Ball State University Athletics
2005 Season Wrap-Up
June 13, 2005 | Softball
RECORD: Ball State concluded the 2005 campaign with a 19-37 overall record, a 6-16 Mid-American Conference mark and a sixth-place finish in the league's West Division . . . The Cardinals collected three wins in their final three series and took 2-of-3 from eventual MAC Tournament Champion Miami in Oxford, Ohio, April 30 and May 1.
HEAD COACH TERRI LAUX: Terri Laux (Ohio State '84) completed her ninth season as head coach at Ball State . . . The sixth coach in the 31-year history of the sport at the university, Laux has guided four of her teams -- 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1998 -- to berths in the MAC's post-season tournament . . . She reaped MAC Coach of the Year accolades after leading the 1998 team to the school's first-ever league title and a berth in the NCAA Championship Tournament . . . She directed the 1998 Cardinals to a school record 39 wins and the program's first national ranking of 31st in the Final USA Today/NFCA Division I Softball Poll . . . Laux is the winningest coach in school history -- accomplishing the feat with her 202nd win April 6 over Indiana State . . . She has tallied a 209-253-1 mark at BSU and a 361-501-3 overall ledger in her 18 years as a collegiate head coach.
RADIO COVERAGE: WCRD FM 91.3 carried 14 games this season in an expanded package from previous years . . . Shane Wilkinson was the voice for the Cardinals . . . In addition this spring, WCRD premiered a weekly radio show with head coach Terri Laux . . . Wilkinson was the host of the show.
MAC STATISTICAL LEADERS: Amy Brownfield finished 17th among Mid-American Conference pitchers with her 2.60 ERA . . . In addition, she was fifth in innings pitched (191.1), appearances (36) and complete games (19), eighth in opponents' batting average (.225) plus 10th in strikeouts (117) . . . In league games only, Brownfield ranked 12th with a 1.63 ERA . . . She also placed second in innings pitched (103) and complete games (12), fourth in appearances (15) and games started (13), eighth in opponents' batting average (.198) plus ninth in strikeouts (63) . . . In MAC offensive stats, Taylor Yancey and Sarah McGregor tied for third with three each . . . Kelli Jeziorski ranked sixth in doubles (13) . . . McGregor and Amanda Pick tied for sixth with 19 walks apiece . . . In league games, Katie Pilger finished seventh with three home runs . . . Jeziorski, Pick, Yancey and McGregor tied for fifth with one triple each . . . Cortney Patteson and Pick finished tied for second and tied for fifth, respectively, with 11 and 10 walks each.
RECORDS/TOP-5 MARKS: Ball State set a single-season team record with 18 home runs, bettering the previous mark of 11 achieved in 1993 . . . BSU's 107 walks and 56 games tie for second on single-season charts . . . In addition, the 1,463 at-bats is fourth, while the 53 triples this spring tie for fifth all time . . . The Cardinals produced the third-best fielding percentage (.960) and the fifth-most putouts ever (1,141) in 2005 . . . Individually, Sarah McGregor's five home runs tie for second on single-season charts, while Katie Pilger's four tie for fourth . . . Kelli Jeziorski's 13 doubles tie for third . . . McGregor and Amanda Pick finished the season tied for the fifth-most walks in a season at 19 each . . . Defensively, Pilger's 413 putouts place fourth on BSU single-season charts, while her .995 fielding percentage ranks fifth.
THIS AND THAT: Six players hit their first collegiate home runs this season . . . Sarah McGregor hit her first collegiate four-bagger March 5 vs. Valparaiso and finished the year with a team-high five . . . Katie Pilger's first of four homers came March 27 against South Dakota State . . . Kelli Jeziorski went yard for the first time March 9 at then 21st-ranked Missouri . . . The most memorable of her three home runs in 2005 came with the game-winning hit and run in a 6-2 win over Miami in the series finale May 1 . . . Quincy Duran's first collegiate homer was at home March 19 vs. IUPUI . . . Abby Gross hit her first long ball March 6 against Valparaiso, while Amanda Pick went yard for the first time March 15 vs. Dayton . . . Pick's two-run bomb in the top of the 11th put BSU up for good against the Flyers.
• Head coach Terri Laux reached a program milestone April 6 with BSU's 7-3 win over Indiana State . . . The victory gave her 202 in her tenure at Ball State, making her the winningest coach in program history . . . Laux earned her 200th decision at the school with the Cardinals' 10-4 win over IUPUI March 29.
• BSU posted a 5-3 mark in eight extra inning games this season . . . The longest game of the 2005 campaign was a 12-inning (3:16) 3-2 loss to Toledo April 3 . . . BSU produced an 8-5 11-inning (3:03) verdict over Dayton March 15 . . . The Cardinals rallied back from a 5-1 deficit before sending the game into additional play and eventually defeating the Flyers . . . Ball State was also 3-1 in nine-inning games plus 1-1 in eight-inning contests this spring.
• BSU's seven runs scored against Missouri tied for the most by an opponent against the Tigers this season . . . UM, which finished the year ranked 16th, also surrendered seven runs to 13th-ranked Baylor in the Big 12 Tournament.
• BSU accumulated double-digit hit totals six times this spring, including a season-high 15 against Dayton March 15 and again against IUPUI March 29 . . . The Cardinals posted one double-digit scoring mark -- 10-4 over IUPUI.
• Amanda Pick led the team with 10 multiple hit outings . . . Kelli Jeziorski and Abby Gross were second with nine apiece, while Taylor Yancey and Alyssa Huffman tied for fourth with seven each . . . Sarah McGregor had a team-best six multiple RBI contests . . . Abby Gross was second with four.
• Kelli Jeziorski finished the spring with a season and career-high seven-game winning streak.
FOUR SENIORS CONCLUDE CAREERS: Four Ball State seniors -- Amy Brownfield, Randi Freese, Alyssa Huffman and Crystal Newton -- concluded their careers this spring . . . Brownfield, Freese and Newton are all four-year letterwinners, while Huffman is a three-time letterwinner for the Cardinals . . . Brownfield had a career season, leading the Cardinals and registering career high marks in all statistical categories . . . Huffman also logged career-best marks in hits (38), runs scored (16), doubles (2), RBI (3), batting average (.222), putouts (110) and assists (124) . . . She played in all 56 games with 54 starts, including 41 at shortstop.
