The State University of New York at New Paltz took a look back at some of the best all-time statistical leaders in Hawks softball history. See who owns the top spot in most career hits, runs, home runs, strikeouts and wins. Photo gallery of all statistical leaders is also included below.

 

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Top-5 Hit Leaders

5) Shayna Burgess (2012-15)
Total: 138

Burgess, a catcher from Smithtown, NY finished her four years as a Hawk with a combined .337 batting average and .450 on base percentage. After graduating from Commack High School,  She earned a spot on the SUNYAC All-Academic team as a freshman in 2012.  She went on to make Second-Team All-SUNYAC in 2013 leading SUNY New Paltz in runs (35), on base percentage (.456), and stolen bases (12). In 2014, she boasted one of the greatest seasons in the program's history, making First-Team All-SUNYAC and leading the Hawks in nearly every offensive stat. In her final year at SUNY New Paltz, she was named Second-Team All-SUNYAC once again, making an all-league team for the third consecutive year.

4) Amalia DiTrapani (2005-08) 
Total: 140

DiTrapani, a shortstop from Staten Island who graduated from Tottenville High School, batted .319 with 37 hits in her very first year as a Hawk. After a minor setback her sophomore year, she returned in 2007 strong with a .324 batting average and 35 hits, nine of which were doubles, to go along with 21 RBI. Her best season was in 2008 when she was a senior, where she posted a career-high .364 batting average with 43 hits and earned a spot on the All-SUNYAC First-Team.


 

3) Gina Marotta (1995-98)
Total: 151

The second basemen from New Windsor, NY led the team with a .372 batting average as a freshman and recorded a whopping five home runs on the season. Again in 1996 she posted tremendous offensive stats, batting .453 with 43 hits. She won a spot on the All-Northeast regional First-Team in 1998 when she batted an unheard of .500 with a .940 slugging percentage.

2) Mellisa Liotta (2010-13)
Total: 153

The middle infielder from Brentwood, NY made All-SUNYAC Second-Team her junior year after  leading the team in hits (44), along with almost every other offensive stat. Her senior season she batted .355 with 43 hits and 25 RBIs, making First-Team All-SUNYAC. 

 

1) Lauren Motzkin (2005-08)
Total: 171

Motzkin, a catcher/outfielder from Woodstock, NY had her first great season as a sophomore, where she batted .331 with 39 hits. As a junior in 2007, she led the team in batting average (.412), hits (47), doubles (11), triples (2), and home runs (2) en route to earning First-Team All-SUNYAC. Her senior campaign was one of the all-time greatest seasons a Hawk has ever posted. She batted .397 with 58 hits and 32 RBI, becoming the only Hawk in her sport to ever make a DIII All-American selection, landing on third-team. This storied career finished with 171 total hits, making her the all-time leader in SUNY New Paltz Softball history.
 

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 Top 5 Run Leaders

 

5) Jacqui Pesa (1985-88)
Total: 94

Pesa, the Woodside, NY native played shortstop and third base during her four years with the Hawks. She made First-Team All-SUNYAC in 1987 with a .526 batting average and 41 hits to go along with 11 stolen bases. She posted another monster season in 1988 with a .437 batting average, 29 runs scored and only one strikeout in 71 at bats.

 

4) Melissa Liotta (2010-13)
Total: 95

After leading St. John the Baptist High School to a catholic high school championship in 2009, Liotta went on to have a 153-hit career with the Hawks, making two All-SUNYAC teams. Her best season came as a senior in 2013, when she scored 29 runs, along with totaling 43 hits and 25 RBI.



 

3) Lauren Motzkin (2005-08)
Total: 98

The all-time leader in hits for the Hawks, Motzkin earned two All-SUNYAC selections and an All-American nod in her senior year. During that season, she led the Hawks in runs with 35, hits with a record 58, all with a .555 slugging percentage. Notching some of the best seasons ever at SUNY New Paltz, she finished third in all-time runs scored with 98.
 

