Panthers take top honors on GSAC all-conference, all-freshman teams
April 21, 2007

MARYVILLE, Tenn. – LaGrange College placed five players on the the All-GSAC team announced Saturday afternoon at the conference tournament.  Senior shortstop Kim Woodard was named GSAC Player of the Year and Valeree Williams was named the GSAC Freshman of the Year. The Panthers also had four selections on the GSAC All-Freshman Team.

Woodard batted .388 while leading the team in games played (39), started (39), at bats (121), runs (40) and hits (47).  This is the fourth-straight year she has earned All-GSAC honors and is ranked among the top-five in almost every career offensive category.  She is second on the team in home runs (4) and stolen bases with 15.

Williams, a second baseman, leads the team in batting with a .422 average in 30 games played with 29 starts.  She is second on the team in runs scored (22), hits (38), while third in doubles (7) and has two home runs in her first season of collegiate softball.  Williams, a two-sport athlete, was named to the GSAC All-Freshman Team in basketball.

Amanda Daniel and Megan Henry were the pitchers named to the All-GSAC team.  Daniel, who was the GSAC Freshman of the Year last season, is 12-8 on the season with a 2.06 ERA including 12 complete games, three shutouts and a total of 110 strikeouts in 118-2/3 innings pitched.  The Yatesville, Ga. native got her 200th career strikeout vs. Wesleyan on March 29.  She needs 16 strikeouts to break the school's single-season record while owning the school's all-time career record in shutouts with eight.  This is the second straight year she has earned All-GSAC honors.

Henry, a junior, is 9-7 with a 2.10 ERA.  In 80 innings this season, she has thrown seven complete games with three shutouts.  Henry earned her 100th strikeout of her career against Piedmont on March 22.  She is second all-time for shutouts in a career with seven, one behind Daniel.  Henry got her 30th career win vs. Texas Lutheran on April 3.  This is also the second straight year she has garnered All-GSAC honors.

Dicie Holland, a senior catcher, earned All-GSAC honors for the second-straight season.  She batted .326 in 33 games played with 29 hits, 11 runs and 15 runs batted in.  Holland, a transfer from Chattahoochee Valley Community College, has committed only four errors in two seasons for the Panthers.

Named to the All-Freshman Team were Leah Flowers, Jennifer Knight, Kayla Yeargin and Williams.

Flowers, an outfielder, had 10 hits, 10 runs and three stolen bases in  27 games this season. She made 15 starts. 

Knight, a first baseman, came on strong in the last 11 games. She hit .417 during this span with 15 hits, including four doubles and four home runs. Knight also scored eight runs, had 17 RBIs and a slugging percentage of .861 since the Texas trip.  A LaGrange, Ga. native, she leads the team with five home runs and 26 RBIs. 

Kayla Yeargin, a catcher, batted .340 with 17 hits and eight runs. During the Texas Spring Break trip, she batted .571 with eight hits and two runs and RBIs each. 

Named to the GSAC All-Academic Team are Daniel, Henry, Holland, senior Hayley Hanson,  senior Dawn Smith and sophomore Chloe Turnipseed.  For Hanson and Smith, it was the second-straight year earning the honor.