Bowling Green State University Athletics
Gina Rango a Repeat Selection to Easton All-America Team
June 08, 2006 | Softball
June 8, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Bowling Green State University softball standout Gina Rango has been selected to the 2006 Easton-Bell All-America team. Rango, a senior in 2006, was chosen to the third team for the second consecutive year.
Rango is the first-ever Falcon softball standout to earn multiple All-American honors, and has garnered two of the three such honors in BGSU softball history. Amy Lienhardt earned second-team honors from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association in 1988, and Rango was an Easton All-American in 2005.
Rango was the only Mid-American Conference player selected to the team.
Rango, a native of North Lima, Ohio (Boardman HS), recently completed her senior season. The third baseman was a four-time All-Great Lakes Region selection, the first in school history. Only six times has a BGSU player been named to the all-region first team, and Rango has been that player, obviously, on four occasions. She also was the first-ever Falcon to be named to the All-MAC First Team in all four seasons.
Rango led the Falcons with a .366 batting average in 2006, and also paced the Brown and Orange in hits (67), doubles (14 - tied for team lead), homeruns (a school-record 10), RBI (32), total bases (113), slugging percentage (.617) and on-base pct. (.423). Rango was second on the team in runs scored (30) in '06.
In MAC games only, Rango hit a whopping .432 with five homers, 13 RBI and a slugging percentage of .730.
She wrapped up her Falcon tenure as the school record-holder in no fewer than 10 categories, including batting average (.367), games played (229) and started (229), at-bats (711), hits (261), RBI (132), doubles (51), homers (26), total bases (404) and slugging percentage (.568).
The Falcons of head coach Leigh Ross finished the 2006 campaign with an overall mark of 37-23 on the spring, tying the school record for victories in a season. BGSU had a 16-6 ledger in MAC action, qualifying for the league tourney for the eighth time in the last nine seasons.
A total of 45 student-athletes, representing 24 schools, were named to the 2006 Easton-Bell All-America first, second and third teams. Women's College World Series participant UCLA led the way with five players chosen to the teams.
EASTON-BELL SPORTS
2006 ALL-AMERICA TEAMS
First Team
Caitlin Benyi, UCLA Christina Clark, Fresno State Andrea Duran, UCLA Erin Floros, San Diego State Ianeta Le'i, BYU Kellie Middleton, Georgia Cambria Miranda, Oregon State Cat Osterman, Texas Anjelica Selden, UCLA Jessica Strickland, Colorado State Kristina Thorson, California Stephanie VanBrakle, Alabama Jackie Wong, Utah Haley Woods, California Veronica Wootson, Florida State
Second Team
Lauren Castle, LSU Jessica Doucette, Georgia Whitney Haller, Georgia Tech Amerra Kesterson, Biola Leslie Klein, LSU Jodie Legaspi, UCLA Megan McAllister, Georgia Brianne McGowan, Oregon State Whitney Mollica, Massachusetts Brittany Rogers, Alabama Amber Smith, Illinois State Candice Thomas, Cal Baptist Tami Trujillo, Cal Baptist Emily Turner, LSU Desiree Williams, Texas
Third Team
Brandice Balschmiter, Massachusetts Lauren Cisneros, Creighton Sonja Garnett, San Francisco State Alyse Hasty, Delta State Amy Hosier, Georgia Tech Natasha Jacob, Florida State Meagen Johnson, Coastal Carolina Robin Mackin, Fresno State Chantal Millard, Cal Baptist Candice Molinari, Massachusetts Staci Ramsey, Alabama Gina Rango, Bowling Green Tyleen Tausaga, Hawai'i Megan Willis, Texas Emily Zaplatosch, UCLA
