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S-135-06-07
Friday, May 11, 2007

Elizabethtown College Senior Kelli Thon Named to NFCA All-East Region Second Team 

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College senior center fielder Kelli Thon (Victor, NY/Victor Central) has been named to the National Fastpitch Coaches’ Association (NFCA) All-East Region Second Team for the 2007 season. It is the second year in a row she has earned all-region honors, making her just the third Blue Jay softball player ever to achieve back-to-back all-region recognition.

Thon closed out her career having earned All-Commonwealth Conference recognition in all four seasons and a place on the first team in each of the last three. She was also an NFCA All-East Region First Team honoree in 2006. This season, she batted .353 with 42 hits, 28 runs scored, five runs batted in and 14 stolen bases, and she led the team in batting average, at-bats (119), runs, hits and stolen bases.

In her career, Thon compiled a .411 batting average with 174 hits, 77 runs scored, 27 runs batted in, a .435 on-base percentage and 50 stolen bases. She is Elizabethtown’s all-time career hit record holder, and she ranks third all-time at Etown in career batting average, fourth in runs scored, and second in career stolen bases. Her .519 batting average in 2005 was the program’s highest single-season average since the team’s inaugural season of 1979, which consisted of just eight games.

The Elizabethtown College softball team went 16-17 overall and 8-6 in the conference in 2007, an improvement of eight wins over last year and the Blue Jays’ highest win total since 2003. Etown also made its return to the Commonwealth Conference playoffs this year for the first time since 2003.