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Softball Player and Pitcher of the Week
Utah's Wong and San Diego State's Ross honored
April 4, 2006 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Utah's Jackie Wong and San Diego State's Christina Ross were named the Mountain West Conference Softball Player and Pitchers of the week, respectively. It marked the second career honor for Wong and first for Ross. Wong, an Antioch, Calif., native, led Utah's potent offense to two conference wins last weekend. In game one against UNLV, the senior lead-off hitter belted her second homer of the season, a grand-slam home run that helped Utah tie the school record with 18 runs in a game. Wong also added three scores, allowing Utah to set the single-game record for RBI in a game (18). She has hit two homeruns this year, while entering the season with only one career homer to her credit. She ended up plating five RBI in game one against UNLV and finished the series going 4-for-6 (.667). She led the team with a 1.167 slugging percentage and had seven total bases on only four hits. She also had an impressive .714 on-base percentage. Her efforts last weekend lifted her league-leading batting average from .441 to .455. Ross, hailing from Santa Clarita, Calif., tossed 10.0 innings of scoreless softball and went 2-0 as SDSU swept BYU in Provo. She allowed only five hits and one walk, while striking out six batters over the two games. Ross came in relief in the fourth inning of the first game with two runners on and no outs. She got them out of the jam by allowing a sacrifice bunt, striking out the next batter and getting a groundout on the final batter. Ross allowed four hits and a walk, and struck out three over the final 4.0 innings. She also pitched a complete game shutout in the second game, giving up only two hits in 6.0 innings, while retiring the final 15 batters.
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