Curran, Glavin, Weymouth Honored by the CCC

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Student-athletes from nine different institutions in the Commonwealth Coast Conference were represented on the 2015 All-CCC Softball Team. In addition to the all-conference team, winners of five major individual awards and the team sportsmanship award were also selected.

Salve Regina junior Genevieve Benoit was named CCC Player of the Year, while Western New England senior Lauren Zambrano captured the CCC Pitcher of the Year award. Salve Regina's Francesca Galeazzi and Nichols' Kendall Meehan, Nichols were selected as CCC Rookies of the Year, while Wentworth's Sam Curran (Quincy, Mass.) was honored as CCC Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year. Western New England's Lori Mayhew was honored as CCC Coaches of the Year and Wentworth Institute of Technology was the recipient of the Team Sportsmanship Award.
 
Voting for the All-CCC team and each of the major awards was conducted among CCC head softball coaches.
 
Joining Benoit (C), Zambrano (P) and Curran (UT) on the first team were infielders Heather Fecteau (1B, Western New England), Samantha Mulhern (2B, Western New England), Sam DiBella (3B, Endicott) and Nikki Bukovsky (SS, Salve Regina), oufielders Alexis Bukowski (Western New England), Taylor Messier (Roger Williams) and Amanda Vallante (University of New England) designated player Mikayla Lambert (Curry) and pitcher Courtney Blake (Endicott).
 
Second team honorees include Galeazzi (2B), Meehan (SS), catcher Liz Glavin (Wentworth), infielders Abby Lambert (1B, University of New England) and Ariel LaRosa (3B, Curry), outfielders April Adams (Curry), Adrienne Chase (University of New England) and Jamie Corda (Endicott), designated player Grace Kucharski (Western New England), pitchers Taylor Ahearn (Curry) and Nicole Parry (Salve Regina), and utility player Sydney Helmbrecht (University of New England).
 
Third team honorees are catcher Allie Carver (Curry), infielders Emily Kline (1B, Gordon), Julia McNeill (2B, Endicott), Kelly Murphy (3B, University of New England) and Haley Ledbetter (SS, Roger Williams), outfielders Chelsea Boulrisse (Roger Williams), Kelly Duggan (Curry) , Kara Pepper (Gordon) and Vanessa Weymouth (Wentworth), designated player Margaret Martzolf (Endicott), pitchers Heidi Grieger (Western New England) and Meghan Maliga (Roger Williams), and utility player Meredith Moise (Roger Williams).

Curran, who was named Second Team All-CCC as a junior, earned first team honors this season. She batted .424 (36-for-85) with eight doubles, two triples, two home runs, 10 stolen bases, and 14 RBI while having an on-base percentage of .479 and a slugging percentage of .635. She had a career-high four hits twice this season, including three doubles in a 20-14 win over Bay Path on April 15. Curran also was the winning pitcher in two of the Leopards' four victories this season. For her career Curran started 128 of 128 games and batted .358 (126-for-352) with 98 runs scored, 32 doubles, eight triples, six home runs, 31 stolen bases (in 31 attempts), and 50 RBI. She had a career on-base percentage of .442 and a career slugging percentage of .545. She is second in program history in runs scored, doubles, and triples, third in hits, total bases, walks, and stolen bases, and fourth in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and games played.

As impressive as Curran's numbers were on the diamond, her work in the classroom is equally as impressive. Sporting a near-perfect GPA in Biomedical Engineering, she was a Second Team Capital One Academic All-America last season, and as a four-year starting libero on the women's volleyball team, she earned First Team Academic All-America honors this past fall. A member of Chi Alpha Sigma, the national student-athlete honor society, Curran was the 2014-15 recipient of the Wentworth Bowl, the highest honor a student can receive in recognition of outstanding, overall participation in Wentworth activities and was also the 2015 recipient of the President's Award for Biomedical Engineering.

The 2012 CCC Rookie of the Year and honorable mention selection, Glavin, a native of Ipswich, Mass., earns second team honors for the second straight season after batting .375 (30-for-80) with 11 doubles, one triple, two home runs, 19 runs scored, and 22 RBI to go along with an on-base percentage of .407 and a slugging percentage of .613. She matched a career high with five runs scored in a 20-14 win over Bay Path on April 15 and had a career-high two stolen bases against Gordon on April 10. Glavin started all 120 of the 120 games in which she appeared and batted .407 (135-for-332) with 81 runs scored, 37 doubles, two triples, 19 home runs, and 111 runs batted in while sporting a career on-base percentage of .459 and a slugging percentage of .702. She is the program's all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage, hits, doubles, and RBI, while ranking second in on-base percentage, home runs, and total bases.

A native of Fremont, N.H., Weymouth had an impressive rookie campaign patrolling center field for the Black & Gold. Starting all 26 of the team's games, she batted .346 (28-for-81) with 17 runs scored, two doubles, 10 stolen bases, and 11 runs batted in. She established career highs of four hits, five total bases, and three RBI in a 15-13 loss to Newbury on March 20 and had a career-best four runs scored in a 20-14 win at Bay Path on April 15.

Wentworth wrapped up the season with a 4-22 record.