Comtois, Couto Headline Softball CCC Postseason Award Winners

CCC RELEASE

BEVERLY, Mass. – Seven members of the Endicott softball team have earned Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) postseason honors, as announced by the league office earlier today.

Raven Comtois (Milford, N.H.) and Jaylin Couto (Taunton, Mass.) highlighted the list of award winners with CCC Player of the Year and CCC Pitcher of the Year honors, respectively.

The remaining award winners for the Gulls included:

ALL-CCC FIRST TEAM

P – Jaylin Couto (Taunton, Mass.)
C – Raven Comtois (Milford, N.H.)
OF – Lauren Misiaszek (Londonderry, N.H.)

ALL-CCC SECOND TEAM

P – Maria Hanchuk (South Windsor, Conn.)
1B – Chloe Shapleigh (Lynnfield, Mass.)
SS – Emma DaSilva (Bristol, R.I.)
OF – Christina Nowicki (Chelsea, Mass.)

MAJOR AWARD WINNERS

RAVEN COMTOIS | SR. | C
Player of the Year | All-CCC First Team

Comtois is the eighth student-athlete in program history to earn conference Player of the Year honors.

She joins Endicott Hall of Famer Meghan Sargent Plath '09 (Salisbury, Mass.) as the only other catcher in program history to win the award.

Sargent Plath won the award twice, in 2007 and 2008. She is the only student-athlete in the program to claim multiple conference Player of the Year accolades.

In 42 games played (all starts, 26 at C, 16 at DP), Comtois slashed .427/.471/.748 to go along with 31 runs, 61 hits – 10 doubles, 12 home runs – 36 RBI, 12 walks, and only 14 strikeouts in 143 at-bats.

Comtois compiled a team-leading 19 multi-hit games (2 – 12 | 3 – 7) and nine multi-RBI contests (2 – 5 | 3 – 3 | 4 – 1). She currently sports a 23-game hitting and 23-game on-base streak, the longest of anyone on the team.

The Gulls are 21-5 when she starts at catcher and 14-2 when Comtois starts at designated player this season. Endicott also is 17-0 since Comtois moved up to the two-hole in the lineup.

This is Comtois' second career All-CCC First Team selection.

CCC RANKS: runs (8th), hits (3rd), doubles (9th), home runs (2nd), RBI (4th), total bases (2nd, 107), batting average (2nd), on-base percentage (3rd), slugging percentage (2nd)

NCAA RANKS: batting average (116th), hits (32nd), home runs (12th), home runs per game (20th), 0.29), on-base percentage (198th), RBI (116th), RBI per game (186th, 0.86), slugging percentage (50th), total bases (11th)

JAYLIN COUTO | JR. | P
Pitcher of the Year | All-CCC First Team

Couto is the sixth student-athlete in program history to receive conference Pitcher of the Year accolades (11th overall selection).

In 19 appearances (17 starts, 15 complete games, 6 shutouts), Couto produced a 16-3 record and a 1.11 earned run average (ERA) in 119 2/3 innings.

She yielded 84 hits, 28 runs (19 earned), and 17 walks alongside 86 strikeouts (5.03 K/7).

As a team, the Gulls went 14-3 in her 17 starts on the season (16-3 in 19 appearances).

Couto picked up marquee wins against Wesleyan (7 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, career-high 13 Ks), No. 25 MIT (7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K), Babson (4/25), and Western New England (CCC Clincher, 6 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, 2 K).

This is Couto's second career All-CCC selection (second team, 20220)

CCC RANKS: games started (8th), wins (1st), complete games (2nd), shutouts (1st), innings pitched (5th), strikeouts (9th), strikeouts per game (9th), batting average against (2nd, .194), ERA (1st)

NCAA RANKS: complete games (79th), ERA (21st), hits allowed per seven innings (44th, 4.91), shutouts (29th), strikeout-to-walk ratio (71st, 5.06), victories (31st), walks plus hits per innings pitched (WHP, 21st, 0.84), walks allowed per seven innings (75th, .99)

WHAT'S NEXT

Endicott (35-7) will take on RPI in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, May 18 at 2 PM on the campus of MIT. 

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(Photo Credit - David Le '10 / Jonny Ratner '24)