March 5, 2007

CEDAR RAPIDS , IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today that Wartburg College softball player Ashley Rogers (Dubuque, Iowa/Wahlert) and Wartburg baseball player Jake Shandri (Urbandale, Iowa/Urbandale) have been named the IIAC Female and Male Athletes of the Week for the period ending Sunday, March 4. The Conference also announced the Performers of the Week for each of the Conference’s three sports in competition during the week.

Softball – Ashley Rogers, Wartburg College, Dubuque, Iowa/Wahlert
Rogers, a junior first baseman, hit .833 (5-for-6) with a home run, four RBI and four runs scored in two games. In Wartburg’s season opening win over St. Benedict (10-1 5-innings), she went 2-for-3, scored twice and drove in one. In the second game of the day, an 8-3 win over Aquinas, she went 3-for-3 with a 3-run home run, a walk and two runs scored. Trailing 3-1 at the time, her home run sparked a five-run fourth-inning rally for the Knights.

Baseball – Jake Shandri, Wartburg College, Urbandale, Iowa/Urbandale
Shandri, a senior first baseman, hit .643 (9-for-14) with six doubles, seven RBI, five runs scored and a 1.071 slugging percentage in Wartburg’s first four games of the season. He went 3-for-7 in a doubleheader sweep of St. Mary’s (Minn.) including 3-for-5 with four RBI and two runs scored in the opener, a 16-1 Wartburg win. In a doubleheader sweep of Wabash, he went 6-for-7 with five doubles, three RBI and three runs scored. In the opener (10-2), he was 1-for-2 with an RBI and run scored. In the nightcap, he went 5-for-5 with four doubles, two RBI and two runs scored.

Men’s Tennis – Jared Feddersen, Central College, Fort Dodge, Iowa/Fort Dodge
Feddersen, a junior, went 4-0 during the week with a pair of wins at #1 singles and #1 doubles against Conference opponents. Feddersen defeated Simpson’s Matt Johnson (6-4, 6-1) and Wartburg’s Mitch Eslick (6-3, 6-3) in singles play. In doubles, he partnered with Luke Boyd to post an 8-5 win over Johnson/Tim Claussen and a 9-8 win over Eslick/Tom Koenen.

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