Quincy junior Torie Bunzell (Utica, Ill./Lima-Peru) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Softball Pitcher of the Week, respectively.

 

Bunzell went 5-0 in the circle last week, recorded her first perfect game in a win over Saint Joseph’s and notched her sixth career no-hitter in a victory over Drury. She finished the week with a 0.25 earned run average, 52 strikeouts and allowed just 10 hits in 28 innings of work.

 

She opened the week with the perfect game against the Pumas on Monday in a 9-0 win. Bunzell struck out 11 in five innings of work. She then recorded a win in the Lady Hawks’ 3-1 decision in the night cap, striking out 10 and allowing just three hits in four innings of relief work. 

 

On Saturday, Bunzell posted tossed a no-hitter in the Lady Hawks’ 3-0 win against Drury. In the win, she recorded 13 strikeouts and gave up three walks in the seven-inning shutout.

 

Bunzell capped the week by pitching two complete-game victories over Missouri S&T on Sunday. She allowed three hits and one earned run, while striking out eight in the opener, a 9-1 Quincy win, and surrendered four hits and struck out 10 in the Lady Hawks’ 2-0 win in the day’s second game.

 

On the year, Bunzell is 15-4 with a 0.47 ERA. She has recorded 17 complete games, seven shutouts and has 195 strikeouts in 118 and one-third innings of work.

 

Quincy (23-8) has won 15 of its last 16 games and is in first place in the GLVC standings with a 13-3 record. The Lady Hawks will face Missouri Western, Maryville and Missouri-St. Louis this week.

 

Other top performers in GLVC last week included Indianapolis’ Megan Russell, Kentucky Wesleyan’s Suzy Gentili, Lewis’ Karissa Habel, Northern Kentucky’s Chelsie Roy,  Southern Indiana’s Stephanie Bittner and UW-Parkside’s Kallie Walczak.