BURNABY, British Columbia — Brittanee Fisher can smash a softball.
The previous Billings Senior slugger has rocketed so many softballs out of the park, that she is now the Montana State Billings profession residence run chief with 41.
On Sunday on the ultimate day of the season towards Simon Fraser, the fifth-year senior linked with a pitch within the high of the fifth inning within the first recreation of a twin invoice to set the report. With the dinger, her tenth of the season, she additionally moved into second place within the Nice Northwest Athletic Convention report ebook for profession residence runs.
With a swing of the bat, the right-handed hitting Fisher despatched the softball crusing over the fence for a solo residence run. As she trotted towards first base, she twirled her bat right down to the bottom with a thud and began her historic residence run trot — one she has performed so many instances earlier than.
The distinction — this time across the bases her Yellowjackets teammates emptied out of the dugout, leaping and cheering and assembly the college’s new all-time residence run champion at residence plate and chanting, “41, 41, 41!”
“I feel everybody watching the sport knew that ball was gone as quickly because it hit the bat,” Fisher, who batted 2 for 3 with two runs and two RBIs within the first recreation, stated in an MSUB press launch. “It felt superior to have a no-doubter after hitting a variety of wall-scrapers this 12 months. I simply felt so relieved that I used to be capable of pull via with the principle aim I had for the season.”
With the round-tripper, Fisher had damaged former teammate Cameron Cassinelli’s profession report of 40 residence runs, set from 2015-18. Fisher and Cassinelli, a primary baseman and left-handed pitcher from San Tan Valley, Arizona, had been teammates throughout the 2018 season.
Fisher’s homer over the fence in left middle discipline gave the Yellowjackets a three-run lead en path to an 8-5 GNAC victory over Simon Fraser.
Fisher, who’s a primary baseman and wears No. 24, had tied the profession residence run report on Saturday in a 4-1 loss to Simon Fraser within the first recreation of a doubleheader.
Fisher’s homer on Saturday was her first in 14 video games. Getting into the four-game weekend collection, Fisher was batting. 327 (34 for 104) with 22 RBIs, 19 runs and a slugging proportion of .615.
In line with the MSUB press launch, surpassing Cassinelli’s staff residence run report was a aim of Fisher’s and the slugger admitted there was some stress with the report inside attain. Nevertheless, Fisher was impressed when remembering what her former teammate had advised her again in 2018.
“The primary factor that saved me motivated had been a few of Cam’s final phrases to me on the finish of my freshman season,” Fisher stated within the launch. “After she broke the report, she advised me I used to be subsequent. I knew that I needed to show her proper.”
The Yellowjackets would lose the second contest, 2-1, when Simon Fraser (17-19, 8-12) scored a run within the backside of the eighth inning.
MSUB finishes the 12 months 13-34 general and 6-18 within the league.
The GNAC congratulated Fisher in a tweet after her residence run and acknowledged homer No. 41 moved her into second place on the league’s all-time checklist for homers. Jessica Hallmark of Western Oregon hit 45 residence runs from 2008-11 and Emily Benson of Western Washington had 45 (2015-17, 2019).
Fisher, who hit 11 residence runs as a senior for the Broncs and was honored with Senior’s “Thumper Award” because the staff’s finest hitter as a junior, obtained the feminine Midland Roundtable Athlete of the 12 months award in 2017.
She homered 11 instances as a freshman for MSUB throughout the 2018 marketing campaign. As a sophomore, Fisher hit six residence runs and he or she had three throughout the 2020 season that was shortened attributable to COVID-19. Final 12 months, Fisher struck for 11 homers.
“This has been the most effective 5 years of my life this far, and I wouldn’t change them for the world,” Fisher stated within the MSUB launch. “Between all of the teammates I’ve needed to the coaches I’ve performed for, it’s been superb to study all that I’ve and develop into who I’m in the present day. The primary factor I’d take away from my time right here is to get pleasure from all the pieces as a result of it goes by so quick, and when it’s over, there are not any do-overs. Softball has turned me into a pacesetter, an advocate, and an general higher individual, and the voice and braveness that it has given me is past something I’d have skilled by not enjoying. I’m so grateful for all the pieces this program has given me and I’ll carry it with me for the remainder of my life.”
NOTES: General, MSUB hit three residence runs within the 8-5 Recreation 1 win. Maycen O’Neal, Marin Penney and Fisher all hit the homers. Penney hit a three-run homer within the high of the third because the Jackets scored 5 runs within the body. … O’Neal hit a two-run homer within the seventh. … General, MSUB had 11 hits within the recreation with Skyler Jenkins, O’Neal, and Fisher all amassing two hits. … Alyssa Etheridge pitched the whole recreation for the Jackets within the second contest, permitting 5 hits and two runs (one earned). She walked 4 and fanned six. MSUB was held to 4 hits within the contest with Shelby Marquardt going 1 for two with an RBI. … After the primary two Simon Fraser batters singled within the backside of the eighth in Recreation 2, the third batter reached on a fielding error and the successful run scored in SFU’s 2-1 victory.