BOSTON – In the most popular Ram of the Week Twitter Poll to date, with over 560 votes cast, the results came down to the wire.

AND THE WINNER IS …

Shane Lake of Suffolk baseball edged out softball's Ally Cifaratta for Ram of the Week honors for March 15-21.

With the votes deadlocked at 46 percent apiece, Lake picked up a two more clicks in the last minute to take home the title. 

Ram of the Week is presented every Monday to one Suffolk Athletics student-athlete from competing teams for their performance over a seven-day stretch. Ram Nation decides the victor through a Twitter Poll. 

Lake garnered 260 of the 561 votes cast for his standout effort at bat in baseball's 3-1 opening weekend against the Lasers. The .571/.571/.715 slug-line showing came after 687 days away from the diamond. The West Roxbury, Massachusetts native not only missed last season when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, but was out previously due to injury. He finished with four hits, including one double, with five RBI and one run scored in two games played. Defensively, the backstop caught one running stealing and kept his fielding percentage perfect in 17 chances. 

In the season opener, Lake went 2-for-3 at the dish with one RBI and improved two games later with a 2-for-4 effort that included a double with a personal-best four RBI and one run scored.

#RamNation you have until midmorning tomorrow to cast your vote

— Suffolk Athletics (@gosuffolkrams) March 22, 2021

RAM RUNNER-UPS 

2ND PLACE – 46% - ALLY CIFARATTA – SOFTBALL
6 GP – 11-22 – 6 XBH - .500/.522/.81 – 6 RBI – 5 RUNS 

Ally Cifaratta started her sophomore season with a hot bat. The infielder has put together multi-hit games in all, but two of Suffolk's six outings. Six of her 11 hits were good for extra bases including her first collegiate homer, which came in the season debut, and a pair of outings with two doubles. She has brought in six runs, highlighted by a personal-best five RBI outing, and has scored five times herself.

3RD PLACE – 7% - MADDY BURTON – WOMEN'S HOCKEY
2 GP – 2 GOALS (1 SHORTHANDED) – 5-GAME POINT STREAK 

Maddy Burton wrapped up the abbreviated 2020-21 women's hockey season with a three-point effort in a home-and-home series with Endicott. In Beverly, Massachusetts, she found the twine twice, once with a shorthanded strike, before assisting on the only goal against the Gulls in Eastie the following day. The senior forward stretched her point streak to five thanks to contributing at least one point in both battles with Endicott.

er from Tampa, Florida, provided 19 points and seven rebounds to average 26.5 ppg on a 45.7 connection rate from the floor with 7.5 rpg.

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