BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Senior Lindsey Randall has been named the Gulf South Conference West Division Player of the Week, while freshman teammate Kayla Jackson was named Pitcher of the Week.
 
In this past weekend’s Bentonville Softball Classic, Randall led the Blossoms with an impressive .700  batting average after going 14-for-20 at the plate over five games. She hit three doubles, three homeruns and drove in seven runs for a slugging percentage of 1.300. She also recorded three stolen bases in as many attempts.
 
Randall started the classic going 4-for-4 with two homeruns in the team’s 9-1 win over East Central Oklahoma on Friday. On Sunday, she recorded another 4-for-4 game against Missouri Southern, including her third homerun of the weekend.
 
Jackson is off to an excellent freshman season, recording nine consecutive complete-game wins. More impressively, she has only allowed six earned runs in 55 innings.
 
This past weekend, she recorded three wins with a 0.74 ERA in 19 innings of work. She only allowed two earned runs and struck out 15 batters. In the first game against Missouri Southern on Sunday, Jackson threw a complete-game one hitter in route to the team’s 8-0 win in six innings. In that win, she struck out six batters, while only allowing MSSU to reach scoring position twice.