Finished abbreviated season with a 10-12 overall record and a 5-5 mark in Great Northwest Athletic Conference play…season was halted and eventually cancelled following a doubleheader on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic…after starting the season 0-4, finished winning 10 of last 18 games, including 4-2 over final six games…head coach
Sheryl Gilmore led the Vikings in her second season at the helm of the program…went 5-3 at Viking Field and 5-9 on the road (1-4 away, 4-5 neutral)…hosted the University of British Columbia in a doubleheader at Viking Field on February 14 for the earliest home games in program history…had three GNAC Player of the Week selections, including a pair of Pitcher of the Week honors for junior
Anna Kasner…no GNAC All-Conference team was selected due to the shortened season…had program-record 10 players selected to the GNAC All-Academic team, including three-time selection
Kylisa Hull, the seven player in program history to earn that honor three times in a career…senior
Paityn Cyr finished her career with 17 home runs, 6
th-most in program history and 9
th with 85 RBI and 40 extra-base hits…junior
Chantelle Shimabukuro was 2
nd on the team batting .352 and ranked tied for 7
th in the GNAC with 25 hits…junior
Lauren Lo recorded a 13-game hitting streak for the longest in the GNAC during the season.
LEADING GNAC PITCHING STAFF
The Vikings dominated in the circle in 2020, registering a league-best 2.59 ERA, allowing 54 earned runs in 146.0 innings pitched…next closest team ERA was Concordia with a 3.94 mark…also led the GNAC with a152 strikeouts, with Central Washington second-best with 94…set program record averaging 7.29 strikeouts per 7.0 IP…
Anna Kasner (1.92) and
Kira Doan (2.17) finished 1-2 in the GNAC in ERA…Kasner and Doan recorded a pair of 1-hit shutouts in a doubleheader sweep over Northwest Nazarene at Viking Field on March 7 (4-0 & 6-0 wins).
KASNER TWIRLS NO-HITTER
Junior pitcher
Anna Kasner recorded the 10
th no-hitter in program history in a 10-0 5-inning game on Feb. 2 vs. Cal State East Bay at the season-opening Concordia Kickoff Classic…was the 24
th individual no-hitter in GNAC history…Kasner finished the season going 8-4 with a league-leading 1.92 ERA…paced the GNAC with 108 strikeouts for an average of 9.00 K/7.0 IP…ended 2020 with 398 career strikeouts, 3
rd-most in WWU and 11
th in GNAC history…notched three games with 10-or-more strikeouts, including career-high 15 strikeouts Feb. 6 vs. Fort Lewis College…has 12 career double-digit strikeout performances.
BROOKS HITS FOR THE CYCLE
Junior first baseman
Dakota Brooks hit for the cycle in a 9-8 loss to MSU Denver on Feb. 7…Brooks went 4-for-5 in the game, hitting a home run in the 3
rd inning, single in the 4
th, triple in the 6
th and completed the rare statistical achievement in the 7
th…was the second cycle in program history joining
Emily Benson on March 2, 2019…in her first season with WWU Brooks hit a team-best .364 (24-for-66) with 4 doubles, 2 triples, 4 home runs and 10 RBI…ranked in the top 10 in the GNAC in hits (T-9
th), home runs (T-6
th), triples (T-2
nd), total bases (44, 7
th), walks (11, T-5
th), on-base percentage (.455, 4
th), slugging percentage (.667, 2
nd) and batting average (9
th).
GNAC All-Conference:
No awards for 2020
NFCA & D2CCA All-West Region:
No awards for 2020
GNAC All-Academic:
Rachel Christensen, So. (3.24, Physical & Health Education)
Kira Doan**, Jr. (3.42, Cell & Molecular Biology)
Erica Hardy**, Jr. (3.38, Business Management)
Tamia Hirano, Sr. (3.22, Multidisciplinary Studies)
Kylisa Hull***, Sr. (3.67, Mathematics)
Anna Kasner**, Jr. (3.21, Public Relations)
Lauren Lo**, Jr. (3.79, Accounting)
Mackenzie Palmer**, Jr. (3.85, Supply Chain Management.)
Sierra Tibbetts**, Jr. (3.47, Communication Sciences)
Rylie Wales**, Jr. (3.53, Kinesiology)
GNAC Player of the Week:
Feb. 3-9:
Anna Kasner (pitcher)
Mar. 2-8:
Tatum Dow (offense)
Anna Kasner (pitcher)