TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology sophomore second baseman Ashley Montgomery (Plainfield) has earned softball first-team all-region honors, and freshman outfielder Jennifer Pint (Mooresville/Plainfield) captured third-team accolades in results released by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

 

Montgomery established single-season school records with 42 games started, 14 stolen bases and 11 double plays turned this season.  She also ranked third in school history with 37 runs scored and stands fifth on the single-season hits list with 48.

 

On the season, Montgomery batted .345 with nine doubles, one triple and only five errors as the team's starter in every game at second base.  She previously earned honorable mention all-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference honors last season.

 

Montgomery ranks fourth in the SCAC in stolen bases, fifth in runs scored and eighth in hits and doubles.  Her efforts this season included 14 multiple-hit games, including three games with three hits each, and a seven-game hitting streak late in the season.

 

Jennifer Pint -- third-team all-region

Pint led the Engineers with a .400 batting average, a .463 on-base average and a .582 slugging average this spring. 

 

Pint ranks second in single-season school history with four home runs, third in slugging, fourth in hit by pitches (4) and fifth in batting average.  She also ranks in the top five in the SCAC this season in each category.

 

Her season included 11 multiple-hit games, highlighted by a four-hit game at Sewanee.  She drove home five runs in a game at Sewanee and recorded four RBIs in wins over Hanover and Blackburn.

 

The former high school teammates helped the Engineers place fourth in the SCAC Tournament and compile a 13-29 record in 2006.