FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
S-106-05-06
Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Elizabethtown College Junior Outfielder Kelli Thon Named to All-East Region First Team in Softball

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College junior center fielder Kelli Thon (Victor, NY/Victor Central) has been named to the National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association (NFCA) All-East Region First Team for the 2006 season. It is the first time in her career that she has received the honor.

This season, Thon started all 33 of Elizabethtown’s games and led the Blue Jays in batting average (.420), hits (47), at-bats (112), runs scored (14), on-base percentage (.435), slugging percentage (.420) and stolen bases (16). She also drove in seven runs and struck out only four times in 112 at-bats, and she committed just one error all season for a .981 fielding percentage. Her total of 47 hits this season was the third-highest in Elizabethtown history, and her 16 steals marked the sixth-highest Etown single-season total.

Through three seasons, Thon has a career batting average of .434 through 88 games, the highest career average in the history of the program. She ranks third all-time at Elizabethtown in career hits with 132 and fifth in career stolen bases with 36. As a sophomore in 2005, she had a .519 batting average, the highest in Etown history since the Blue Jays’ inaugural eight-game season of 1979. Thon was named to the All-Commonwealth Conference First Team in 2005, and she was an All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team honoree as a first-year student in 2004.