Boysen and Haag earn all-CCAC First-Team honors; four Bees named to Second Team
St. Ambrose has six named to the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference all-conference teams. Ada Boysen and Becca Haag received first-team honors for pitcher and first base, respectively.
Boysen, a freshman pitcher from Wapello, Iowa, led the conference with a 1.87 earned run average in her first season with the Bees. She appeared in 17 games with 14 starts and seven complete games. In 82.1 innings pitched, Boysen sat down 81 batters and posted an opponent batting average of .207. She finished her freshman campaign with a 10-2 record.
Haag, a sophomore first baseman from Muscatine, Iowa, led the team with a batting average of .388 with 47 hits in 121 at-bats. She had 14 extra base hits, collecting nine doubles and a team-high five home runs. With those hits, Haag totaled 24 runs batted in for the season.
Kylee Claypool, Ellie Downing, Mady Reed, and Leah Maro were named to the second team.
Claypool, a sophomore from Morris, Ill., earned a spot on the conference team as a utility player. In 106 at-bats, she collected 39 hits, which led to a .368 batting average for the season. Claypool had 15 extra-base hits, including nine doubles, four triples, and two home runs. With all of those hits, she collected 24 runs batted in.
Downing, a junior shortstop from Canton, Ill., led the Bees in doubles with 14 of her 15 extra-base hits resulting in them. She finished the season with 18 runs batted in and a .365 batting average, driving 42 hits in 115 at-bats. Downing had a game high of four hits when the Bees traveled to Olivet Nazarene on April 24.
Reed, a senior outfielder from Stronghurst, Ill., placed first amongst her teammates in runs batted in with 28 during the season. She ended her senior campaign with a .347 batting average, collecting eight doubles, four triples, and three home runs. Her speed assisted in achieving five stolen bases in seven attempts.
Maro, a sophomore from Davenport, Iowa, threw a team-leading 111 innings pitched in 25 appearances and 21 starts, 10 of those being complete games. She tallied a record of 9-8, ending the season with a 3.66 earned run average. Maro struck out 72 batters and held opposing teams to a .297 batting average.
Additionally, the conference named Reagan Engberg as the second base Golden Glove recipient.
Engberg, a junior from Burlington, Iowa, locked down second base for nearly every game this season for the Bees. She recorded a .948 fielding percentage with 57 putouts, 53 assists, and 6 errors.