Nine WAC softball players were named to the NFCA (National Fastpitch Coaches Association) West Region Teams. The WAC had six named to the first team and three named to the second team. Hawai`i led the way with four on the two teams.
2007 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I All-Region Teams
Junior catcher Ashley Roszkos was selected to the NFCA (National Fastpitch Coaches Association) West Region Second Team on Wednesday, May 16. Roszkos becomes just the third player in Aggie softball history to be named to the all-region team.
The honor comes for Roszkos after she had a record setting year for NMSU, as she broke three major offensive records and tied another. The 43 runs she drove in this season set a new single-season record and it gave her 109 for her career, which broke the all-time career mark.
The Benicia, Calif. native also set the single-season total base record with the 110 she had this spring and her 17 doubles tied the most by an Aggie in a sole season. She now has 39 career doubles, one behind Christine Stephens’s record of 40. The other two Aggies to receive the all-region honors were Stephanie Bonillas and Danny Dunn, both in 1997.
Roszkos batted .351 on the year with 61 hits and scored 33 runs while earning second-team all-WAC honors. She ranked second in the conference for doubles, fourth in slugging percentage and total bases, fifth in RBI and struck out only 14 times in 174 at-bats (just eight percent of the time). NMSU’s talented catcher gets in done defensively as well. Her .986 career fielding percentage is the fifth best in Aggie softball history.
Fresno State had four players earn all-West Region honors. The Bulldogs had three players earn first team honors and one player on the second team.
Senior Nichole Willis was named the first team catcher, junior Jenna Cervantez was named as the first team second baseman and sophomore Robin Mackin was named to the first team as a pitcher.
Junior Kristin Sylvester was honored on the second team, being named the first baseman. With four players honored, the Bulldogs landed the most on the West Region since the 1999 season, when Fresno State had six players honored.
For Willis, this marks her first first team honor. In 2005, Willis was named to the Second Team all-West Region. Cervantez made her first appearance on the all-West Region team, along with Sylvester. Mackin, in her sophomore season, is making her second-straight first team all-West Region selection.
Hawai`i junior Kate Robinson, sophomore Justine Smethurst, senior Tyleen Tausaga, and sophomore Clare Warwick were all named to the all-West Region first team. It is the most first team players Hawai`i has ever had in a single season.
Robinson earned a spot on the first team as a pitcher/utility player. On the mound, during the regular season, she went undefeated at 15-0 overall and 8-0 in conference play. She had a 1.56 ERA with 15 complete games and eight shut-outs. Robinson, a junior from Honolulu, O`ahu and Kamehameha Schools, walked 16 and struck out 91 batters in 116.1 innings pitched while holding opponents to a .213 batting average.
At the plate, Robinson had career highs in every offensive category. She broke UH's single-season home run record of 17 previously held by former UH stand out Stacey Porter. In her last at bat of the regular season at Utah State, she cranked her second homer of the day and 18th of the season to set the new record.
Smethurst, a pitcher from Victoria, Australia, fired a no-hitter at Utah State in a 11-0 win in six innings which highlighted her sophomore campaign. In the game she struck out 10 Aggies. She also set a new game-high of 13 strike outs against Santa Clara on the team's second road trip on Apr. 3. Smethurst saw the bulk of the workload again this season, throwing a team-high 153.0 innings. She went 16-7 and had a 1.69 ERA overall with 17 complete games and eight shut outs.
Tausaga, one of the senior leaders on the record setting team, finished the regular season with a team-high .408 average (64-for-157) with career highs in runs scored (33), hits (64), 15 home runs, 50 RBI, and 25 walks (including six intentional). She was named as a utility/non-pitcher to the first team.
Warwick, along with Robinson and Tausaga, started all 54 games during the regular season. She patrolled the hot corner solidly and at the plate, led the team with 72 hits and 50 runs scored, both are career highs.
Nevada’s Bri her ttany Puzey was named to the all-West Region second team. The sophomore was named to the all-WAC first team as an outfielder. This isfirst appearance on the all-region team. Puzey ended the season hitting .404 in conference games. The Minden, Nev., native ended her sophomore season first on the team in several categories including, slugging percentage (.665), total bases (113), RBI (52), runs scored (33), doubles (18) and homeruns (13).
West Region First Team
P Robin Mackin Fresno State
P Justine Smethurst University of Hawaii
C Nichole Willis Fresno State
1B Jennifer Curtier University of the Pacific
2B Jenna Cervantez Fresno State
3B Clare Warwick University of Hawaii
SS Jodi Norton Brigham Young University
OF Lisa Modglin California Polytechnic State University, SLO
OF Gina Carbonatto University of the Pacific
OF Jennifer Whiteley Brigham Young University
UT/P Kate Robinson University of Hawaii
UT/Non-P Tyleen Tausaga University of Hawaii
Second Team
P Jennifer Davis University of California, Santa Barbara
P Christie Robinson University of Nevada, Las Vegas
C Ashley Roszkos New Mexico State University
1B Kristin Sylvester Fresno State
2B Casey Goldsand University of the Pacific
3B Lindi Kennedy Southern Utah University
SS Jessica Beaver Long Beach State University
OF Diana Phillips University of Utah
OF Brittany Knudsen San Diego State University
OF Brittany Puzey University of Nevada, Reno
OF Emi Snow Brigham Young University
UT/P Candice Baker California State University, Fullerton
UT/Non-P Christina Saenz California State University, Northridge