ALL-NJAC RELEASE
PITMAN, NJ (www.NJCUGothicKnights.com)...New Jersey City University freshman third baseman REBECCA SATZ (Morris Plains, NJ/Morristown) has been voted as the 2010 New Jersey Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year and selected First-Team All-NJAC at third base in voting by the league's 10 head coaches announced on May 6. Satz, a two-time NJAC Rookie Hitter of the Week, is the first player in NJCU history to be named the league's Rookie of the Year.
“She was well deserving of this honor,” said seventh-year head coach BRIDGETTE QUIMPO. “She was one of the best hitters in our conference in her first year. It was fun to watch her as a hitter, in games and practice, because every day she came in to work hard. She came through in clutch situations for us.”
Satz—the only freshmen represented on any of the three All-NJAC Teams (First, Second or
Rebecca Satz, the lone freshman on the First, Second or Honorable Mention All-NJAC teams, leads the league in total hits and is second in average.
Honorable Mention)—is the first Gothic Knight to earn First-Team All-NJAC honors since Jen Barletta earned First-Team at-large distinction in 2001.
“Our league is the toughest in the country and while playing a really demanding position—particularly as a freshman—she stepped up both defensively and offensively to prove she is the best third baseman in out conference,” Quimpo noted. “I can't be any happier for someone on this team.”
In 40 games (40 starts) for NJCU (14-26), Satz batted a team-best .394 with 50 hits in 127 at bats while hitting in the No. 3 spot in the lineup for 36 of the 40 contests (four games at No. 2). She notched 31 RBIs and 23 runs with 67 total bases—12 doubles, one triple and one homerun—adding three walks and one hit by pitch for a .409 on-base percentage and .528 slugging rate. Satz struck out only eight times in 132 total plate appearances or just once every 16.5 trips to the plate.
Satz, who did not ground into a double play, was 4-for-4 in steals. She collected 16 multiple hit games and eight multi-RBI contests and strung together a team season's-best eight-game hitting streak. She hit safely in 30 of 40 games and reached base in 32 contests.
Defensively, she was remarkably dependable with a .964 fielding percentage while guarding the hot corner, where she had 42 putouts and 91 assists and committed only five errors in 138 chances.
Naturally, Satz led NJCU in virtually every offensive category—average, hits, at bats, RBIs, doubles, triples, total bases, and slugging percentage. She was second on the team in runs, homers and on-base percentage.
While leading NJCU to its best six-game start to a season in the 30-year history of the program (5-1) and a 14-14 ledger after 28 games, she set the stage for a historical statistical campaign. Satz was one of only six players in program history to compile 50 hits in a season. Additionally, she ranks in the Top 10 in four categories on the single-season charts—fifth in at bats, sixth in doubles, eighth in RBIs and ninth in total bases.
Satz was named NJAC Rookie Hitter of the Week in consecutive weeks on April 19 and 26.
Through May 5, Satz led the NJAC in total hits and ranked second in batting average—one percentage point behind the leader—and could still end the year as the league leader in that category. She was named NJAC Rookie Hitter of the Week in consecutive weeks on April 19 and 26.
Among the NJAC statistical leaders, Satz ranks second in average versus right-handers (.390), third in RBIs, average with runners on base (.417) and percentage advancing runners (.662), fourth in doubles, assists and percentage reaching as a leadoff batter (.545), fifth in at bats and average with runners in scoring position (.418), seventh in total bases, 10th in average with the bases loaded (.750), 11th in groundout/fly out ratio (1.70), and 12th in slugging.
Over the 18-game grueling NJAC schedule, she was 16th in batting average at .340 (18-53) with eight RBIs. She was also among the Top 10 leaders in several categories, including tied for sixth in doubles (6), seventh in assists (40), and ninth in average versus left-handers (.500), while listing 11th in percentage advancing runners (.567).
Satz, who was projected by Quimpo in the preseason to have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, certainly lived up to the great promise her head coach envisioned.
“I've been saying all along she has a very big future here and I'm excited to see what kind of player she's going to grow into. She has grown up as a player, person and as a student in such a short period of time.”
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