Lake Forest College Sports Information
May 11, 2010
Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID

Four Foresters Named All-MWC South, Lake Forest Sweeps Division's Yearly Awards
Rainey, Ratliff, and Kinsella Named Positional Player, Pitcher, and Coach of the Year, respectively
  

Tracy Rainey Jordan Ratliff
Mallory Norton Megan Harkins
LAKE FOREST, Ill. - The 2010 All-Midwest Conference softball teams were released on Tuesday (May 11). Among the Foresters' four All-MWC South Division honorees were the division's Positional Player and Pitcher of the Year. In addition, Lake Forest's Joe Kinsella was named MWC South Coach of the Year.

Senior shortstop Tracy Rainey (Roselle, Ill./Lake Park) was named MWC South Division Player of the Year for the second straight season. It was her third consecutive appearance on the division's First Team after earning Second Team honors as a freshman. Rainey batted .320 overall and led the Foresters with 35 runs batted in on the season. She hit .463 and ranks among the top five in the league in runs, home runs, runs batted in, and total bases during the 13-game conference schedule.

Freshman Jordan Ratliff (Petersburg, Mich./Summerfield) earned the South Division Pitcher of the Year Award after going 12-6 with two saves and a 1.69 earned run average on the season. Her 141 innings pitched and 93 strikeouts on the year rank second in team history. Ratliff was 5-1 with two saves and a 1.05 ERA during league play and conference opponents batted just .199 against her.

Joe Kinsella
Senior third baseman Mallory Norton (Chicago, Ill./ Resurrection) and freshman second baseman Megan Harkins (Homewood, Ill./Homewood-Flossmoor) joined Rainey and Ratliff on the 13-member All-MWC South Division Team. Norton led Lake Forest and ranked third in the conference with a .412 batting average. Her 54 base hits, seven home runs, and 90 total bases on the season were league highs and she also ranked among the top five in slugging percentage, runs, runs batted in, and triples. Harkins batted .351 and led the MWC with 35 runs scored on the season. She was also second in the conference with 18 stolen bases. She hit .475 in 13 league games.

Kinsella led the Foresters to a 24-14-1 overall record and 12-1 mark in league play. Lake Forest claimed its fourth consecutive division title, raised the program's MWC record under Kinsella to 41-6, and reached the conference championship game for the third time in his four seasons as head coach. It was his second consecutive conference coach of the year honor and the third of his career after earning the award in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference in 2003 while coaching at Millsaps College.

Midwest Conference Release (pfd)