Three Softball Student-Athletes Earn CSC Academic All-District Honors

HANOVER, N.H. – Three Dartmouth softball student-athletes have earned CSC Academic All-District honors, as announced by College Sports Communicators on Tuesday afternoon.

Nominees must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games played or must start in at least 66 percent of the institution's games. For pitchers, a student-athlete must have made at least 17 appearances or pitched 35 innings.

Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically. An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). Lauren Ben-Ezra, Ashley Frantz and Anna Marie Fagan are this year's honorees, with all earning Academic All-District honors for the first time in their careers.

Ben-Ezra started in 30 games for the Big Green for her senior season, recording a career high .323 batting average. This season marks the best of her career, recording 20 runs, four doubles and triples, her first career home run, and 12 RBIs. Ben-Ezra worked nine walks and recorded 50 putouts and 20 assists in left field.

Frantz, a senior middle infielder, started 30 games and recorded 13 runs, 18 hits and four RBIs in her final season. On the defensive side, she recorded 27 putouts and 50 assists.

Fagan, a junior pitcher, pitched 69.1 innings on the season, recording 25 strikeouts. Fagan stepped up for the Big Green in multiple situations, notably pitching 16 consecutive innings and earning two wins against Princeton, which no other Ivy pitcher has done this year. Against Princeton's top starting lineup, Fagan limited its offense to just three extra base hits in 14 innings of work. Fagan was able to work her way out of innings repeatedly, stranding 21 Princeton runners on base over the weekend and halting offensive momentum to help lead the Big Green to two wins.

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