was named co-player of the week by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) for the week ending on Sunday, April 8. DePolito, who shared both honors with Clark University junior Heather Warren, was named the outright recipient of each organization's award last week.

During Wheaton's 4-2 showing against NEWMAC competition, the senior first baseman batted .529 by going 9-for-17 while adding 11 RBI and seven runs. DePolito also socked two home runs and two doubles while walking twice and striking out only twice in 19 plate appearances, recording a 1.000 slugging percentage and .579 on-base percentage.

In a Saturday split with first-place Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), DePolito went 1-for-2 in a game-one loss with a run, walk and steal before going 2-for-4 with five RBI, a run and a homer in the nightcap. During a Friday split with two-time defending league champ Babson College, DePolito scored twice and walked during a win in the opener before going 1-for-3 in game two. On Tuesday against Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she was 5-for-6 during a sweep with six RBI, three runs, two doubles, a homer and a stolen base.

DePolito leads the Lyons with a .423 batting average, 33 hits, 25 RBI, seven home runs, a .782 slugging percentage and .458 on-base percentage. Her 20 runs are second. Among NEWMAC players, DePolito is second in home runs, tied for second in RBI, tied for fourth in runs, fifth in batting and tied for 10th in triples (1).

Since a 6-8 start, the Lyons have gone 9-3, during which DePolito has batted .553 and slugged 1.132 with 21 hits, 21 RBI, 16 runs, six homers, four doubles, and only three strikeouts in 40 plate appearances. DePolito is now fifth in program history in career home runs (17), eighth in RBI (93), ninth in total bases (237) and tied for ninth in doubles (28).

Wheaton is 15-11 overall and 7-3 in league play, sitting in a tie for second in the NEWMAC standings. The Lyons step out of conference when they face Eastern Connecticut State University in a doubleheader on Tuesday beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Clark Field.

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