Emily Dye

  • Award
    Softball Pitcher of the Week
  • Week Of
    4/14/2008
  • Sport
    Softball
  • School
    Rockhurst
  • Year
  • Position
  • Hometown
  • High School

Rockhurst University’s Emily Dye (Raymore, Mo.) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week.

 

Dye, a junior pitcher for the Hawks, collected three wins last week, including a pair of shutouts.

 

She topped Lincoln 6-0 on Tuesday and allowed just three hits while striking out five in the victory.

 

Dye returned on Saturday to shutdown visiting Bellarmine, 3-0. Against the Knights, Dye allowed just two hits and struck out four.

 

She capped the weekend with a 3-2 win over Northern Kentucky on Sunday. Dye surrendered four hits and struck out two in the win.

 

For the week, she posted a 0.67 earned run average and allowed just nine hits in 21 innings of work while collecting 11 strikeouts.

 

Dye is now 10-5 on the year with a 1.28 earned run average. She has recorded 72 strikeouts in 87.1 innings of work and has six shutouts.

 

Rockhurst (23-14, 8-8) has reeled off six straight wins and will next host Missouri S&T on Tuesday.

  

Other top performers in the GLVC last week included Lewis’ Courtney Lyons, Missouri-St. Louis’  Allyson DeFosset and SIU Edwardsville’s  Erika Taylor.