KJCCC Division I Softball Players of the Week, Week 8, 2016

Holly Posegate was instrumental in helping Barton to six victories last week as a pitcher with three wins and as a player batting .556 with a 1.000 slugging percentage driving in at least one run in all but one of the Cougars' games last week.  Posegate began the week with a 4-of-6 performance sparking game one's victory breaking a tie with a leadoff double eventually scoring the game winner then capping the doubleheader sweep with a two-run homerun icing the victory.  Posegate also drove in a game winner and had a two-run homerun against Garden City before finished her week driving in the tying run and scoring the game winner in Barton's tightest game of the week.  

Madison Didion struck out twenty-four batters in 17.0 innings of work helping Barton to three victories while moving up to No. 5 on the nation's strikeout leaderboard.   Equally if not more impressive from her outings was keeping the runs against at a minimum despite battling a pitcher's nightmare of a sustained 20-30mph wind blowing out to left field all week.  Starting her week with an eight strikeout performance in five innings on Monday, Didion threw a two-hit five strikeout midweek game before striking out eleven in the tightly contested two-run victory on Friday.   The trio of wins improved the freshman's record to 20-1 on the season leading Barton to its highest national ranking in school history.