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(PlayNorthStar.com) \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its eighth edition of the softball Players-of-the-Week Monday.\u00a0 Lauren Jurek of Bellevue (Neb.) was selected as the Pitcher-of-the-Week.\u00a0 Marissa Hawkins of Valley city State (N.D.) was named as the Player-of-the-Week.<\/p>\n
North Star<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong> North Star Athletic Association Softball Player-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong> (PlayNorthStar.com) \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) announced its eighth edition of the softball Players-of-the-Week Monday.\u00a0 Lauren Jurek of Bellevue (Neb.) was selected as the Pitcher-of-the-Week.\u00a0 Marissa Hawkins of Valley city State (N.D.) was named as the Player-of-the-Week. North Star\u00a0Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week Lauren Jurek \u2013 Bellevue (Neb.) \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246534,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246532\/revisions\/246534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLauren Jurek \u2013 Bellevue (Neb.) \u2013 Junior \u2013 pitcher \u2013 Bellevue, Neb.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Jurek tossed a four-hit complete game shutout in Bellevue (Neb.) 7-0 victory over Dickinson State (N.D.), propelling to a 3-1 record in the four-game series.\u00a0 She recorded four strikeouts and only issued one walk in the game.\u00a0 Offensively, Jurek tallied two doubles and drove in three runs during the four-game series.<\/p>\n
\nMarissa Hawkins \u2013 Valley City State (N.D.) \u2013 Senior \u2013 infielder \u2013 St. Paul, Minn.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Hawkins was near perfect at the plate as Valley City State (N.D.) went 4-0 record in North Star Athletic Association home four-game series versus Viterbo (Wis.).\u00a0 She registered an astounding .917 batting average after going 11-of-12 at the plate.\u00a0 She smashed four home runs and collected 11 RBIs. in the series.\u00a0 Hawks registered a slugging percentage of 2.083 (4 home runs, 2 doubles, 5 singles).\u00a0 She totaled 25 bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"