LORETTO, Pa.- The Saint Francis softball team is proud to announce that Hayley Norton (Spring Grove, Pa./Spring Grove) won her third NEC Player of the Week Award of the 2019 season! 

Norton electrified her feared power stroke in the games against Kent State, Bucknell, and LIU Brooklyn by smashing four home runs in six games. The senior slugger hit .471, clubbed eight hits, added a double, and drove in nine RBI while accumulating a slugging percentage of 1.235. Norton saved her best doubleheader for NEC leader LIU Brooklyn by smashing three home runs to earn a crucial split in the race for the conference tournament. The four bombs gives Norton 15 home runs on the season which ties a career high for the left fielder and is fourth best in the single-season home run list. Her nine RBI moves her up to 58 on the year good for eighth in the nation and a career high for Norton. Additionally, the 58 RBI are now third best in program history for a single-season. 

Norton and Red Flash softball return to action this Saturday for a pivotal doubleheader against Fairleigh Dickinson.