OCAA honours Fanshawe
The Ontario Colleges Athletic
Association (OCAA) honoured two
of Fanshawe’s men’s baseball players
and two women’s softball players
with a League All Star Award.
Two of those students are Rachel Dotzert, an all-around female athlete, and Sean Reffinghaus, an experienced baseball batter and catcher.
Dotzert, a player on the Fanshawe women’s softball team, has always been athletic. She has played almost every sport officially and even more just for fun with her friends and neighbours. She does well in every sport and stays fit all year round because she’s always playing at least one sport at a time. In 2013 she was honoured as Female Athlete of the Year by the Stratford Minor Sports Council.
She also played basketball and hockey in high school and has competed in multiple Canadian softball championships with her team.
Reffinghaus, on the other hand, focused more on his baseball career. He was his high school’s baseball MVP for several years. He also played on the London Badgers Midget team for the past couple years. With him the team won the gold medal for the Canadian Midget National Baseball Championships in 2011 and the bronze medal in 2013.
Both of these athletes have been huge assets to their Fanshawe teams this season and were pivotal parts in the teams’ successes.
This softball season, Dotzert had a great season. Over the course of the season she had 23 hits for the team. She had a .442 batting average for the season, which was right behind Fanshawe’s Kady Hawkins who had a .500.
Dotzert drove in eight runs, scoring points for the Fanshawe team and helping them in their eight overall season wins. She scored two doubles and two triples during the season. Her hitting wasn’t her only skill that helped the team out. She also stole six bases over the course of the season, which is only two behind the leader in the OCAA league.
Her performance this year was impressive. One can hope she will display her other athletic abilities by playing for Fanshawe on other varsity teams over the course of the year.
Reffinghaus was a pivotal player in this season’s men’s baseball team. He was the catcher for all of the team’s 18 season games, which proved to be key in meshing the team together.
“With him playing catcher it allowed for our first year team to gel quickly together and allowed for our team to have so much success as a first year team,” Coach Brian Harvey said.
Reffinghaus was also sixth in the league for batting average with an average of .417 and he was fifth in the OCAA for overall hitting. Sean was the on field leader on the team this year. He batted third for the entire season scoring 22 runs on 25 hits. He also got 19 runs batted in (RBI). Sean’s hitting was an important part of the team’s success this season.
“He truly was the catalyst for our baseball team,” said Harvey.
Two of those students are Rachel Dotzert, an all-around female athlete, and Sean Reffinghaus, an experienced baseball batter and catcher.
Dotzert, a player on the Fanshawe women’s softball team, has always been athletic. She has played almost every sport officially and even more just for fun with her friends and neighbours. She does well in every sport and stays fit all year round because she’s always playing at least one sport at a time. In 2013 she was honoured as Female Athlete of the Year by the Stratford Minor Sports Council.
She also played basketball and hockey in high school and has competed in multiple Canadian softball championships with her team.
Reffinghaus, on the other hand, focused more on his baseball career. He was his high school’s baseball MVP for several years. He also played on the London Badgers Midget team for the past couple years. With him the team won the gold medal for the Canadian Midget National Baseball Championships in 2011 and the bronze medal in 2013.
Both of these athletes have been huge assets to their Fanshawe teams this season and were pivotal parts in the teams’ successes.
This softball season, Dotzert had a great season. Over the course of the season she had 23 hits for the team. She had a .442 batting average for the season, which was right behind Fanshawe’s Kady Hawkins who had a .500.
Dotzert drove in eight runs, scoring points for the Fanshawe team and helping them in their eight overall season wins. She scored two doubles and two triples during the season. Her hitting wasn’t her only skill that helped the team out. She also stole six bases over the course of the season, which is only two behind the leader in the OCAA league.
Her performance this year was impressive. One can hope she will display her other athletic abilities by playing for Fanshawe on other varsity teams over the course of the year.
Reffinghaus was a pivotal player in this season’s men’s baseball team. He was the catcher for all of the team’s 18 season games, which proved to be key in meshing the team together.
“With him playing catcher it allowed for our first year team to gel quickly together and allowed for our team to have so much success as a first year team,” Coach Brian Harvey said.
Reffinghaus was also sixth in the league for batting average with an average of .417 and he was fifth in the OCAA for overall hitting. Sean was the on field leader on the team this year. He batted third for the entire season scoring 22 runs on 25 hits. He also got 19 runs batted in (RBI). Sean’s hitting was an important part of the team’s success this season.
“He truly was the catalyst for our baseball team,” said Harvey.
