Boston College Athletics
Blumfield Earns BIG EAST Softball Nod
February 25, 2002 | Softball
Feb. 25, 2002
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Junior short Stop Cara Blumfield (West Hills, Calif.) earned the first BIG EAST Player of the Week nod in softball of the 2002 season after leading the Eagles at the Georgia State Round Robin this last weekend. She shared the honor with Kathleen Jones of Virginia Tech.
In five games last weekend, Blumfield batted .647 (11-for-17) and had three home runs, one triple, four doubles and 10 runs batted in. She also took 26 total bases and had a 1.529 slugging percentage.
Blumfield did all of her damage in the last four games of the tournament. Against host Ga. State, she was 3-for-4 with a double and a home run. She added two runs batted in. In the following game against No. 16 Iowa, Blumfield went 2-for-3 with one run scored.
On Sunday, she started the day 3-for-3 against Drexel, all on extra-base hits. She had two doubles and one triple that drove home two runners. She also scored two runs. Her triple drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning.
The Eagles' final tilt of the tournament was a career game for her. She went 3-for-4 with two home runs and a double. Blumfield also drove in a career-high six runs in the first multiple-home run game of her career.
In 2001, Blumfield was honored with the league's last Player of the Week honor of the season. Last year, she set nine school records, including school records in batting average (.389), RBI (51), runs scored (39), home runs (14), slugging percentage (.745) and on-base percentage (.479). She ranked among the final Division I leaders in the NCAA in batting, home runs, RBI and slugging percentage.
The Eagles are currently 3-7 on the season and will travel west for the annual Spring Break trip. BC will play three at Arizona State on March 1-3, then play two at defending national champion Arizona on March 5-6. The team will than take part in UNLV's tournament, playing two against Oregon and the host Rebels.
