{"id":224390,"date":"2021-04-27T14:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224390"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:57:47","slug":"kassi-ward-kat-miska-weekly-gpac-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224390","title":{"rendered":"Kassi Ward, Kat Miska weekly GPAC Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"SIOUX CITY, Iowa (UJ)<\/a>\u2013 The University of Jamestown swept weekly honors again as Kassi Ward (JR\/Olympia, Wash.) was named GPAC Player of the Week and Kat Miska (JR\/Pequot Lakes, Minn.) was named GPAC Pitcher of the Week. The two student-athletes were selected for their performances from April 19-25 by a vote of conference sports information directors.<\/p>\n

Ward had a big week at the plate as the Jimmies went 4-2 in GPAC play. She hit safely in all six games with multiple hits in four of those games. In UJ\u2019s 11-6 win at Hastings (Neb.), Ward was 3-for-4 with a double, home run and three RBI. Ward continued her hot streak in game two against the Broncos, finishing 4-for-4 with two homers, a double, three runs scored, and five RBI. For the week, Ward hit .636 (14-for-22), with two doubles, three home runs, and 12 RBI, with a slugging percentage of 1.136 and an on-base percentage of .667.<\/p>\n

Miska won her fourth Pitcher of the Week award as she was a perfect 3-0 in three appearances for UJ last week. She held (RV) Concordia (Neb.) to one run on three hits over seven innings in a 3-1 win, then struck out 17 in seven innings in a 7-3 win at Doane (Neb.) Miska finished the week with six shutout innings at Hastings (Neb.), striking out 12 without issuing a walk in an 11-6 win. For the week, she had a 1.40 earned run average in 20 innings, striking out 36 and held opposing batters to a .171 average.<\/p>\n

The Jimmies conclude the regular season with a pair of home doubleheaders this week, hosting Dakota Wesleyan (S.D.) on Tuesday and Morningside (Iowa) College on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (UJ)\u2013 The University of Jamestown swept weekly honors again as Kassi Ward (JR\/Olympia, Wash.) was named GPAC Player of the Week and Kat Miska (JR\/Pequot Lakes, Minn.) was named GPAC Pitcher of the Week. The two student-athletes were selected for their performances from April 19-25 by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224390","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\/224390","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=224390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224392,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224390\/revisions\/224392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}