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2013 Softball Roster

Jeremy Enlow/Lone Star Conference
Patrick Johnston/MSU Athletics
Jeremy Enlow/Lone Star Conference
Patrick Johnston/MSU Athletics

6 Elena Bennett

  • Position Outfield
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Carrollton, Texas
  • Prev School Creekview HS

Biography
The Bennett File
Parents: Gene and Pam Bennett
Birthday: January 13, 1991
Major: Art
Honors
Marie Morgan Award
2013
NFCA All America
2011 (2nd)
Daktronics All America
2011 (2nd)
NFCA All-South Central Region
2011 (1st)
Daktronics All-South Central Region
2011 (1st)
All-Lone Star Conference
2010 (1st), 2011 (1st), 2012 (2nd), 2013 (1st)
24 Strong Teammate of the Year
2012-13
LSC Crossover All-Tournament
2010
LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll
2012
Statistics
2013
2012
2011
2010
Career Stats
At Midwestern State

Senior (2013)
- presented with Marie Morgan Award as MSU's most outstanding female athlete.
- earned All-Lone Star Conference first-team honors.
- made 27 starts in center field before suffering season ending leg injury at Central Oklahoma on March 20, 2013.
- ranked fifth in NCAA Division II with a .523 batting average at time of the injury with two doubles and seven RBIs while scoring 35 runs.
- finished second in the LSC with 27 stolen bases despite playing in less than 50 percent of her team's games.
- finished career as MSU's all-time leader in batting average (.396), sacrifice hits (43), stolen bases (124) and multiple-hit games (82).
- second on MSU's all-time lists in runs scored (174) and hits (265).
- accounted for 2-or-more hits in 15 of her 27 games played as a senior including a 4-hit performance against West Texas A&M on March 16, 2013.
- hit .600 (12-for-20) with five stolen bases in a season-opening seven game hitting streak from Feb. 1-9, 2013.
- matched a program record with four stolen bases in single games against Western New Mexico (2/1) and Oklahoma Panhandle State (3/3).
- named Most Outstanding Teammate by her peers.

Junior (2012)
- started all 51 games in center field.
- hit .344 with two doubles, one triple while scoring 41 runs.
- swiped 33 stolen bases out of 34 attempts.
- had three stolen bases against Incarnate Word on March 24.
- named to the All-Lone Star Conference Second Team
- named to the LSC Commisioner's Honor Roll
- held a fielding percentage of .958 while logging four outfield assists.
- had 20 multiple hit games while getting three hits on seven occasions.
- batted .458  (11-for-24) during a six game hitting streak from Feb. 6-12 then matched it again hitting .650 (13-for-20) from Feb. 19-25.
- has the most career stolen bases for Midwestern with 97 with one more season left to play.

Sophomore (2011)
- appeared in 68 games making 66 starts in center field.
- set MSU single season records with 91 hits and 39 stolen bases.
- hit .414 with three doubles and a triple.
- hit .556 with five runs and three stolen bases during Lone Star Conference Championships without all-tournament honors.
- became third player in program history to score more than 50 runs.
- logged another school record with a 20-game hitting streak while hitting .574 (39-for-68) from Feb. 5-March 6.
- recorded a hit in 30 of 31 games from Feb. 6-April 1.
- had 2-or-more stolen bases in nine games with a season high of three against Northeastern State on March 20.
- notched school record by logging multiple hits in 30 games.
- led team with 12 sacrifice hits.
- made one error in 63 chances in center field with five outfield assists.

Freshman (2010)
- started 57 games as a true freshman including 54 in center field and three in left field.
- voted team's most improved player by her teammates.
- led team with a .366 batting average which included 67 base hits - all singles - reaching on the second-most safeties for a freshman in school history.
- set school record with 16 sacrifice hits.
- successful on 51 of her 78 bunts including 35 bunt singles (.565).
- hit .463 (19-for-41) during a 13-game hitting streak from Feb. 20-March 15, 2010.
- batted .500 (5-for-10) with two stolen bases while helping MSU to wins over St. Mary's, Nebraska-Omaha and West Texas A&M in the NCAA II South Central Sub-Regionals on May 15 and 16 at Mustangs Park.
- logged a team-best 17 multiple-hit games including three hits in against Abilene Christian (March 4), Missouri Southern (March 6), Angelo State (March 26) and St. Mary's (May 15).
- was successful on 25 of her 28 stolen base attempts.

At Creekview High School
- garnered first-team All-District 9-5A accolades as a senior outfielder in 2009 after earning second-team all-league honors as a junior for coach Jennifer Fudge at Creekview High School in Carrollton, Texas.
- claimed a District 9-5A championship in the triple jump (36' 11 1/2") and finished third in the long jump (16' 1/2") in the spring of 2009 as a senior.

Statistics

Season:
2013

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2010Freshman

    Outfield
    5'8"
    6
  • 6

    2011Sophomore

    Outfield
    5'8"
    6
  • 6

    2012Junior

    Outfield
    5'8"
    6
  • 6

    2013Senior

    Outfield
    5'8"
    6