March 11, 2003
Fresno State Press Release

Bulldogs' Southern Named WAC Pitcher of the Week
Fresno State's Jamie Southern garners first award of season as Bulldogs pick up back-to-back accolades

FRESNO, CA.- Fresno State softball's sophomore All-America right-handed pitcher Jamie Southern (Clovis, Calif.) picked up her first Western Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week honors on the year late Monday evening and now has eight career WAC Pitcher of the Week accolades.

For the second straight week Fresno State had the league's pitcher of the week as freshman right-hander Laura Ferreira (El Sobrante, Calif.) was honored on March 3.

Last week, Southern went 2-1 with victories over BYU and Cal Poly and a loss to No. 1 UCLA. Amassing 512 career strikeouts, she surpassed Bulldog All-America standout Melanie Parrent to move into seventh place all-time at Fresno State. Southern became the quickest Bulldog hurler to tally 500-career strikeouts as it took just 64 appearances.

Against BYU, she tossed a four-hitter, walked one and struck out 11 for her sixth 10-strikeout game of the season.

Against Cal Poly, Southern recorded a win in relief as she allowed one hit and one walk while striking out seven in 5.1 innings to improve to 4-5 on the year. In addition, the seven strikeouts recorded made Southern just the eighth Bulldog pitcher and the sixth WAC pitcher to collect 500-career strikeouts.

Against No. 1 UCLA, Southern pitched four innings and gave up four runs (one earned) on four hits, walked one and struck out eight. The earned run given up to UCLA in the first inning spanned 31.2 innings of play since she last allowed an earned run on Feb. 14 to Central Florida.

With 94 strikeouts in 66.1 innings of work and six ten-strikeout games on the season, Southern is averaging 9.95 strikeouts on the year. In her last 35.1 innings of work, Southern has yielded just two earned runs, seven walks and has struck out 56 (11.17 strikeouts/7 IP) for a 0.40 ERA.

In 430.0 career innings pitched, she is averaging 8.33 strikeouts per seven innings and has given up 28 career earned runs for a 0.46 career ERA and is 39-16 in her Bulldog career.