Bowling Green State University Athletics
2024 Softball Roster
Jersey Number 10
Peyton Dolejs
- Position:
- Outfield
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Mentor
- Hometown:
- Mentor, Ohio
NCAA GAME-BY-GAME & CAREER STATS
PRONUNCIATION
DOUGH-less
THANK YOU
(from Senior Day festivities; April 27, 2024)
"I want to take some time to thank the people that have helped me get here. I want to thank Lexi Carver for being the best friend I could ever ask for and I am thankful to be able to leave with you by my side. I want to thank all my past and current coaches for always having faith in me and always giving me the chance to play the sport that I love. My family has been my why, and their endless support is truly meaningful. I want to thank my parents because I couldn't be here without their endless contributions from the beginning. Whether it was travel ball, high school ball, or now college ball I knew that you would always be there for me and will continue to be there for me. Lastly, I want to thank the little girl that started playing this game and has given me the chance to make so many friendships and have the experience of a lifetime. Peace out Pookies!"
-- Peyton Dolejs
DOLEJS AND THE FALCONS
2024
2023
IN THE NEST FEATURE: July 28, 2022 - Dolejs a Driving Force Behind BGSU Softball's Success
2022
2021
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE BGSU?
"I loved the atmosphere, and it is nice that I get to go to school with my sister."
LINKS
Dec. 6, 2019 -- Willis, Falcons Add Eight to Program
PRONUNCIATION
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Check out this incredible play from @BGSUSoftball's Peyton Dolejs in the 2022 Postseason NISC! ??@SportsCenter #SCTop10 #NISC pic.twitter.com/QD1ihS60ZA
— Postseason NISC (@WomensNISC) May 24, 2022
THANK YOU
(from Senior Day festivities; April 27, 2024)
"I want to take some time to thank the people that have helped me get here. I want to thank Lexi Carver for being the best friend I could ever ask for and I am thankful to be able to leave with you by my side. I want to thank all my past and current coaches for always having faith in me and always giving me the chance to play the sport that I love. My family has been my why, and their endless support is truly meaningful. I want to thank my parents because I couldn't be here without their endless contributions from the beginning. Whether it was travel ball, high school ball, or now college ball I knew that you would always be there for me and will continue to be there for me. Lastly, I want to thank the little girl that started playing this game and has given me the chance to make so many friendships and have the experience of a lifetime. Peace out Pookies!"
-- Peyton Dolejs
DOLEJS AND THE FALCONS
- Dolejs played in a total of 187 games as a Falcon, starting 172
- She finished her BGSU career with a .293 batting average and totals of 147 hits, 26 doubles, eight triples, six homers and 69 RBI
- Dolejs ended her BG tenure tied for 10th on the school's career triples list.
2024
- Named to the Academic All-District® Team, selected by College Sports Communicators
- Earned that honor for the second-straight season
- Named to the Academic All-MAC Team for the third consecuive year
- Named an Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete as well
- The lone Falcon to play in all 44 games
- Started all 44 contests in center field, and hit a team-leading .293 on the year
- Led the Falcons in at-bats (133), hits (39), runs (14 - tied for team lead) and doubles (eight), and ranked second in RBI (18), extra-base hits (10), slugging pct. (.391) and sac bunts (four)
- Had a sparkling .988 fielding percentage, with just one error in 80 chances
- Hit .333 in MAC play, with team-high totals of 81 at-bats, 10 runs, 27 hits, six doubles, 10 RBI and 38 total bases
- Led the Falcons with a .469 slugging percentage in league play, and ranked second on the team with a .353 OBP
- Hit .400 on the season's opening weekend, at the Battle at the Bay
- Had a two-run single in the season-opening win over Furman
- Walked and scored vs. host Coastal Carolina, then went 2-for-2 with a pair of RBI against Louisville
- Drew a walk, had an RBI single and scored a run at Indiana the next weekend
- Two days later, had a two-run double vs. Valparaiso
- Doubled and scored at Morehead State
- Had a walk and an RBI single vs. Illinois State
- Doubled and scored in the middle game of the Buffalo series, then walked and had an RBI single in the next game vs. UB
- Went 2-for-4 in the opening game of the Toledo series, with a triple and a pair of RBI
- Had a hit in each end of the doubleheader sweep of Detroit Mercy
- Batted .600 in the Akron series, going 6-for-10 with a pair of doubles
