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Newport News, Va. – The Fordham softball team scored 37 runs over a total team effort three-game sweep at Rhode Island this weekend but it was sophomore slugger
Madison Shaw's power that earned the Ram her second Atlantic 10 Player of the Week honor of the season, the league announced on Monday afternoon.
Madi Shaw was playing in front of friends and family this weekend at Rhode Island and they were in for some fireworks as half of her at bats ended in a home run over the three-game series. The sophomore homered in all three games and four times overall with two coming in Sunday's series finale and two being game winners. Shaw batted .625 (5-for-8) in the series with the four home runs, seven RBIs, two walks and a stolen base, plus five runs and a sacrifice fly, while never striking out.
Shaw's second inning solo shot in game one proved to be the eventual game winner in a 12-1 win. She finished the contest 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Shaw's lone hit in game two left the yard, a no-doubter to dead center, to give the visitors a 4-0 lead in the third. In game three, Shaw's third inning bomb, also to dead center, again proved to be the game winner in a 13-4 game, but the Raynham, Mass. native wasn't done yet. The lefty smacked a towering three-run blast to right to extend Fordham's lead to seven in the sixth.
The sophomore bumped her season average from .336 to .357 with the series. Her .661 slugging percentage this season is currently the seventh-highest all-time in between volunteer assistant coach
Gabby Luety's 2013 and 2014 season marks.
The Rams travel to Ohio to visit last year's regular season champion, Dayton, for a three-game set. Saturday's doubleheader begins at noon.
