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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Land Three On All-MAC Team
May 08, 2002 | Softball
May 8, 2002
AKRON, Ohio - Three Bowling Green State University softball players have been named to the 2002 All-Mid-American Conference Team. The team was announced on Wednesday (May 8) evening at the MAC Tournament banquet in Akron, Ohio.
Seniors Holly Frantz and Renee Rosemeier and redshirt freshman Marla Murphy all were named to the all-conference second team. Rosemeier, a rightfielder, earns All-MAC honors for the second time, having been named to the all-league first team in 2001. Frantz, a catcher, and Murphy, a second baseman, make the all-conference squad for the first time in their respective careers.
Frantz, a native of Grand Rapids, Ohio, ended her senior campaign with a .285 batting average. The lone Falcon to start all 48 games, she was third on the team with 23 runs batted in, and had a team-best fielding percentage of .987. Frantz, who connected for a long homerun in her final collegiate game, Sunday's (May 5) 9-5 win at Ohio, had her first two career round-trippers this season.
Frantz had at least one hit in 12 of the season's final 14 games. After totalling eight runs and eight RBI in her first 34 games of the season, Frantz scored 13 runs and drove in 15 in those final 14 contests. She set a school record for career fielding pct. (.989), making just seven career errors in over 600 chances.
Murphy, a native of Marion, Ohio, hit .321 in her first full season of play as a Falcon. She batted .340, good for second on the team, in MAC games, and hit .583 (7-for-12) in her final five games of the season. Murphy hit .433 over her last 15 games of the year, with a pair of three-hit games on the year, vs. Akron and Toledo.
Rosemeier, like Murphy, hit .321 this year, and she batted .337 in conference action. The Hilliard, Ohio, native finished her career with a flurry, batting .458 (11-of-24) in her final six games. In those six contests, she had seven doubles, a homer, five runs scored and 10 RBI.
Rosemeier had at least one hit in 19 of the season's final 21 games, including a career-best 12-game hitting streak. She had the first four-hit game of her career on "Senior Day" (April 28), going 4-for-4 in a win over Buffalo.
Rosemeier ended the year with a team-high 28 RBI, and tied Frantz for the team lead with 14 in MAC games. She had 14 doubles, the fifth-most in a season in school history. Rosemeier ended her career with 34 doubles, fourth in school annals, and 83 RBI, good for third on that career list. Her career batting average of .290 ranks her 13th on that BGSU chart.
The Falcons of fourth-year head coach Leigh Ross-Shaw ended the season with an overall record of 22-25-1 and a MAC slate of 11-13. BGSU tied for third in the East Division. The Brown and Orange will move to the West Division for the 2002-03 campaign.
