From University of Rochester Athletics
The awards keep coming for the 2014 University of Rochester
softball squad.
On Thursday, the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC)
announced the 2014 Division III Upstate All-Stars with four members
from Rochester being honored, including UR taking two of the three
major awards.
Senior 1B Nina Korn took home Player of the Year honors while
freshman P/3B Eleni Wechsler was tabbed as Rookie of the
Year. Senior 2B Tayler Fravel was awarded 1st Team honors in
addition to junior P/IF Brittany Grage making the 2nd Team.
Korn was selected to the 1st team for her record setting 2014
campaign in which she batted .462 with 14 home runs, 58 RBI, 11
doubles and an .879 slugging percentage. Korn also registered a
.997 fielding percentage, making just one error in 376 total
attempts at first base. She set single season UR records for
average, slugging, on-base percentage, home runs, RBI, walks and
fielding percentage. Korn also is the Rochester program
leader in hits, RBI, home runs, walks, on-base percentage, slugging
and double plays. This season she was awarded 1st Team
All-American honors from the NFCA, was Liberty League Player of the
Year for the second straight season and 1st Team All-Region.
During the postseason, Korn was named Most Outstanding Player
during the Liberty League Tournament and during NCAA Super
Regionals in which she helped lift UR to its first ever appearance
in the NCAA Finals. The ECAC honor is Korn's 3rd of her
career after she was named 2nd Team in 2013 and was Rookie of the
Year in 2011.
Joining Korn on the 1st Team was Fravel who also enjoyed a stellar
year ending her collegiate softball career. Fravel was
selected as a 3rd Team All-American by the NFCA, 1st Team
All-Region and 1st Team All-Liberty League. Finished the year
hitting .453 (72-159) with 47 runs, 12 doubles, 5 triples, 1 home
run and 26 RBI and was 12-13 in stolen base attempts. This
year Fravel set new school records for hits and triples in a
season. She made it a clean sweep of awards during the NCAA
Tournament as she was named to the All-Regional, All-Super Regional
and All-NCAA Final teams, helping UR advance the furthest it has
ever gone in NCAA play.
Wechesler was selected to the 2nd Team by the ECAC and was named
Rookie of the Year following her season of impressive play both in
the pitchers circle and in the batters box. In 2014, she went
15-5 with 1.76 ERA in 131 innings on the rubber, while only
allowing 104 hits (.209 opponents average), 49 runs (33 earned) and
37 walks while striking out 104 batters. The freshman tossed
11 complete games and had seven shutouts while hitting .359
(47-131) at the plate with 18 runs, 6 doubles, 4 home runs and 32
RBI. She was on the mound in the clinching games of the
Liberty League Tournament, NCAA Regionals and NCAA Super Regionals,
helping the Yellowjackets advanced farther in NCAA Tournament play
than any other softball team in school history. She earned
2nd Team All-Region awards from the NFCA and was also selected as
Liberty League Rookie of the Year.
Grage was the final member of the Yellowjackets to earn ECAC
honors, being named to the 2nd Team following her junior
season. This year she compiled a 17-7 record and 1.53 ERA in
the pitchers circle. She made 34 appearances and 24 starts on
the rubber, totaling 160.1 innings, with 141 hits allowed, 56 runs
(35 earned) allowed, while striking out 123 to issuing just 36
walks. Grage threw 16 complete games and had nine shutouts
for a new single-season UR record. She was named 1st Team
All-Region, Liberty League Pitcher of the Year and was an
All-Conference 1st Team member.