GVSU's Cirrincione, DU's Muilenburg Earn Softball Weekly Awards

Posted: Apr 26, 2021

GLIAC -- The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) has announced its seventh weekly awards for the 2021 softball season. Grand Valley State sophomore Joanna Cirrincione was named Softball Player of the Week, while Davenport Pitcher Ellie Muilenburg was selected Softball Pitcher of the Week.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK - Joanna Cirrincione, Grand Valley St.

Joanna Cirrincione has been named GLIAC Player of the Week for the seventh week of the 2021 season. This is her first weekly honor of the season and it is the second time a Laker has earned the award this year. Cirrincione was the table setter for the Laker offense, starting all six games in the leadoff spot and hitting .400 for the week, stealing three bases, scoring eight runs and driving in a pair. She reached base and scored at least one run in all six games and consistently provided RBI opportunities for the heart of the order. The Lakers scored 32 runs through the three doubleheaders with Cirrincione scoring a quarter of the team’s tallies.

PITCHER OF THE WEEK - Ellie Muilenburg, Davenport

Fresh off Davenport's first seven-inning no-hitter in nearly five years and the first ever at the Panthers' Farmers Insurance Athletic Complex (opened in 2013), DU's junior hurler, Ellie Muilenburg, has been named GLIAC Pitcher of the Week. Muilenburg is the first Davenport pitcher not named Mallory Teunissen to receive the honor who last did so for the third time in a single season back on April 23, 2018. Muilenburg struck out a career high 15 Parkside Ranger batters needing all 21 outs to do so and faced just three batters over the minimum in the 3-0 Davenport victory. The seven-inning no-hitter was also the program's first in a home game regardless of the facility going all the way back to April 16, 2011.

HONORABLE MENTION

PLAYER: Alli Hylton (AU), Rachel Griffin (DU), Julia Salisbury (SVSU), Emily Cox (NU), Paige Kortz (FSU), Megan Aliverti (UWP), Rainey Psenicka (WSU), Briana Poehler (PNW),

PITCHER: Jillian Middleton (AU), Emily Depew (SVSU), Delanie Grundman (NU), Kaitlyn Nugent (FSU), Allison Hausl (UWP), Brooke Nadolny (WSU), Hannah Beatus (GVSU)

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