- Had a sac fly to drive in a run in the opener, then went 6-for-8 over the last two games
- Then, was 4-for-4 with a double, a stolen base and a run scored in the next game
- In the final game vs. the Zips, was 2-for-4 with another double and a run in BG's walk-off win
- Had hits in six-straight at-bats in the Akron series
- Hit .571 in the Ball State series, going 4-for-7 in the there games
- Went 2-for-3 in the opener and 1-for-2 in each of the other two games, with a double in the middle contest, and a walk and a run in the final game
- Over that five-game stretch (the last two Akron games and the BSU series), hit .667 (10-for-15) and raised her batting average 82 points
- Continued that hot hitting by going 2-for-4 in each end of the Central Michigan DH
- Had a double in the opener
- In the nightcap, had an RBI single and came around to score in a four-run fifth inning
- Also drew a walk in the second CMU game
- Had a hit in each game of the Kent State series to extend her hitting streak to a career-high 10 games
- Went 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored in the opener, and singled in each of the other two games
- Was 2-for-3 in the opener at Youngstown State, before seeing her career-best 11-game hitting streak come to an end in the nightcap
- Batted .526 during that hitting streak, going 20-for-38 at the plate and raising her batting average more than 100 points in that time
- On Senior Day, went 4-for-4 with two runs scored and four RBI as the Falcons posted a run-rule win over Northern Illinois
- Had a pair of singles in the first inning alone, as BGSU scored seven runs
- Then, drilled a ball to left, into the wind, for a three-run homer in the third
- In the fifth, helped the Falcons walk it off as she was one of three seniors with back-to-back-to-back hits to plate a run and give BG an 11-3 win
- In the nightcap, drove in another run and had five putouts in CF
- Had a hit and scored a run at Ohio
2023
- Named to the 2023 Academic All-District® Team, selected by College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA)
- Also named to the Academic All-MAC Team
- One of just two Falcons to play in all 50 games
- Made 48 starts to rank second on the team in that category
- Hit .245 on the year, the third-highest average on the club
- Led BGSU in runs scored, with 24, and at-bats, with 147
- Paced the Falcons with four triples among her 11 extra-base hits
- Also had six doubles (second on the team) and a homer
- Tied for the team lead in both multiple-hit games (11) and multi-RBI games (three)
- Made 34 starts in center field and 14 in left
- Had an RBI triple and scored a run in BGSU's win over Valparaiso
- Went 2-for-3 with a run scored and an RBI against Delaware State
- The next day, had two hits with another run and another RBI as BGSU gave number-three Florida a scare before falling, 10-7
- Walked and scored vs. UConn
- Hit .368 at the Evansville tourney, with team-high totals of five runs and seven hits
- Doubled and scored vs. Purdue Fort Wayne, then went 2-for-4 against St. Thomas later that day
- Again was 2-for-4 vs. the Tommies the following day
- Had two hits, including a homer, and drove in three runs vs. host Evansville
- Was named to the All-Tournament Team at Auburn's Jane B. Moore Memorial Tournament
- Went 3-for-4 with a walk, two runs and a three-RBI triple in a win over Tennessee Tech
- Doubled and scored in another win over TTU the next day
- Had one hit in the Toledo series, but drew a walk, was hit by a pitch and had three sac bunts vs. the Rockets
- Her hit was a two-run single in the latter game, a BG win over the Rockets
- Was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI vs. Ohio
- Walked, singled and scored at Buffalo
- Hit .571 in the Akron series, going 4-for-7 with a walk
- Went 2-for-2 in the opener, then had a single in game two
- Walked, doubled and scored a run in game three at Akron
- Tripled and scored against Ball State in the middle game of that series
- Then, went 2-for-3 with another triple and a run scored in the final game vs. BSU
- Singled on the first pitch of the game at Central Michigan, and came around to score
- Scored a run in each of the first two games of the Kent State series
- Had three hits and scored a team-high three runs in the Northern Illinois series
- Took a homer away from an NIU hitter with a leaping catch in the opener
- In the next day's doubleheader, had a double in each game
- Scored a run in the first game that day
- Then, in the nightcap, had two hits, including another double, and scored two runs
- Also made a nifty running catch late in that game to help BGSU preserve the lead en route to a 4-2 win
