Softball Trio Earns All-MEC Second Team Honors

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Junior infielder Lacie Lewis, sophomore infielder Kendall Morgan, and senior infielder Courtney Raines of the Concord University softball team were voted All-Mountain East Conference Second Team performers, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon.
 
For Raines, she lands on the All-MEC Second Team for the second consecutive season while Lewis and Morgan collect their first All-MEC honors.
 
Lewis, a native of Kearneysville, W.Va., led the team and tied for second in the MEC in home runs this season (11) while also ranking second in the conference in RBI (43). She played and started in all 49 regular season games this spring with 15 multi-hit games. She also owns a pair of walk-off homers: a three-run shot in the bottom of the seventh against California (Pa.) on February 9 to cap off a 4-for-4 performance and a two-run bomb in the bottom of the ninth to down West Liberty on April 4. Along with her 15 multi-hit games, Lewis had multiple RBI in 10 games, the second-most on the team.
 
Morgan also logged 15 multi-hit games this season and led the Mountain Lions with a .362 batting average. The King George, Va. native ranked sixth in the league hitting .414 across 26 MEC games with a pair of four-hit outings. Morgan launched 10 doubles, one triple, and two home runs alongside 22 RBIs in 44 games this spring. She was 4-for-5 with three runs scored in a game at West Virginia Wesleyan March 23 and 4-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three runs scored against West Virginia State March 29. In the field, Morgan sported a fielding percentage of .950 between third base and right field.
 
Raines batted .286 after starting all 49 games this season and clubbing a career-best five home runs. The Salem, Va. native sports an .820 OPS with an on-base percentage of .413 and a slugging percentage of .407. In the field, Raines dons a .960 fielding percentage as the everyday second baseman for the Mountain Lions and helped turn 12 double plays, tied for third in the MEC. In her career, Raines ranks 10^th in program history in hits (166), sixth in RBI (118), and is tied for 10^th in home runs (11).
 
Davis & Elkins' Linzey Allard was named MEC Player of the Year while Charleston's Addison Mass was selected MEC Pitcher of the Year. Alexa Foresha of Fairmont State was tabbed MEC Freshman of the Year and Glenville State's Sara Scoone was voted MEC Coach of the Year by her peers.
 
The Mountain Lions play Fairmont State in the opening round of the MEC Tournament at the Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Va. Wednesday at 5:00 p.m.