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2009 Softball

23 Bailey Vertovez

  • Bats/Throw R/R
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown West Islip, N.Y.
  • High School West Islip
  • Position Utility
  • House Winthrop

Biography

Senior • 2009
Team captain ... Enters the season sixth in the Harvard record bookwith 5.60 strikeouts per game, seventh in career sacrifice hitswith 20 and tied for seventh in career batting average against witha .273 mark.

Junior • 2008
Named the Ivy League Player of the Week March 25 after going 7 for19 at the plate with three runs, four RBI and one double in sixgames ... Started 38 games at shortstop and nine on the mound ...Led the team with 13 sacrifice bunts and 103 assists in the field,the former good for a tie for third and the latter good for a tiefor fifth in the Crimson’s all-time single-season record book... Batted .266 with 17 runs on 29 hits, including three doublesand one home run with nine RBI ... Was 4 for 6 on the basepaths andfielded at a .948 clip ... Went 1-3 and had one save on the moundwith a 5.04 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 33.1 innings of work ...Opposing players hit just .225 (9 for 40) with two outs ... Was 3for 3 with one run scored and two RBI in a 7-6 win over BirminghamSouthern March 21 ... Gave up one earned run on three hits in threeinnings of work March 27 against Maine to pick up her lone save ofthe season ... Gave up three runs, one earned, on four hits in 4.1innings of work in a 6-3 win at Yale April 13 to earn the win ...Hit a home run and knocked in two runs in a 5-2 win at DartmouthApril 27.

Sophomore • 2007
Appeared in 39 games, starting 32 ... Made 23 starts in rightfieldand also started games in left, at short and as the designatedplayer ... Pitched in nine games with six starts ... Registered 12strikeouts in 22.1 innings ... Struck out five and walked just onein a five-inning no-hitter against St. Joseph’s forHarvard’s first win of the season (March 4) ... Pitched aninning of perfect relief to notch a save at Quinnipiac (April 19)... Scored tying run in Harvard’s 11-8 comeback win atDartmouth to clinch the Ivy League North Division championship (May1) ... Started five-game hitting streak (March 3-10) with singleagainst Michigan State ... Had four multi-hit games, including a3-for-4 effort in 9-8 win against Wright State in the Mercer NissanInvitational (March 24) ... Went 2 for 2 with a run batted inagainst Brown (April 22) and was 2 for 4 with two runs scored March11 against Miami (Ohio) ... Played collegiately on her native LongIsland for the first time in NCAA Regional at Hofstra.

Freshman • 2006
Led the team with a .317 batting average ... Started in 22games—seven at pitcher—and appeared in 37 games ... Had20 hits with 14 runs scored, seven RBI, and three stolen bases ...Hit a double with two runs scored and an RBI in the 6-2 win atBrown ... Went 2-for-4 in a 5-1 win over Holy Cross and then went3-for-4 in the 6-1 win over Holy Cross ... Hit safely in seven ofnine games from April 23 to May 5 ... Had a 3.40 ERA, third-loweston the team ... Posted a 5-2 record with two complete games ...Finished second on the team in strike outs with 66 in 68 innings ofwork ... Pitched a complete game in a 3-2 victory over BostonUniversity allowing only two hits and two unearned runs whilestriking out 11 ... Retired 10 batters in seven innings of work inHarvard’s 9-4 win over Iona ... Struck out at least onebatter in 18 of 20 appearances from March 4 to April 29.

Before Harvard
Four-year letterwinner in softball and soccer...Team captain andMVP in soccer...Two-time Best Defensive Player and Hardest Workeraward recipient in soccer, along with being named to theAll-Conference team three-times...Named Rookie of the Year insoftball...Named MVP for three years...Named to the All-Regionteam...Two-time All-Long Island and All-State team...Team captainfor two years...Holds the West Islip strikeout record(973)...Received Pitcher of the Year Award.

Personal
Concentrating in Economics ... A Peer Advising Fellow and a PeerMentor for Winthrop House.

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