Lots of local athletes receive all-league honors; Wear is player of the year

http://blogs.mcall.com/groller/ FROM KEITH GROLLER My inbox overfloweth with good news for area athletes who have received all-league accolades for the just completed regular seasons in their respective leagues. Among them: In softball, Misericordia freshman Kristi Seiler (Northern Lehigh) was named first-team all-Freedom Conference all-star and named the rookie of the year. Seiler led the team in RBIs (37) and doubles (14) and was second in batting (.400), slugging (.633), on-base percentage (.447), hits (48), home runs (4) and total bases (76). Delaware Valley College sophomore shortstop Jackie Wear (Northwestern Lehigh) was named the Freedom Conference Player of the Year. Wear is among the league leaders in batting average (.496), hits (57), doubles (18), total bases (101), steals (2), home runs (eight), runs scored (38). DeSales senior outfielder Brianna Chilcoat (Northampton) was named to the all-Freedom Conference first team and DeSales junior third baseman Julie Brugger (Liberty) was named to the second team. Chilcoat. Chilcoat batted .322 with a team-high 31 runs scored and 15 steals. Brugger batted .358 with 13 doubles and team-highs in home runs (5) and RBIs (30). Brugger only struck out nine times in 129 plate appearances and had a .922 fielding percentage with just eight errors at the hot corner. Gettysburg senior catcher Adrienne Rahs (Saucon Valley) was named Centennial Conference player of the week. She hit .500 (6-for-12) with six runs scored, two doubles, three home runs, and seven RBIs. In baseball, Penn State Berks has won the North Eastern Athletic Conference West Division title with major contrbutnios from junior Matt Emrick (Freedom), freshman Christian Marcin (Palmerton) and senior Kevin Heilman (Easton). Emrick was named the NEAC's pitcher of the year and a first-team all-star, while second baseman Heilman was a second-team selection. Emrick has won all three of his conference starts, allowing only two earned runs in 21.0 innings. He tossed complete-game shutouts in two of those starts. Emrick recorded seven strikeouts in those three starts and held the opposition to a .139 batting average. Heiman is batting .361 with 26 hits, two doubles, one home run, 11 RBIs and 12 runs scored. He has been nearly flawless at second base, committing just two errors for a .937 fielding percentage.