New Jersey City University Athletics

ALL-REGION TEAMS

STARKVILLE, MS (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | After enjoying outstanding individual efforts during the 2012 softball season, New Jersey City University's top two players in the lineup have received their second major accolades as junior first/third baseman REBECCA SATZ (Morris Plains, NJ/Morristown) and senior shortstop MEGAN GINTER (Nutley, NJ/Nutley) were each voted to the 2012 NFCA Division III All-East Region, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association has announced.
 
Satz, who claimed All-Region distinction for the first time in her career, was selected to the Second-Team All-East Region squad while Ginter earned Third-Team All-East Region status for the second consecutive season to cap her Gothic Knight career.
 
Both players, previously named First-Team All-New Jersey Athletic Conference earlier this month, were selected All-Region in at-large positions.
 
Ginter becomes just the second player in school history to be a two-time All-Region selection, joining Jen Barletta who was Third-Team All-Atlantic in 1998 and Third-Team All-East in 2001.
 
Satz, who led the NJAC in an incredible 11 offensive categories in 2012, becomes the fifth different player in program history to claim All-Region accolades and Ginter and Satz become the first teammates to receive All-Region nods in the same season since 1998 when Barletta, Sharyn Hunchak and current NJCU Hall-of-Famer Karen Masters were all honored.
  Satz enjoyed perhaps the best offensive year any player has ever produced for the Green and Gold as she broke or tied seven major single-season records and was close to surpassing several more. The two-time First-Team All-NJAC  selection and former conference Rookie of the Year, was among the most dangerous offensive threats in the NJAC this year.
 
In 39 games (39 starts) she batted .453 with 58 hits in 128 at bats, while producing 31 RBIs, 30 runs and a .467 on-base percentage (five walks, two sacrifice flies).   Nearly half of her hits went for extra bases as Satz registered 17 doubles, two triples and seven homeruns for 100 total bases and a .781 slugging percentage. She was 2-for-2 in steals. One of the most difficult players in Division III to strikeout, Satz only K'd three times in 135 plate appearances. She led NJCU with 17 multiple-hit and six multiple-RBI games.
 
She also was NJCU's best player defensively, with a .986 fielding percentage and only four errors in 284 chances (249 putouts, 31 assists) while helping to turn 14 of NJCU's 17 double plays.
 
Satz, who batted in the No. 3 spot in the lineup in 37 of 39 games, hit safely in 34 contests and became the first player in school history to produce two hitting streaks of double-digit games in the same season (22 and 10 games).
 
Satz set single-season school records for doubles, total bases, extra-base hits (24), longest hitting streak, and longest consecutive games reached base (22). She matched the single-season records for total hits and homeruns. Her slugging percentage was third best in school history and her batting average was fifth all-time and the highest since 2000—a season when the NJAC was divided into a two-divisional format.
 
In the final 2012 NJAC statistics, Satz led the conference in batting average, slugging percentage, doubles, average vs. righties (.487), percentage reaching as a leadoff hitter (.765), percentage advancing runners (.671), hits per game (1.49), doubles per game (0.44) and fielding double plays (14) and tied for the league lead in hits, total bases, and extra-base hits.
 
She was second in two-out batting average (.435) and average with the bases empty (.544), fourth in on-base percentage, fifth in RBIs, homeruns and chances (284), sixth in sacrifice flies and putouts (249), eighth in runners advanced (17), 12^th in runs scored and two-out RBIs (10), 13^th in triples and average with runners on base (.380),
 
Satz was 14 points higher than anyone else in the league in batting and 49 points better than the field in slugging and had three more doubles than any player outside of the NJCU roster. Her average against righties was 47 points higher than anyone in the NJAC and her percentage reaching as a leadoff batter was a mind-boggling 115 points better.
  While Satz was the contact-hitting power-hitter, Ginter was the speedy leadoff threat who also had some punch in her bat.
 
Ginter, a spark plug at the top of the lineup in, batted .363 (45-124) with 40 runs, 15 RBIs and 20 extra base hits—15 doubles, one triple and four homeruns for 74 total bases (.597 slugging). Her 15 doubles equaled the previous single-season record originally set in 1994. Ginter, who reached base in 13 consecutive games during the season, drew 16 walks and five hit by pitch for a .452 on-base percentage (two sacrifices) and once she got on base was as dangerous a player as anyone in the conference with 29 stolen bases in 32 attempts. Ginter graduates as NJCU's all-time leader in stolen bases (98-112)—nine more than anyone else
 
Defensively, she was one of the most exciting shortstops to watch because of her impressive range covering the difficult position. In 171 chances at the position she had 73 putouts and 84 assists versus 14 errors for a .918 fielding rate and helped turn 10 double plays.
 
In the final NJAC standings, Ginter was the league leader in runs scored per game (1.03), and ranked second in runs scored, doubles, doubles per game (0.38), stolen bases, stolen bases per game (0.74), steal attempts, and plate appearances per game (3.77). She also ranked third in fielding double plays, sixth in hit by pitch, seventh in batting average and on-base percentage, eighth in slugging, ninth in total bases, assists and percentage reaching as a leadoff hitter (.561), 10^th in homeruns, 11^th in average versus lefties (.563), 12^th in walks, 16^th in average with the bases empty (.402), 17^th in hits and average vs. righties (.333), and 18^th in defensive chances.