BIDDEFORD, Maine – Jenny Jacob of the Suffolk softball team has been awarded Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Pitcher of the Week after her standout Spring Training March 14-20, the league office unveiled Monday afternoon.
Jacob put together a 0.77 ERA over 11.2 innings with 18 strikeouts in the circle. At the plate, she hit .400 with two hits in her five plate appearances to go along with one run scored.
The junior opened the week with a crucial save in an extra-inning victory over Albertus Magnus. The right-handed twirler took over for Kennedy Reyes in the circle in the bottom of the eighth with the blue-and-gold in front, 8-7, and a runner on second base. She gained composure after a wild pitch and sat down the rest of the Falcons in order to preserve the victory.
One game later against Stevenson, Jacob came out of the pen. In 3.2 frames of relief, she limited the Mustangs to just one run on five hits and one walk with four strikeouts.
A native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, saved the best for last as she fired a one-hit, one-walk gem against SUNY Poly to put an exclamation point on Suffolk's time at the Fastpitch Dreams Spring Classic in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Her dominate evening was perfect through 4.2 innings with just one base runner allowed on a walk in the top of the fifth and the no-hitter eliminated by a shallow, infield base knock in the sixth. She needed just 79 pitches for the complete-game effort, 63 of which were strikes. Of the 22 batters she faced, she sat down 13, the most punchouts by a blue-and-gold pitcher since Sarah Chasse fanned 14 in a 3-1 win at Norwich April 15, 2012.
Jacob is the first Suffolk player to be named the conference's best pitcher over a seven-day stretch since Reyes picked up the same honor March 29, 2021. The weekly accolade is the first for Jacob's in her Suffolk career and is the first in the Janet Maguire era.
Jacob and the Rams are back in action this weekend when it lifts the lid on its New England schedule at Emerson Friday, March 25, before serving as host for the first time in 2022 the following day, Saturday, March 26 against Simmons. Both outings will be twinbills. First pitch against the Lions is scheduled for 3 p.m., while Suffolk and the Sharks are set for a 12 p.m. game one at East Boston Memorial Park.