BABSON PARK, Mass.—Babson College senior
Moira O'Reilly (Columbus, Ohio) received her third straight Pitcher of the Year award and was joined by junior
Sara Moore (Kennett Square, Pa.) on the All-Conference team when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) announced its softball postseason award winners on Wednesday afternoon.
O'Reilly was named All-Conference First Team for the third straight year while Moore was voted to the Second Team for the second year in a row. O'Reilly is just the second athlete in NEWMAC history to receive three consecutive Pitcher of the Year honors following Hayley Feindel of Coast Guard from 2009-11. The All-NEWMAC teams are chosen by a vote of the conference head coaches.
It was another outstanding season for O'Reilly, who finished with a 17-9 record, eight shutouts, a 1.34 earned run average, and 232 strikeouts in 177.2 innings. She led the conference in strikeouts, ERA, shutouts, innings pitched, starts (28), complete games (21), and batting average against (.198) and finished second in wins. Her performance this spring ranks in the top 10 on Babson's all-time single-season records list in numerous categories, including tied for second in shutouts, fourth in strikeouts and strikeouts per seven innings; sixth in wins and seventh in earned run average.
O'Reilly is also second in Division III in and eighth among all pitchers in all NCAA Divisions in strikeouts per seven innings as well as ranking fourth in Division III and 23rd in all division in total strikeouts. She is sixth in DIII in shutouts and complete games and seventh in innings pitched.
A four-year lefthander, O'Reilly has a career mark of 62-23 with a 1.70 ERA and 23 shutouts in 95 appearances, striking out 776 batters in 564.1 innings. She is the Babson career leader in wins, shutouts, complete games (65), strikeouts, and strikeouts per seven innings (9.64), and ranks second in ERA, appearances, starts (85), and innings pitched.
A two-time all-region outfielder, Moore led the team in hitting with a .341 average, with six doubles two triples, 14 runs batted in, 27 runs scored and 24 stolen bases. She finished second in the NEWMAC in stolen bases and ranked eighth in runs scored. She posted a team-high 12 multi-hits games, including four-hit outings against Plymouth State and Clark, and had a three-stolen base game in a win over Curry.
Moore, a three-year mainstay in right field for the Beavers, has started all 135 games of her career, batting .377 with 163 hits, 22 doubles, four triples, two home runs, 50 RBI, 97 runs scored, and 70 stolen bases. She is the program career leader in stolen bases, ranks 10th on the all-time record list in hits, and is the only person in program history with two seasons of at least 20 steals.
After limping to a 1-7 start to the season, Babson went 26-11 since then to finish with a 27-18 overall record. The Beavers went 13-7 in the NEWMAC and won three conference tournament games before falling to MIT in the title game.
