Posted: May 16, 2016

Four Cobbers Earn MIAC Recognition

MOORHEAD, Minn. (5/16/16)—Concordia had four players earn MIAC postseason honors.

Abigail Haraldson was the team's lone representative on the MIAC All-Conference Team while Madison Little and Mackenzie McCloud earned MIAC All-Conference Honorable Mention honors and Devonie Smith was the team's selection for the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team.

Little is the only one of the four to repeat as an all-conference honoree. She was placed on the MIAC All-Conference Team last season.

The four players led Concordia to an 11^th-place finish in the league standings with a 5-17 conference record. The five wins in MIAC play are the most by the Cobbers since 2012. Concordia came away with 18 overall wins which is the most since the 2002 season.

Haraldson had a breakout season in her junior year. She led the MIAC in strikeouts in conference games. Haraldson pitched in 20 of the team's 22 MIAC games and came away with 107 K's. She finished second in the MIAC in strikeouts in overall games. Haraldson had fanned 200 batters during the year. Both her conference and overall strikeout totals are new school records.

Haraldson, who went 4-14 in the conference, had at least five strikeouts in 12 of her 20 conference appearances. Her season high in K's came on May 2 when she fanned 11 Augsburg batters in the first game of the doubleheader.

Haraldson was also second in the MIAC in innings pitched in league games. She was in the circle for 114.2 innings. Haraldson finished her league season with a 3.48 ERA and held batters to a .249 average.

Almost all of Haroldson's overall statistics were career-best numbers. She finished with a 3.41 ERA in her 37 games. She pitched 188.2 innings and won 12 games. Her 188.2 innings pitched is also a new single-season school record. She now has a lifetime ERA of 3.85 and her 304 career K's are 67 shy of the school's all-time strikeout mark of 371 set by Erin Gunderson in 1999-02.

Little was second on the team in batting average in league games. She appeared in 21 MIAC ggames and had a .273 average. She had at least one hit 12 conference games and had a season-high three hits against Bethel and Carleton when she went 3-for-4 in both games.

Little surpassed the 100-hit mark during the season. She earned her milestone bas knock on Apr. 14 against Bethel when she had three hits in the second game. She is only the 15th player in program history to reach the 100-hit mark.

Little hit over .300 for the second straight season in all games. She finished with a .328 average in 2016 and now has 112 career hits and a .319 average in her three years at Concordia.

Like Haroldson, McCloud had a breakout season in 2016. As a freshman in 2015, McCloud hit .175 against league opponents, had a .214 on-base percentage and a .275 slugging percentage. As a sophomore in 2016, McCloud led the team in average with a .350 mark. She also led the team with her .394 on-base percentage and was second on the team with a .467 slugging percentage. McCloud also had a team-high 21 hits in the MIAC with four doubles and five RBI.

McCloud played in 21 conference games and had at least one hit in all but five of those contests. She had five multiple-hit games and ended the year with three straight games where she put up two base knocks.

McCloud led the team with a .364 average in all games and finished with a .533 slugging percentage and a .407 on-base percentage.

2016 MIAC SOFTBALL AWARDS
Player-of-the-Year - Robyn Rohr, St. Catherine (Sr., IF, Lakeville, Minn. / North)
Pitcher-of-the-Year - Kierstin Anderson-Glass, St. Thomas (Fy., P/1B, Inver Grove Heights,
Minn. / Visitation)
Rookie-of-the-Year - Kierstin Anderson-Glass, St. Thomas (Fy., P/1B, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.
/ Visitation)
Coach-of-the-Year - Colleen Powers, St. Catherine (3rd season)

