MAC Freedom Player of the Week
Samantha Bloom (King’s / Jr., INF-P / Scranton, Pa.) led the Monarchs to a 6-0 week in Myrtle Beach with a .533 (8-for-15) batting average, a .933 slugging percentage with two triples, two doubles, five RBIs, three runs scored and three walks. Bloom’s best performance came in a 10-2 win over Regis where she went 3-for-3 with a triple, three RBIs and a run scored. Her biggest hit of the week came in a 2-1 walk-off victory over Chatham where she blasted the ball off the right-field fence in the bottom of the seventh to score the game-winning run with an RBI double. Bloom hit in all five games she played in. She also pitched two complete-game victories against Regis and Chatham.