2) Shayna Burgess (2012-15)
Total: 105

After leading Commack High School to a league championship in 2010, Burgess went on to become a huge asset to the Hawks for four consecutive years, making two All-SUNYAC teams.  She is the number five leader in career hits with 138, and translated those trips on base to runs as well, dominating on the base paths with double digit steals in every season after her freshman year. She scored 25 runs and notched 41 hits in 2014 — the year she earned  First-Team All-SUNYAC.

1) Gina Marotta (1995-98)
Total: 109

The second basemen from New Windsor, NY has the third most hits ever as a Hawk and is a member of a very rare club of players to bat .500 on a softball field.  The Newburgh Free Academy graduate earned all SUNYAC and all-Northeast Region first team in 1998 when she scored 30 runs to go along with 42 hits and an unbelievable .500 batting average, having without question one of the all time great seasons in program history.  She leads all players in runs scored with 109.
 

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 Top 5 home run leaders

 

5) Nicole DeCosta (2014-17)
Total: 8

DeCosta played catcher/third base for the Hawks during her four years. The Stormville, NY native led the Hawks with two home runs in her freshman year with 11 hits and three doubles. She hit three more home runs her sophomore year to go along with a much improved .289 batting average. She once again hit two home runs in 2016 to go along with 26 hits and a SUNYAC All-Academic team spot. In her final season as a Hawk, Decosta had a career high 27 hits, a homerun, and a .287 batting average.

4) Michele Smith (1988-89)
Total: 9

Smith had a monster season in 1988, leading the team in home runs with 5, RBI with 31, and triples with two. The catcher from Binghamton, NY did all this while sporting a .408 batting average and earned a First-Team All-SUNYAC selection. In 1989 she batted .452 with four more home runs, a team high 28 RBI and 63 total bases. She only played two seasons as a Hawk and both were tremendous.
 

3) Erin Fitzpatrick (2007-10)
Total: 10

Fitzpatrick is a Delmar, NY native who played outfield for the Hawks from 2007-2010. As a freshman she started in 32 games, totaled 19 runs, 28 hits and 16 RBI and led the team in home runs with four to go with seven doubles. She has the first ever home run on Mary Grey Deanne Field after the Hawks relocated it to its current location next to the Loren Campbell Memorial Field. In 2008, she again led the team in home runs with three ringers. Fitzpatrick hit one more home run in 2009 to go along with a .292 batting average with 15 RBI. In her final year with the Hawks, the Bethlehem Central High School graduate hit two more home runs, bringing her total to 10.

2) Gina Marotta (1995-98)
Total: 12

Appearing on this list for a third time, Marotta, who dominated in her four years as a Hawk, batting .500, leading the program in runs, and third in hits, also had deadly power. In her first year as a Hawk she paced the team in home runs (5), doubles (6), and triples (4), all while batting .372. She hit two home runs and 10 doubles the next season and once again led the team in both categories.  As a junior she hit one home run and 11 RBI, and in her final season she batted .500 with four home runs, making an all-region team with SUNY New Paltz.

1) Fallon Spriggs (2015-17)
Total: 13

Spriggs was an outfielder for the Hawks for three seasons after graduating from Kingston High School. In her first year, Spriggs set the school record in single-season home runs with seven, finishing second in the entire conference. In her second season, she had eight multiple hit games and added six more home runs to go along with a .319 batting average. In her final season as a Hawk, she led the team with a .336 batting average, but no home runs, but in two seasons she was able to hit the most home runs of anyone who ever wore the uniform.
 

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 Top 5 Strikeout Leaders

 

5) Katie Rutcofsky (2013-16)
Total: 155

Rutcofsky, from Plainview, NY struck out 53 batters and compiled two complete game shutouts in her first season with SUNY New Paltz. She made Second-Team All-SUNYAC during her second year with an impressive 2.95 ERA to go along with 51 strikeouts. She also batted .355 that season.  During her junior year, she was named Pitcher of the Week on March 30,, and finished the season with a 2.53 ERA. She once again made Second-Team All-SUNYAC in 2016 when she recorded 103 strikeouts and 12 complete games to go along with a .320 batting average.

