2014 All-North Softball

Softball By Kevin Maloney, SID

Rangers Land Six on All-North Softball Team

JACKSON – The Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) announced the 2014 All-North Division Softball Team early Tuesday morning after a vote by the division's head coaches, with a total of six Northwest Rangers being rewarded for their play this spring.

Northwest was led by pitcher Kiley Dunagan, shortstop Alex Barrett and outfielder Katelyn Westbrook on the all-north division first team while second team honors went to utility player Kendall Alford, second baseman Andi Barrett and third baseman Haley Vance. 

Alex Barrett and Kiley Dunagan were the lone two MACJC All-State selections. 

Dunagan was 7-4 with a 1.64 ERA, a save and three combined shutouts in a team-high 68.1 innings of work. She appeared in 21 games (13 starts), scattering 69 strikeouts against 14 walks and holding opponents to a .260 average. Dunagan also hit .455 from the plate in 11 at-bats with a double and three RBIs.

Barrett led the team in average (.413), hits (52), triples (5), walks (17) and RBIs (32) in her lone season after transferring from JCJC and added 20 stolen bases and 38 runs scored.

Westbrook set a new single-season (27) and career (29) stolen base record while hitting .337 from the plate with five doubles, 11 RBIs and 30 runs scored. She also fielded a perfect 1.000 in 56 chances.

Alford was one of the team's top hitters all year and saw action behind the plate and in the infield and outfield. In 43 combined starts, she hit .378 with a team-high 16 doubles, two triples, a home run and 31 RBIs. She threw out five runners from behind the plate while fielding .953 in 128 total chances. 

An. Barrett hit .371 in 43 starts at second base, scoring 45 runs and hitting 11 doubles and four triples to drive in 31 runs. She stole 25 of 27 bases, also breaking the single-season stolen base record. 

Vance shattered her freshman numbers with a breakout sophomore year, hitting .373 with 10 doubles, four triples, a team-best four home runs and 31 RBIs. 

Northwest closed the year 29-14 overall and 18-6 in north play to finish as division runners-up and also set new single-season school records in slugging percentage (.492), hits (390), doubles (83), triples (22), stolen bases (143), hit-by-pitch (48), RBIs (253) and total bases (550).