Indianapolis, Ind. -- Youngstown State junior Jordan Ingalls has been to the All-Horizon League First-Team and senior Kim Klonowski was named to the second-team after a vote by the Horizon League head softball coaches, the league announced on Tuesday (May 10).
Ingalls becomes the first YSU player to earn first-team honors since McKenzie Bedra in 2008, and Klonowski is the first multi-year honoree since Bedra was a back-to-back first-team choice in 2007 and 2008. Klonowski was also named All-Horizon League Second-Team in 2009.
This season, Ingalls led the team and the Horizon League with a .385 batting average and ranked tied for second in the league with 40 runs batted in. Ingalls also ranked second in the league with four triples, fifth with 55 hits and tied for fifth with 87 total bases.
Ingalls set career highs in hits, triples, runs batted in, home runs (five) and slugging percentage (.608).
Ingalls was also the first YSU player to win consecutive Horizon League Player-of-the-Week Awards when she caputred the award on March 14 and 21.
Klonowski is just the fifth YSU player to earn All-Horizon League honors in multiple years and lead the Guins with a .400 batting average against league opponents.
Overall, Klonowski batted .319 with nine doubles, two home runs and 18 runs batted in.
Over the last 19 games she appeared, Klonowski batted an impressive .451 (23-for-51) with five doubles, two home runs, eight runs batted in and scored five times. She also owned a .667 slugging percentage during that time.
