Garboden Earns Big East Softball Weekly Honor

Second week in a row for a Villanova freshman player.

March 16, 1999

Villanova, Pa. --- Freshman first baseman Heather Garboden (Beaverton, Ore./ Beaverton) is this week's Big East Softball Rookie of the Week. In Villanova's two games this past week, Garboden hit .333 (2-for-6) and had an on-base percentage of .429 (including one HBP). Her biggest moment of the week came in Villanova's 5-4 eight-inning victory over Colgate University in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader when the rookie came up huge with the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the eighth. Garboden raised her season batting average to .324 and increased her RBI total to 14, second on the team, in helping 9-3 Villanova to 5-4 and 8-2 wins on Saturday. With Garboden taking the honors this week, it marks the second time in as many weeks of the award in 1999 that a Villanova first-year player has won; last week, freshman outfielder Molly Hanneman (Salem, Ore./ Jesuit) was the winner.

Statistics for games March 8 through March 14, 1999

Name	G	AB	AVG	OBP	H	1B	2B	RBI	HBP	PO	A	E
Heather Garboden	2	6	.333	.429	2	1	1	1	1	9	2	0

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