BEVERLY, Mass. – Three members of the Endicott softball team have earned Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) weekly honors, as announced by the league office earlier today.
Raven Comtois (Milford, N.H.), Jaylin Couto (Taunton, Mass.), and Chloe Shapleigh (Lynnfield, Mass.) received Player, Pitcher, and Rookie of the Week accolades, respectively.
RAVEN COMTOIS | JR. | C
Comtois batted .471/.500./.706 in five CCC Softball Championship Tournament games as the Gulls went 5-0 to claim the CCC Tournament title. She also scored one run and drove in seven during the tournament.
Comtois’ best game came in the Gulls tournament opener against No. 8 seed Roger Williams. She went 3-for-4 in that contest with a home run and four RBI.
She had another three-hit game in the Championship clinching game against No. 2 seed Western New England, going 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI.
Comtois was fantastic defensively, handling all 30 of her chances cleanly with two assists and two double plays. She also guided the Endicott pitching staff to a 1.48 ERA in tournament play.
JAYLIN COUTO | SO. | P
Couto earned three wins in the circle for Endicott during its CCC Tournament Championship run. She tossed three complete games and also made a one-inning relief appearance.
Couto tossed 20.0 innings in the tournament allowing just two earned runs, resulting in a 0.70 ERA. She also had nine strikeouts and just one walk in the tournament.
After her one-inning relief appearance against No. 8 seed Roger Williams, she went the distance against No. 5 seed Wentworth, earning the 7-1 win.
Couto allowed just three hits against the Leopards and only one unearned run. She returned the next day, tossing a six-inning, complete-game one-hitter against Roger Williams.
In the Championship Round against No. 2 seed Western New England, she earned the win in the title-clinching contest, going six innings while giving up five hits and three runs (two earned) in the 11-3 run-rule victory.
CHLOE SHAPLEIGH | FR. | INF
Shapleigh made the most of her opportunities during Endicott’s CCC Tournament Championship run.
She made five pinch-hit plate appearances in the tournament, going 3-for-4 with a double, two home runs, and a sac fly. Shapleigh also scored two runs and drove in eight while slashing .750/.600/2.500 during that stretch.
Her biggest hit of the tournament came in game one of the CCC Championship Round as she hit a go-ahead grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning with the Gulls trailing 5-2. Her long bomb was the difference in the 6-5 contest.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (30-11) will play Penn St.-Berks in the first game of the NCAA Tournament Salisbury Regional on Friday, May 13 (time TBD) at Salisbury University.
