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ALL-CONFERENCE: Bradely, Tsuruda Earn All-Northwest Conference Honors
Chelsea Bradely | 
Kerstyn Tsuruda |
2009
All-Northwest Conference Softball Teams
NEWBERG, Ore. – Chelsea
Bradely’s first year at George Fox University and
Kerstyn Tsuruda’s last made favorable
impressions around the Northwest Conference as the two have been
selected to the All-Conference Teams, Bradely to the First Team and
Tsuruda to the Second Team, as voted on by the league’s eight
coaches.
Bradely, a junior from Salem, Ore., by way of West Salem
High School and Chemeketa Community College, was chosen to the
All-NWC First Team as a utility player, a role she performed well
for the Bruins. As the team’s No. 1
pitcher, she posted a 5-24 record, collecting every one of the
team’s wins during a 5-32 season. She had
a 5.44 earned run average with 160 strikeouts and only 47 walks in
175.0 innings, appearing in 29 games, all starts, with 24 complete
games. She led the NWC in starts and innings,
and was 2nd in strikeouts and 3rd in appearances.
Among her best performances on the mound, Bradely, a southpaw,
threw a shutout in a 1-0 win over Lewis & Clark College, and
tossed a two-hitter at Concordia University-Portland but lost 1-0
on an unearned run. She reached double figures
in strikeouts three times, with a high of 15 in her final start
against the University of Dallas.
When not pitching, Bradely played first base and had a .960
fielding average. At the plate, she led the
Bruins with a .394 batting average, 37 hits, 7 home runs, 25 RBIs,
19 runs scored, 20 walks, a .691 slugging percentage, a .500 on
base percentage, and tied for the lead with 7
doubles. She was 3rd in the conference in on
base pct. and walks, 6th in home runs, 7th in slugging, and 12th in
batting.
During the season, Bradely had nine multi-hit games, with a 4-for-4
game at Northwest Christian University. In a
doubleheader sweep at the University of Puget Sound, she went a
collective 3-for-4, hitting two home runs in the first game and
another in the second, scored five times and drove in nine, and
walked five times, drawing three intentional passes in the second
game.
Tsuruda, a senior from Waimanalo, Hawai’i and
Kalaheo High School, was named to the All-NWC Second Team as a
catcher. She batted a solid .267 as the
Bruins’ lead-off hitter, fourth on the team, and struck out
only 7 times in 105 at bats. She was second on
the team in walks with 12, tied for second with 11 runs scored, was
third in hits with 28, and had 3 doubles and 4
RBIs. She had six multi-hit games, going 3-for-4
in a game at Puget Sound and 3-for-3 against Lewis & Clark.
Defensively, Tsuruda fielded a solid .979 behind the plate, leading
the team with 183 putouts and 234 total chances.
She also threw out 15 runners trying to steal.
She was 3rd in the conference in chances and runners caught
stealing, and 4th in putouts.
Conference champion and No. 1-ranked Linfield College dominated the
individual awards, with infielder Staci Doucette being named the
2009 NWC Player of the Year, Brittany Miller the Pitcher of the
Year, and Jackson Vaughan the Coach of the Year.
