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Campbell's O'Bryan Earns A-Sun Softball Weekly Player Honor

MACON, Ga. - Campbell University's Shannon O'Bryan (Sr., Louisville Ky.) led the Lady Camels offensively smacking four homers and eight RBI and earns Atlantic Sun Softball Player-of-the-Week honors as announced by the league office today.

O'Byran's power led the Lady Camels to a 4-1 week. She was two-for-three with two homers and four RBI in Campbell's opening game 11-inning 5-4 loss to Elon. O'Bryan continued her offensive power against St. Bonaventure with another two-for-three, one run, two RBI performance. Against Winthrop, she grabbed a double and against St. Francis another homer, two runs and two RBI.

She moved up to second in the Lady Camel record book for career runs with 119 and into fourth place with 215 career hits. She has 36 career homers. For the season, O'Bryan leads the conference in batting average (.500) slugging percentage (.896) and home runs (5). She ranks second in hits (24) and total bases (43), third in runs scored (16) and fourth in on base percentage (.547).

O'Byran and the Lady Camels will face Radford at 3 pm on March 4 before heading south to open their Atlantic Sun schedule against the newest softball program in the conference, Jacksonville on March 7.

Other Campbell Softball Notes:

• Freshman pitcher Lexi Myers (Hanover, Pa.) finished the week with a 3-0 record working two complete games and earning 2.5 shutouts. She scattered five hits over 16.0 innings of work recording an ERA of .000. She posted five strikeouts and walked five in the Camels five game road stretch. Myers improved her record to 4-3 and has pitched 21 consecutive scoreless innings.

• Following the Hampton Inn East Carolina Softball Classic, freshman Kristina Schmallen was named to the All-Tournament team. Schmallen was 7-for-12 at the plate with recording two runs, one double and a stolen base. She made only one error defensively in the tournament.

Saturday, March 1, 2003

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Softball Action at College of Charleston Tournament Rained Out

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Inclement weather cancelled Saturday afternoon's portion of the College of Charleston Softball Tournament. Campbell scheduled game against Virginia and subsequent bracket game were cancelled and will not be made up.

The Fighting Camels picked up three wins in Saturday's action to improve to 8-10 on the season.

Campbell will next travel to Radford for a doubleheader on Tues., March 4. Action is scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m.