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2020 Softball Roster

Claire Johnson
John Kean
John Kean
John Kean

1 Avery English

  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Carterville
  • Hometown Carterville, IL

Biography

2019: Named to All-GLVC Third Team as a pitcher...Appeared in 19 games while making starts in 14 of them...Led the team with a 2.14 ERA and 66 strikeouts...Finished with a 9-7 record in 108.0 innings of work...Gave up just two homeruns all season...Finished with the 5th best ERA in the GLVC...Had a season best seven strikeouts against Drury (3/17)...Had five or more strikeouts in seven contests...Pitched nine complete games...Currently sits 8th All-Time with 300 career strikeouts and 38 wins...Named a 2018-2019 GLVC Brother James Gaffney Distinguished Scholar...Named to the 2018-2019 Geico GLVC Academic All-Conference Honors...

2018: Third-team All-GLVC selection as a pitcher…finished the season with an 18-12 record, two saves and 2.82 earned run average…struck out 126 hitters in 218.1 innings…threw the fourth-most innings of any pitcher in a season in school history and tied for the fourth-highest number of complete games with 27…became the first Miner pitcher to compile at least 18 wins in a season in 11 years…recorded shutouts in back-to-back starts against Lewis and Quincy…had a two-hit complete game performance against Ouachita Baptist and allowed just three hits in a complete game win over GLVC regular season champion Illinois Springfield.

2017: Named to the All-GLVC third team in her first season at Missouri S&T…finished with an 11-15 record, 2.60 earned run average and three shutouts…struck out 108 hitters in 175 1/3 innings of work; strikeout total ranked eighth in the GLVC…allowed two hits over six shutout innings in a win over Lindenwood…fired a two-hit shutout with five strikeouts against Bellarmine…also threw complete game shutouts against Maryville (over nine innings) and Lewis…had a season-high eight strikeouts in an 11-inning performance against Quincy, a game in which she also drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the 11th…batted .191 on the year with two runs batted in.

High School: English helped lead Carterville High School to a 32-3 record and the Illinois Class 2 state championship in softball in 2016...she pitched the final 2.2 and allowed one hit to earn the save in the 6-3 win over Dupo in the championship game...she was an Illinois Class 2 First Team All-State selection and was named the Southern Illinoisn's Softball Player of the Year...she finished the year with a record of 18-1 and had an ERA of 0.50...her only loss of the season came against McCracken County, Kentucky...in the batter's box she hit .337 with three home runs and drove in 16 runs...English was also a standout player on the basketball court averaging 19.5 points, 3.6 steals and 3.5 rebounds per game as a senior...she helped her team capture four straight regional championships and guided the Lions to the Illinois Class 2 Sweet Sixteen last season...she was also named The Southern Illinoisan's Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

Personal: English is the daughter of Robert English and Elizabeth Tregoning...majoring in engineering.

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Historical Player Information

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    2017Freshman

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    2018Sophomore

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    2019Junior

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    2020Senior

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