Three players earn All-MIAA Softball honors

Three Olivet College student-athletes have earned 2004 All-Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) softball honors. Senior first baseman Kim Horanburg (Grand Ledge High School) and junior shortstop Beth Shunkwiler (Berrien Center/Berrien Springs High School)were selected first-team All-MIAA. Junior pitcher/outfielder Jenn Newland (Tekonsha High School) earned second-team honors.

Horanburg, a two-time first-team All-MIAA selection, had a .405 batting average in 12 MIAA games with five doubles and nine RBIs. She committed only one error in 97 chances for a .990 fielding percentage. Shunkwiler led the Comets and ranked among the MIAA leaders with a .419 batting average, 12 runs scored, 18 hits, six doubles, 24 total bases, .558 slugging percentage and .528 on-base percentage. She also walked nine times from the leadoff spot in the lineup.

At the plate, Newland hit .282 with nine runs scored, five RBIs and eight sacrifice hits. In the pitching circle, she had a 3-4 record with a 1.53 earned run average in 50 and one-third innings of work. Newland ranked second in the MIAA with 36 strikeouts and pithced a seven-inning no-hitter against MIAA foe Kalamazoo College on April 6.

Sophomore pitcher Erica Anderson (Casnovia/Kent City High School), senior catcher Theresa Flowers (Waterford/Kettering High School), senior third baseman Jenna Little (Ortonville Brandon High School) and senior second baseman Kari Munson (Lansing/Eastern High School) picked up coaches' honorable mention honors.