Aimee Kemp Closes Out Senior Season With Ivy League Softball Pitcher of the Week Award
5/4/2010 4:51:00 PM | Softball
NEW YORK -- After a pair of sterling pitching performances over the weekend, senior Aimee Kemp was named Ivy League Softball Pitcher of the Week on Tuesday afternoon. Kemp closed out her Columbia career in style by shutting down Penn on Senior Day at Columbia Softball Stadium.
After tossing just 19.1 innings heading into Sunday and playing right field for much of the year due to injuries, Kemp got the ball on the final day of the regular season and made herself at home from the get-go.
A second team All-Ivy League pitcher as a first-year, Kemp twirled a two-hit shutout against the Quakers in the first game, an 11-0 run-rule victory for the Lions in five innings. The Oakley, Calif. native needed only 50 pitches to work the five frames and did not allow a base runner to advance past second base.
Kemp entered the circle to begin the second game of the twinbill, and continued her string of scoreless innings. The righthander scattered six hits over five more shutout innings, and walked just one batter while striking out one en route to a 9-0 win. The two shutouts gave Kemp six for her career and tied her with teammate Maggie Johnson for fourth place on Columbia's career shutout list.
