{"id":121324,"date":"2017-05-10T16:54:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T21:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121324"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T21:57:16","slug":"jimmies-hanna-dunnigan-pitcher-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121324","title":{"rendered":"Jimmies Hanna Dunnigan, Pitcher of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-121325\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DunniganHanna-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DunniganHanna-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DunniganHanna-431x236.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DunniganHanna-862x472.jpg 862w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DunniganHanna-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DunniganHanna-320x175.jpg 320w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DunniganHanna.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MADISON, S.D.<\/strong> \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association announced its final edition of the Softball Players of the Week Tuesday, following the conclusion of the\u00a0NSAA\u00a0Postseason Conference Tournament held in Dickinson, N.D. last weekend.\u00a0 Erin Sharpe of Bellevue (Neb.) was selected to the Player of the Week for the second straight week.\u00a0 <strong>Hanna\u00a0Dunnigan of Jamestown (N.D.) was chosen as the Pitcher of the Week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North Star Athletic Association Softball Player-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Erin Sharpe \u2013 Bellevue (Neb.) \u2013 5&#8217;9&#8243; \u2013 Sophomore \u2013 Third Baseman\/Pitcher \u2013 Bosque Farms, N.M.<\/strong> \u2013 Sharpe was 7-of-14 at the plate for a batting average of .500 as No. 23-ranked Bellevue (Neb.) went 4-2 in the NSAA Conference Tournament, earning runner-up honors.\u00a0 She also recorded a slugging percentage of 1.000 during the tournament after hitting two home runs and a double.\u00a0 Sharpe also reached base by a walk nine times and drove in three runs.\u00a0 In three pitching appearances, she posted an earned run average of 0.00 in 12 2\/3 innings.\u00a0 Sharpe tossed a perfect game in BU&#8217;s 1-0 game 2 victory over Jamestown (N.D.) in the NSAA Softball Championship best-of-three\u00a0series.\u00a0 She only gave up five hits and issued no walks during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>North Star Athletic Association Softball Pitcher-of-the-Week<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink Female WBA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.JimmieAthletics.com\/roster\/17\/11\/5708.php\">Hanna Dunnigan<\/a> \u2013 Jamestown (N.D.) \u2013 5&#8217;11&#8221; \u2013 Senior \u2013 Pitcher \u2013 Regina, Sask. Canada <\/strong>\u2013 Dunnigan was stellar in pitching circle, helping lead Jamestown (N.D.) to their first-ever North Star Softball Postseason Tournament Championship, as the Jimmies\u00a0finished the tournament with a 5-1 record.\u00a0In the winner-take-all championship game, she struck out a tournament-high 14 batters to defeat top-seeded Bellevue (Neb.) 2-1 and\u00a0earn an automatic bid to the NAIA National Tournament.\u00a0 Dunnigan posted an earned run average of 1.48 in six pitching appearances, holding her opponents to a .157 batting average\u00a0and led the tournament with 36 strikeouts.\u00a0She allowed 16 hits in 28 1\/3 innings of work.\u00a0Dunnigan also recorded four wins in the postseason tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON, S.D. \u2013 The North Star Athletic Association announced its final edition of the Softball Players of the Week Tuesday, following the conclusion of the\u00a0NSAA\u00a0Postseason Conference Tournament held in Dickinson, N.D. last weekend.\u00a0 Erin Sharpe of Bellevue (Neb.) was selected to the Player of the Week for the second straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121327,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121324\/revisions\/121327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}