ECC's Lewis, Mt. SAC's Wheeler Repeat All-SCC Softball Top Player, Pitcher Honors
The 2019 All-South Coast Conference Softball Teams were selected today at Rio Hondo College and it featured a repeat performance for El Camino sophomore third baseman Diamond Lewis and Mt. San Antonio letterman pitcher Briana Wheeler. Lewis picked up a second consecutive SCC South Division Player of the Year award while Wheeler was chosen SCC North Division Pitcher of the Year also for a second straight season.
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Lewis (photo below) led El Camino to its third straight SCC South title under Coach of the Year Jessica Rapoza. The Warriors (34-4 overall) finished the regular season on an 18-game winning streak and went 20-2 to win the division crown by 10 full games in the standings. Lewis led the SCC in both on-base percentage (.559) and slugging percentage (.765) and batted .443 with 33 stolen bases. ECC swept the division top awards as Jocelyn Hernandez was selected the SCC South Pitcher of the Year with a 15-1 record and 1.41 ERA. El Camino has now five conference titles in its SCC history, four have come since 2015 (1989 was the other).
Lewis is the first repeat SCC Player of the Year since Celina Felix of Mt. San Antonio in 2014-15.
Mt. SAC (36-4 overall) also took home all three top awards after going a perfect 22-0 to win the program's fourth consecutive SCC title (third North Division) and 12th in Mounties' South Coast history--all since 2003. All four consecutive titles came under Ruby Rojas, who collected her fourth straight SCC Coach of the Year honor. It was also the second time that Rojas coached the Mounties to a perfect conference season of 20 wins or more (21-0 as a single 8-team conference in 2013). Wheeler (photo below) led a number of SCC pitching categories as she has a 21-1 overall record, a microscopic 0.78 ERA and 186 strikeouts in 134-1/3 innings of work.
The SCC North Player of the Year went to Mt. SAC centerfielder Ally Longtree, a sophomore transfer, who batted .427 with five home runs, five triples, 31 RBI and 22 stolen bases while fielding her position flawlessly in the regular season.
Wheeler is the second straight Mounties' pitcher to win SCC Pitcher of the Year twice as she was preceded by Tiffany Kennedy-Cummings in 2016-17.
