

5 Florida State hosts South Alabama on Wednesday at 2 p.m. The Williamsburg, Virginia, native also earned a save against Wisconsin.ĪCC softball action returns Tuesday evening, as Georgia Tech hosts Mercer at 5 p.m. She also logged double digit strikeouts against Mizzou with 11 and held Kentucky to one run on four hits. In her first start of the season, Rochard struck out 15, limiting Northwestern to just three hits and one earned run. The senior posted 34 strikeouts in 20.1 innings, ending her weekend with a. 8 Virginia Tech with a stellar opening weekend, posting a 3-0 record with wins over Northwestern (a team receiving votes for the top 25), No. Rochard, the 2021 ACC Pitcher of the Year, picked up where she left off last season for No. She sparked the scoring for the Blue Devils with a solo homer off Oklahoma State All-American pitcher Miranda Elish to lead Duke to a 4-0 upset of the fifth-ranked Cowgirls.

21 Arizona State, good for the longest stretch of her career. Jacobsen started all five games for Duke and homered in three straight games against No. She was 6-for-13 (.462) at the plate with three home runs, four RBI, five runs scored, three walks, a double and a stolen base. Jacobsen helped the 12th-ranked Blue Devils open the season with a 4-1 record against a stout field at the prestigious Kajikawa Classic.

The ACC softball weekly awards are voted on by a panel from both the teams and the conference office. () - Duke senior outfielder Caroline Jacobsen has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Softball Player of the Week, while Virginia Tech’s senior pitcher Keely Rochard has been voted the ACC Pitcher of the Week in the first weekly honors of the 2022 season.