IN THE NEST FEATURE: July 28, 2022 - Dolejs a Driving Force Behind BGSU Softball's Success
2022
- Named to the Academic All-MAC Team
- Also named an Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete
- Started all 55 of BGSU's games
- Hit .275 to rank fourth on the team
- Was second on the Falcons in runs (30) and RBI (27), and ranked third in walks (23), doubles (seven - tied for third), extra-base hits (12) and total hits (47)
- Led the team with two triples
- Went 3-for-4 (.750) when batting with the bases loaded
- Was second on the club with seven multiple-RBI games, and tied for second with 14 multi-hit contests
- Hit .340 with a .450 on-base pct. in home games
- Batted .329 with a team-leading total of 16 RBI in neutral-site contests
- Had a stellar opening weekend, hitting .429 at the DePaul Dome Tournament
- Scored six runs and drove in five, tying for the team lead with six hits on the weekend
- Had an on-base pct. of .556 and a slugging pct. of .571 in the five games
- Went 2-for-3 in each of the first three games of the year
- Had a double, a walk, two runs and three RBI in the season opener vs. Western Illinois
- Later that day, again went 2-for-3 with a sac bunt, a walk, a run and an RBI vs. Butler
- Her two hits included a double against Eastern Illinois, and she again walked in that game, while scoring two runs and driving in one
- Walked and scored in BG's second win over Butler on the weekend
- Hit .429 for the second-straight weekend, this time at the NC State Invitational
- Went 3-for-4 and drove in two runs in a win over Delaware
- Then, doubled and homered vs. Central Connecticut State, scoring two runs and driving in three
- Had four hits and a team-leading five RBI at the UE Invitational
- Walked and had a bases-loaded, bases-clearing single vs. Creighton
- Doubled in three trips against Green Bay, with a run and an RBI
- Had an RBI triple as part of a 2-for-3 game vs. Morehead State
- Had a hit later that day vs. host Evansville, but that game was halted due to rain and declared a no-contest with BGSU up, 2-0, in the fifth
- Recorded five hits, including a triple, in four games at the Lady Bison Classic in Nashville
- Walked and singled vs. Pitt, then had a hit, a stolen base, a sac fly and a pair of RBI against host Lipscomb
- Had a hit, a walk and scored a pair of runs in the rematch with Pitt
- Then, had two hits including an RBI triple vs. Houston Baptist
- Went 2-for-3 in the MAC opener vs. Northern Illinois, then had a two-run homer in game two
- Walked and scored a run in the final game of the weekend
- Had a bases-loaded walk in BG's 7-1 win over Toledo
- The next day, went 2-for-2 with a walk, a double and two runs scored in a 6-0 win over the Rockets
- Walked and scored as BGSU completed the series sweep with a come-from-behind win over UT
- Drew a walk in each of the two games at Western Michigan, scoring a run in the opener
- Hit .385 in the Buffalo series, scoring four runs in the three games
- Had a walk and a double in the opener, and also made several nice catches in that 14-inning win
- The next day, went 1-for-4 with a stolen base and a run in the first game, then was 3-for-4 in the second contest
- Scored two runs and drove in another in the latter contest
- Went 2-for-4 and scored a run vs. Detroit Mercy
- Then, walked, singled and scored another run in the nightcap of the UDM DH
- Had a grand slam with the Falcons down to their final out at league-leading Miami
- That blast plated all of BG's runs in a 4-2 road win over the RedHawks
- Was 2-for-3 with a walk in that win
- Had a hit in each end of the Saturday DH vs. Akron, then reached base in all three plate appearances on Sunday
- In the latter game, walked twice and was hit by a pitch in BG's 9-0 win
- Singled and scored in a win at Ball State
- The next day, reached base three times and scored another run in another 2-1 BG win
- In the latter game, was hit by a pitch twice and also singled
- Went 2-for-2 with an RBI double in a 3-1 win over Central Michigan
- Walked and scored a run at Kent State, then h ad a hit in the second game of that DH
- Had a hit in the MAC Tournament opener at Miami, then singled and walked in BG's win over Ohio
- Also had a sac bunt in the latter game, as the Falcons won, 5-3, in 10 innings
- Went 2-for-4 and scored a run in BGSU's win over Stephen F. Austin in the NISC opener
- Made several spectacular catches in the NISC contest vs. Kansas, including one that was the number-six play on ESPN SportsCenter's Top-10 plays (see above)
2021
- Named an Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar Athlete
- Played in 38 games, making 25 starts
- Finished third on the team with a .368 batting average
