Sarah Salamone (SR) Cortland

SOFTBALL PITCHER OF THE WEEK

(Liverpool, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse)
Salamone was 3-0 with a 0.62 ERA in three appearances, two as a starter, as Cortland clinched the SUNYAC regular-season title. She opened the week by allowing only two hits and one walk in five scoreless innings in a 5-1 home win over New Paltz. She gave up six hits and one unearned run and fanned two in a 17-2 win at Potsdam, then earned a win in relief with one and a third scoreless innings in a 3-1 win at Plattsburgh. In the Plattsburgh game, Salamone entered with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, the score tied a 1-1 and runners on first and third and got a fielder's choice force out to send the game to extra innings. Cortland scored twice in the eighth and Salamone retired the side in order for the win.