4) Lauren Capello (2015-2018)
Total: 191

Capello's career as a Hawk started mainly at the plate, while starting at first base when she wasn't in the circle. During her first season, she drove in 13 RBI with 23 hits. In the one game that she was starting pitcher, she recorded three strikeouts and had two more in a game later that season against Brooklyn when she came in for relief. Her second season she struck out 17 batters and finished, but it was in her last two seasons where she really shined in the circle, earning team MVP both years and Second-Team All-SUNYAC in her junior year with a 2.53 ERA and 16 wins, finishing second in the conference in that stat.

3) Michelle Reinke (2005-08)
Total: 275

Reinke, a Smithtown, NY native, recorded a team leading 2.41 ERA with 89 strikeouts during her first year with the team. The following season she added 114 more strikeouts to the total and a 2.80 ERA. As a junior her ERA took a hit and went up to 4.90, but she added 72 more strikeouts. In her final season, she had a 3.73 ERA and 57 strikeouts.


 

2) Erin Conklin (1996-99)
Total: 309

Conklin graduated from Suffern High School in 1995. During her freshman year, she recorded a 12-6 record with 69 strikeouts and a 2.30 ERA. She followed it up with a 63-strikeout, 6.13 ERA season.  In her third year, the Suffern, NY native brought her ERA down to 2.59 with 64 strikeouts. As a senior, Conklin had a career-high 118 strikeouts to go along with an impressive 2.84 ERA.


 

1) Cristina Lukas (1993-95)
Total: 455

Lukas, the Guilford, CT product went 11-11 with 98 strikeouts and a 2.22 ERA in her very first season. During the 1994 season she struck out a whopping 232 batters with a 1.93 ERA, recording one of the greatest seasons in program history. She followed up in the 1995 season with 125 more strikeouts and an all SUNYAC first team selection.



 

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Top 5 Win Leaders

5) Kelly O'Hea (2005-08)
Total: 24

O'Hea, from Huntington Station, NY, sported a 3.00 ERA with 89 strikeouts and nine wins in her first season. To follow that up as a sophomore, she had six wins and 63 strikeouts. As a junior, she led the team with a 3.26 ERA to go along with 58 strikeouts and 10 more wins. In her final season, O'Hea won three games with a 3-3 record, also batting above .300 with two home runs.

 

4) Michelle Reinke (2005-08)
Total: 27

The Smithtown, NY native, who holds the third-most strikeouts in SUNY New Paltz Softball history, recorded nine wins her freshman year. During her second year, she finished with 12 wins, 118 strikeouts and an impressive 2.80 ERA. Reinke had a slightly down season her junior year, with a 4.90 ERA and six recorded wins. In her final season, the Long Island product collected five more wins with 57 more strikeouts.

 

3) Katie Rutcofsky (2013-16)
Total: 32

Rutcofsky, one of the great hitting pitchers to wear the uniform, made two All-SUNYAC teams during her time at SUNY New Paltz. She had six wins and a 3.79 ERA to go along with an impressive .303 batting average during her first year. She won five more games her second season with a 2.95 ERA, making the All-SUNYAC Second-Team. She was an All-SUNYAC Second-Team selection again in 2016 when she recorded 12 wins with 103 strikeouts, solidifying herself as one of the all-time great Hawk pitchers.
 

2) Cristina Lukas (1993-95)
Total: 40

Lukas, during her three years wearing orange and blue, put up some of the greatest numbers ever recorded for the program. She won 11 games with a 2.22 ERA during her first year, and as a sophomore added 19 more wins with an absurd 232 strikeouts. In her final season, Lukas added 10 more wins, finishing with a 10-10 record and bringing her total to 40, giving her the second-most wins in program history.
 

1) Erin Conklin (1996-99)
Total: 46

Conklin was dominant in the circle during her four years with the Hawks. She won 12 games her freshman year and had a 12-6 record. She went 6-10 her second year, recording 50-plus strikeouts in both seasons. Although her ERA spiked during her second season, she followed it up with a 2.59 ERA, 10-win season in 1998. During her final season, Conklin had an impressive 118 strikeouts with 18 wins and only 11 losses, putting up arguably her best season as a Hawk and leaving the program with the most wins in its history with 46.


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