- Had an on-base pct. of .419 and a slugging pct. of .515 to rank second on the Falcons in both categories
- Had seven extra-base hits, scoring 15 runs and driving in 10
- Tied for second on the team in stolen bases, going a perfect 5-for-5
- In MAC play, hit .411 with a .459 OBP and a .589 slugging pct., ranking second on the team on all three lists
- Started all four games of the Cleveland State series on the first weekend of her career, and had a pair of hits and a walk
- Scored the game's lone run in a pinch-running appearance as BGSU topped Radford at the following weekend's Winthrop tournament
- Had a pinch-hit sac bunt and reached on an error the next weekend against Indiana State, then stole a base and scored a seventh-inning run as BG broke a 2-2 tie with a six-run inning
- Saw action in two games in the MAC-opening series vs. Central Michigan
- Entered three of the four games at Ball State as a pinch-runner, scoring a run in the series opener
- Appeared in all four games of the Akron series in a pinch-running role
- Started both ends of a DH at Buffalo on April 10, and went 3-for-6 with three runs scored on the day
- In the opener, was 1-for-3 with a run scored
- Then, in game two, hit the first home run of her collegiate career
- In that latter game, was 2-for-3 with a walk, a stolen base and two runs scored in BGSU's 5-4 win
- Had four hits, including a pair of doubles, and drove in four runs in the Ohio series
- Started all four games in Athens, and went 1-for-3 with an RBI double in the opener and 1-for-2 in the second game
- Then, in the third game of the series, was 2-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and three RBI
- Her double came with the bases loaded, and drove in all three runners as part of a seven-run third inning
- Walked and singled in BGSU's 5-3, nine-inning win at Toledo
- Her base hit drove in a run that tied the game in the sixth inning, and she came around to score and give the Falcons the lead
- After starting seven-straight games in the outfield, started all four games of the Kent State series at second base
- Had a hit in each of the last three games of that series, including a double
- Singled vs. Toledo at Meserve Field
- Continued her stellar play in the Miami series
- Went 2-for-4 with a two-run single in Saturday's first game vs. the RedHawks
- In the nightcap, was 2-for-3 with a triple and a run scored
- Also in that game, made two spectacular catches in right field, helping the Falcons post a 2-1 walk-off win
- Went 4-for-5 with a walk and three runs scored, as BGSU swept Western Michigan in a DH at Meserve Field
- Had two hits in each game, and scored what proved to be the winning run in both contests
- After recording two singles in the opener, she had a single, a double, a walk, a stolen base and two runs in game two
- Went 3-for-6 in a Friday doubleheader sweep at Northern Illinois, with a double in the first game
- In the second game, was 2-for-3 with a walk, a sac bunt, two runs and two RBI
- Was injured early in the first game on Saturday, and missed the final three games of the season
HIGH SCHOOL
- Earned four letters at Mentor H.S. ('20) under coaches Michelle Thompson and Russ Dolejs (her father)
- Named to the All-Greater Cleveland Conference Team in both 2018 and '19 (senior season was canceled due to COVID-19)
- Hit .325 for the Cardinals as a freshman, scoring 24 runs and driving in 14
- As a soph, batted .459 with 30 runs and 19 RBI
- Helped the team to a 16-4 record in her junior season, and was named to the All-District Team in addition to repeating on the All-GCC Team
- Batted .580 that year, scoring 35 runs with 28 RBI
- Captained the team in each of her last two years
- Graduated summa cum laude
- National Honor Society
- Named to the Honor Roll every year
- Was an AP Scholar with honors
PERSONAL
- Born in Mentor, Ohio
- A mathematics major at BGSU
- Daughter of Russ and Stephanie Dolejs
- Mother played collegiate basketball at Baldwin Wallace
- Has an older sister, Mackenzie
- Has played travel ball for Ohio Lasers and Beverly Bandits
- Hit .330 with the Lasers and .333 for the Bandits, with a combined 254 runs and 170 RBI
- Favorite athlete is Elena Delle Donne
- Lists her family as her biggest influence
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE BGSU?
"I loved the atmosphere, and it is nice that I get to go to school with my sister."
LINKS
Dec. 6, 2019 -- Willis, Falcons Add Eight to Program
SB: First Pitch Dinner Recap (Jan. 11, 2024)
Wednesday, January 24
BGSU-CMU Softball Highlights (May 13, 2022)
Saturday, May 14
BGSU In The Nest : Nikki and Alex Sorgi (Softball)
Wednesday, May 08
BG Softball Beats Akron in Game 1 on Senior Day 4.27
Saturday, April 27
