All-Southeast Conference softball players elected

The Southeast Conference released its coaches’ choices for all-conference softball players.

The coaches selected Fairfield’s Coty Engle as Player of the Year. She was joined on the first team by Trojan teammates Hannah Simpsonm and Jenna Norris.

Washington’s Kellie Dallmeyer and Ella Greiner were first team selections as well.

Engle, a sophomore pitcher, led the conference in wins with 17, strikeouts at 170, opponents batting average at .175. Her earned run average of 3.28 was third.

Engle scored the most runs with 62 in the SEC and her .518 batting average was second. Simpson was third at .458. Simpson batted in the most runs, 64, and her nine home runs and 60 total hits were both second. Engle’s 42 singles were the highest total in that category. Simpson tied for first in doubles with 15, Engle was third with 13. Norris was fourth with 11.

Dallmeyer led the league with 64 hits for a .529 batting average, was second in runs scored with 48, second in runs batted in from the No. 2 spot in the batting order. She was third in home runs with eight, fourth in singles with 37.

Dallmeyer moved from shortstop to catcher for her senior year and was second in the league in throwing out runners attempting to steal with almost three times as many as third place. She stole 17 bases, tied for fourth.

Dallmeyer and Greiner led the league in triples with four each.

Dallmeyer, who struck out just four times all year, led in slugging percentage (. 917) and total bases (111), Simpson was second (. 809 and 106) and Engle fourth at 74, Norris fifth with 60.

Engle’s on base percentage was first at .647, Dallmeyer second at .621, Greiner fourth with .525 and Simpson’s .514 fifth.

Engle drew 38 walks, the most and Greiner was third at 30.

Norris, Simpson and Dallmeyer were fourth, fifth and sixth in putouts, respectively. Dallmeyer was one of eight players with four errors or less.

2021 All-Southeast Conference Softball

FIRST TEAM

Coty Engle, sophomore, Fairfield

Hannah Simpson, junior, Fairfield

Jenna Norris, junior, Fairfield

Ada Wood, eighth, Keokuk

Carley McGinity, senior, Burlington

Morgan Schroeder, junior, Burlington

Adessa Brandenburg, senior, Burlington

Kayla Norton, senior, Burlington

Kellie Dallmeyer, senior, Washington

Ella Greiner, eighth, Washington

Lexi Whaley, freshman, Fort Madison

Emily Steffensmeier, sophomore, Fort Madison

Neely Rehm, sophomore, Fort Madison

SECOND TEAM

Saydee Plummer, freshman, Burlington

Makenzie Blythe, senior, Burlington

Emmy Wenger, freshman, Washington

Isabella Salazar, eighth, Washington

Logan Johnson, junior, Fort Madison

Kylee Cashman, senior, Fort Madison

Abby Thompson, senior, Keokuk

Grace Kelley, senior, Mt. Pleasant

Savanna Walls, junior, Mt. Pleasant

Delaney Breen, junior, Fairfield

HONORABLE MENTION

Megan Topping, senior, Burlington

Hannah Heuvelmann, freshman, Burlington

Peyton McCabe, sophomore, Fairfield

Emersyn Manley, sophomore, Fairfield

Erika Kruse, freshman, Fort Madison

Lauryn Helmick, freshman, Fort Madison

Rachel Moore, sophomore, Keokuk

Kayleigh Zanger, sophomore, Keokuk

Jersey Beachy, sophomore, Mt. Pleasant

Emma Starr, freshman, Mt. Pleasant

Ava Turner, junior, Washington

Cameron Malichky, senior, Washington

Academic All-Conference

Kayla Angle, senior, Burlington

Mackenzie Blythe, senior, Burlington

Brynn Casady, senior, Burlington

Carley McGinity, senior, Burlington

Morgan Schroeder, junior, Burlington

Megan Topping, senior, Burlington

Bailey Hird, senior, Fairfield

Brynley Allison, junior, Fairfield

Danielle Breen, junior, Fairfield

Delaney Breen, junior, Fairfield

Jenna Norris, junior, Fairfield

Kylee Cashman, senior, Fort Madison

Kendall Beebe, senior, Fort Madison

Allyson Helmick, senior, Fort Madison

Logan Johnson, junior, Fort Madison

Natasha Cale, junior, Keokuk

Haylee Davis, junior, Keokuk

Sydney McCarron, senior, Keokuk

Abby Thompson, senior, Keokuk

Grace Kelley, senior, Mt. Pleasant

Cristina Carthey, senior, Mt. Pleasant

Lydia Ebeling, junior, Mt. Pleasant

Savanna Walls, junior, Mt. Pleasant

Ava Turner, junior, Washington

Kellie Dallmeyer, senior, Washington

Emma Herr, senior, Washington

Cameron Malichky, senior, Washington

Southeast Conference final standings

Burlington 17-2 21-14

Fairfield 16-4 25-13

Washington 12-7 20-17

Fort Madison 9-11 15-20

Keokuk 5-15 8-26

Mt. Pleasant 0-20 1-37