Conference Carolinas Releases 2022 Softball All-Conference Honors
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Conference Carolinas released its 2022 softball all-conference honors on Wednesday, April 27 ahead of the conference championship which begins on Thursday, April 28 at Tyger River Park in Duncan, South Carolina.
The all-conference awards were chosen by the league’s head coaches.
Kylie Emanuele and Hannah Killough of Mount Olive won Player and Pitcher of the year honors while Abby Craver of Belmont Abbey was named Freshman of the Year and Jake Cockerham of King was awarded Coach of the Year.
Emanuele finished the regular season leading Conference Carolinas with a .483 average and a 1.413 on-base plus slugging percentage. Of her 73 hits she has 18 doubles, a pair of triples nad 13 home runs. The junior third base/catcher from Corona, California drove in 77 runs on the year and scored 44 times with 15 walks and just 10 strikeouts in 151 at-bats. She was also 20-for-20 in stolen base attempts this season for the co-regular season champions. Emanuele is the first player to win the award for Mount Olive since Jenny Jackson in 2007.
Killough was just as good in the circle for the Trojans as she finished the regular season with a league-best 19 wins and a 1.61 earned run average over 161 innings pitched. She has 20 complete games in 24 starts with eight shutouts and one combined shutout. The junior right-handed pitcher from Pageland, South Carolina also leads the league with 191 strikeouts and has held opponents toa a .178 batting average. Killough is the second Trojan to win the honor joining Madison Johnston in 2015.
A freshman right-handed pitcher from Clemmons, North Carolina, Craver enters the postseason with a 1.97 ERA in 145.2 innings pitched with 14 wins and 114 strikeouts. Her ERA ranks second in the league and she has 14 complete games in her 22 starts with five shutouts. She is just the second Crusaders to win the award joining Sloane McPeak who took home the honor in 2015.
Cockerham, who is in his fourth year at King, made history for the Tornado as the first head coach to win the Coach of the Year honor in program history as he led King to the schools second Conference Carolinas regular season championship (2013) which they shared with Mount Olive. The Tornado have won 11 straight games and finished the regular season third in hitting with a .314 average and fifth in ERA at 3.42.
2022 Conference Carolinas Softball All-Conference
Player of the Year
Kylie Emanuele, Mount Olive
Pitcher of the Year
Hannah Killough, Mount Olive
Freshman of the Year
Abby Craver, Belmont Abbey
Coach of the Year
Jake Cockerham, King
Elite 23
Samantha Helms, King
First Team
1B - Claire Gilmore, North Greenville
2B - Emily Bell, Barton
3B - Kylie Emanuele, Mount Olive
SS - Ashtyn Patterson, Francis Marion
DP - Brianna McRae, North Greenville
UTL - Rikkelle Miller, King
C - Chloe Nadler, Emmanuel
C - Carly Curcio, Mount Olive
OF - Courtlynn Cooney, Mount Olive
OF - Erin Foster, King
OF - Kya Santiago, Emmanuel
P - Hannah Killough, Mount Olive
P - Carly Turner, King
P - Abby Craver, Belmont Abbey
Second Team
1B - Mackensie Hogan, Emmanuel
2B - Glory Thompson, Emmanuel
3B - Emily Morgan, Belmont Abbey
SS - Mary Sells, UNC Pembroke
DP - Samantha Allred, UNC Pembroke
UTL - Lily Shelton, Emmanuel
C - Jordan Adcox, UNC Pembroke
C - Peyton Day, King
OF - Hannah Foster, Lees-McRae
OF - Megan Bryant, Mount Olive
OF - Kyna Cheney, Emmanuel
P - Nikole Counts, King
P - Miranda Holmes, Barton
P - Hailey Kessinger, Mount Olive
All-Defensive Team
1B - Claire Gilmore, North Greenville
2B - Emma Jackson, Lees-McRae
3B - Janecia Hemingway, Francis Marion
SS - Ashtyn Patterson, Francis Marion
UTL - Rikkelle Miller, King
C - Chloe Nadler, Emmanuel
LF - Samantha Helms, King
CF - Kya Santiago, Emmanuel
RF - Jenna Hewes, North Greenville
P - Abby Craver, Belmont Abbey