Four Jackets Ranked In NCAA Softball Stats (Apr. 27, 2005)

BILLINGS, MT – For the second week in a row, four Montana State-Billings softball players are ranked in the top 50 in a total of seven different statistical categories by the NCAA.  As a team the Yellowjackets are eighteenth nationally for batting average at .324.  The NCAA has not yet started ranking teams for home runs, which the Jackets have hit 41 of this season.

Joey Ehnes (Sr., Great Falls, MT) is the highest ranked individual, sitting in the top 15 in two categories.  She is eleventh with 22 victories and fifteenth with an average of 8.8 strikeouts per game.  The rankings include games through April 24.  Ehnes won her 23^rd game on Monday, striking out 14 against Minot State.

Cami Rainey (Sr., Terreton, ID) is ranked in the most individual categories of any Yellowjacket.  She is eighteenth for doubles per game (0.41), 32^nd for batting average (.432) and 39^th for runs per game (1.0).

Theresa Campbell (Sr., Great Falls, MT) is nineteenth for home runs per game at 0.26.  She blasted two more homers in Monday’s doubleheader, giving her 12 for the season and a school record 20 for her career.  Campbell is also 47^th for slugging percentage at .698.

Rachel Quarnburg (So., Billings, MT) is seventeenth nationally for batting average.  She is hitting a team-best .463 and is on pace to set a new school record.

The Yellowjackets close out the regular season on Saturday and Sunday with doubleheaders against Western New Mexico at Cenex Stadium.