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Iowa and Purdue Garner Weekly Awards
May 11, 2009
Player of the Week Candace Curtis | Purdue Candace Curtis posted a .556 average with five hits, including three doubles, and had a hand in eight of Purdue's 10 runs in its sweep of Indiana on Saturday. Curtis posted six RBI and two runs, while boasting a .889 slugging percentage and a .556 on-base percentage. In Game 1 vs. the Hoosiers, Curtis went 2-for-4 and drove in both of the Boilermakers' runs. A sixth-inning double put Purdue on the board, and then an eighth-inning single plated the game winner. In the 8-7 Game 2 victory, the Danville, Calif., native went 3-for-5 with four RBI and the game-winning run. Curtis put two on the board with a first-inning double, and then tacked on two more RBI with a second-inning single. With the game on the line in the eighth, Curtis capped her final regular season game with a leadoff double before coming home to seal the victory. This is the first weekly laurel of her career. Last Purdue Player of the Week: Jenna Alexander (April 7, 2008)
Brittany Weil | Iowa Senior Brittany Weil spent the week tearing apart the Iowa record books. She tossed her fifth no-hitter of the season in Game 1 against Wisconsin, breaking Iowa's career record for most hitless games in a career. She took a perfect game into the fifth with the Hawkeyes leading 8-0, but committed a throwing error with one out in the inning. She managed to get the final two outs after a 45-minute rain delay to secure the no-hitter. On "Senior Day" at Pearl Field, Weil shattered Iowa's single-season strikeout record, along with tying the Iowa career record for wins (99), complete games (109) and games pitched (181). In the series versus Minnesota, Weil fanned 20 batters Saturday to set the new single-season mark at 328. The Garden Grove, Calif., native threw 14-straight innings of shutout ball against the Golden Gophers. In Game 1, Weil broke the single-season strikeout mark at Iowa, recording 11 K's and giving up only five hits. In Game 2, Weil had a no-hitter heading into the seventh, but Minnesota managed to break it up with a single. She tossed another complete game, allowing just two hits with only one walk and 11 strikeouts. For the week, Weil went 4-0 with complete game shutouts and a 0.30 ERA. She threw 23.2 innings and struck out 32 of the 51 batters she faced. This is the fourth honor of the season for Weil and ninth of her career.
Last Iowa Pitcher of the Week: Brittany Weil (April 27, 2009) |
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