Bowling Green State University Athletics
Wiemer Earns Second MAC Honor of the Week
April 30, 2009 | Softball
April 30, 2009
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Senior Hayley Wiemer, Sylvania, Ohio native and an adolescent, young adult, secondary education major with a perfect 4.00 grade point average was named the Mid-American Conference Female Scholar Athlete of the Week announced by the conference office this afternoon (April 30).
Wiemer is the third MAC softball player to earn the Female Scholar Athlete of the Week this year. This also marks Wiemer's fifth career MAC Female Scholar Athlete of the Week honor to go along with her four MAC Pitcher of the Week honors and three MAC Player of the Week honors.
Earlier this week, Wiemer was also named the MAC East division Player of the week as she led the Falcons in both hitting and pitching last week. She threw every inning of the Falcons' five games, with a 1.52 ERA as BGSU went 2-3. In conference play along last week she posted a 2-2 record with a 0.50 ERA. Overall, she struck out 20 batters in 32 one-third innings. At the plate, Wiemer hit .417 with a 1.000 slugging percentage, going 5-for-12 in the five games, including two homers, six RBI and 12 total bases to lead the team in each of those categories.
In Friday's opening game against Buffalo, she threw a complete-game four-hitter, allowing no earned runs, while offensively she had two hits, including a homer, and three RBIs in the Falcons' 7-1 win over the Bulls. On Saturday, she threw a complete-game four-hit shutout, tying her career high with 10 strikeouts, in an 8-0 win over division-leading Kent State. At the plate, was 2-for-3 with a double, a walk, a run and an RBI. The shutout marked the 51st win of her career, tying her for third in BGSU history. On Sunday, she allowed just one earned run in eight innings, as the Falcons fell 4-3 in extra-innings to the Golden Flashes. At the plate, she crushed a two-run homer, her eighth of the season and the school-record 31st of her career, and drove in two of BG's three runs.