2016 MIAC SOFTBALL ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM

Name	School	Year	Position	Hometown / High School
Samantha Anderson	Augsburg	Fy.	P/INF	Coon Rapids, Minn.
Kierstin Anderson-Glass	St. Thomas	Fy.	P/1B	Inver Grove Heights, Minn. / Visitation
Melissa Barry	St. Thomas	Fy.	UTIL	Apple Valley, Minn. / Eastview
Morghan Bean	Macalester	So.	P/UTIL	Muscatine, Iowa
Jessica Bentley	St. Olaf	So.	P/OF	Minneapolis, Minn. / Edina
Ashley Betzold	Saint Mary's	Jr.	P/INF	Farmington, Minn.
Abbie Bircher	Bethel	Sr.	OF	Vadnais Heights, Minn. / White Bear Lake
Nathalee Boissiere	Gustavus	Sr.	C	Plymouth, Minn. / Robbinsdale Cooper
Brianna Cline	Augsburg	So.	OF/INF	St. Clair, Minn.
Mary-Clare Couillard	Hamline	Jr.	IF	Fridley, Minn. / St. Anthony Village
Dana Connelly	St. Thomas	Fy.	OF	Mendota Heights, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall
Abby Cox	Macalester	Sr.	OF	Fort Worth, Texas / Country Day
Katie Jo Delisle	St. Thomas	Sr.	P/OF	Waterville, Minn. / Mound-Westonka
Sarah DeMars	Hamline	Jr.	P/INF	St. Anthony, Minn. / St. Anthony Village
Kate Deming	Saint Benedict	Fy.	OF	Bloomington, Minn. / Jefferson
Aubree Douglas	Hamline	Fy.	C	San Jacinto, Calif.
Megan DuPuis	St. Thomas	Sr.	INF	Plymouth, Minn. / Wayzata
Krista Flugstad	St. Catherine	So.	P/INF	Bloomington, Minn. / Jefferson
Abigail Haraldson	Concordia	Jr.	P	Sidney, Mont.
Mariah Harper	Saint Mary's	Sr.	INF/OF	Schaumburg, Ill. / Lake Park
Hannah Heacox	Gustavus	Jr.	P	Stillwater, Minn.
Caroline Kivisto	Bethel	Sr.	C	Dassel, Minn. / Dassel-Cokato
Anna Lauko	Carleton	Fy.	OF	Whitefish Bay, Wis.
Megan Lindenfelser	St. Catherine	So.	P/UTIL	Nowthen, Minn. / Anoka
Kylie Macziewski	St. Catherine	So.	INF	Bloomington, Minn. / Jefferson
Amanda Orrell	Hamline	Sr.	OF	Santa Maria, Calif. / Pioneer Valley
Wendy Roberts	Bethel	So.	INF	Grantsburg, Wis.
Robyn Rohr	St. Catherine	Sr.	INF/C	Lakeville, Minn. / North
Jamie Rubbelke	Hamline	Sr.	INF	North St. Paul, Minn.
Ashley Sis	St. Catherine	So.	C/INF	Brooklyn Park, Minn. / Osseo
Stanzy Snyder	Saint Mary's	So.	OF	Johnston, Iowa
Molly Steinberg	Carleton	So.	C/INF	Santa Monica, Calif. / Harvard Westlake
Megan Toninato	Saint Benedict	So.	OF	Woodbury, Minn. / Hill-Murray
Micaela Trainor	St. Thomas	Sr.	C/OF	Winona, Minn. / Cotter
Brenna Walek	St. Thomas	Jr.	DH/1B	Maple Grove, Minn. / Robbinsdale Cooper
Sara Wennerstrand	Saint Benedict	So.	C	Baxter, Minn. / Brainerd
Jena Willis	Gustavus	Jr.	UTIL	Kalispell, Mont. / Glacier

2016 MIAC SOFTBALL ALL-CONFERENCE HONORABLE MENTION

Name	Schools	Year	Position	Hometown / High School
Emilie Antony	Saint Benedict	Fy.	OF	Forest Lake, Minn.
Woo Bandel	St. Olaf	Sr.	INF	Westminster, Colo. / Standley Lake
Emily Carr	St. Olaf	Fy.	OF	Bloomington, Minn. / Jefferson
Lindsay Edeen	Bethel	Sr.	P	St. Michael, Minn. / Heritage Christian Academy
Madison Little	Concordia	Jr.	OF	Fargo, N.D. / Shanley
Corrie Lucchesi	Carleton	So.	INF	Chicago, Ill. / Lane Tech
Mackenzie McCloud	Concordia	So.	INF	Sharpsburg, Ga. / Northgate
Madison Mikolich	Saint Benedict	Fy.	C/INF	Elk River, Minn. / Rogers
Nicole Nelson	Saint Benedict	Sr.	INF	Rochester, Minn. / Lourdes
Rachel Standmark	Gustavus	So.	OF	New Ulm, Minn.
Becca Walz	St. Olaf	Sr.	INF	Elk Grove Village, Ill. / Elk Grove
Emily Webb	Gustavus	Fy.	INF	Maple Lake, Minn.
Jessica Williams	Gustavus	Sr.	UTIL	Plymouth, Minn. / Wayzata

2016 SOFTBALL ALL-MIAC SPORTSMANSHIP TEAM
Augsburg - Jenna Orth (Sr., Melrose, Minn.)
Bethel - Jessica Davis (Sr., Grayslake, Ill. / North)
Carleton - Sarah Ogle (Fy., San Diego, Calif. / Francis Parker School)
Concordia - Devonie Smith (So., Fergus Falls, Minn. / Kennedy)
Gustavus - Amber Hoffman (Sr., New Prague, Minn.)
Hamline - Chelsea Koehn (Sr., Clyde, Mich. / Port Huron North)
Macalester - Katja McKiernan (So., Los Angeles, Calif. / Marymount)
Saint Benedict - Nicole Nelson (Sr., Rochester, Minn. / Lourdes)
St. Catherine - Donielle Kurvers (Sr., Monticello, Minn.)
Saint Mary's - Gabby Geissler (Jr., St. Louis, Mo. / McDonnell Central Catholic)
St. Olaf - Woo Bandel (Sr., Westminster, Colo. / Standley Lake)
St. Thomas - Heather Kascht (Sr., Waukesha, Wis. / West)