Former Becker Bulldog and current Cornell Ram Haley Harmon (freshman) was nominated this week to be the D3 softball Hero of the Week.

 

Harmon set a school record by striking out 19 batters in a game last week against Knox College. Cornell won the game, 5-0.

 

Harmon (4-3) mowed down the Knox lineup in her two-hit, game one masterpiece (Cornell played a doubleheader that day). The hard-throwing righty struck out the side in the final four innings and at one point fanned eight batters in a row.

 

Knox only hit two fair balls out of the infield against Harmon, who dealt 13 swinging strikeouts. She surrendered a soft single to left field to lead off the fifth, and a two-out single down the left-field line in the seventh.

 

Harmon walked one and also hit one batter. She faced five batters over the minimum for seven innings. 

 

In game two, Harmon bailed the Rams out of early trouble and wound up the winning pitcher in relief. 

 

With Cornell trailing 4-3, Harmon came on with the bases loaded in the second and induced an inning-ending strikeout.

 

Harmon yielded just one hit over 3.1 innings. She struck out six and walked none.

 

In the Hero of the Week voting, Harmon is currently in fourth place out of five athletes. She is up against  Anna Brittingham of Salisbury, who tossed her first career perfect game against So. Virginia; Abby Monroe of Utica, who had a career-high 13 strikeouts in a 2-0 win over St. John Fisher; Rachel Quackenbush of MCLA, who hurled a five inning no-hitter last week against Southern Vermont and Liz Warren of Keuka, who tossed a five inning no-hitter against SUNY Cobleskill.