CREDIT: JASON YOUNG / FANSHAWE ATHLETICS
Kady Hawkins was named Fanshawe's Player of the Game against the Humber Hawks on Oct. 26.

In a 19-15 loss against the Humber Hawks on Saturday, Oct. 26, Fanshawe’s softball team took home a bronze medal, the first in the program’s young history.

The softball team was established last year.

“It is definitively not the [medal] that I wanted to take home, but it still feels pretty cool especially because it is only the second year of us having a team,” said Kady Hawkins, who plays third base on the softball team. “We showed them that we are one of the top teams and we showed them that they can’t take us lightly.”

In the first inning, the Hawks started off strong gaining the first run of the game. Fanshawe could not respond in the bottom of the inning as Humber managed to pull off a triple play to get out of the inning.

The Falcons managed to respond during the bottom of the second inning after the Hawks put five runs on the board during the top of the inning.

Falcons’ Lydia Kalbfeish had a single, followed by three other consecutive singles. This led to Fanshawe scoring their first two runs of the game.

After some Humber errors, the score was 5-4 for the Hawks after two innings of play. The Hawks managed to increase their lead to 6-4 during the top of the third inning after scoring a run. In the bottom of the third inning Fanshawe took the lead erupting for eight runs. Fanshawe hit three consecutive singles scoring one run to narrow Humber’s lead to 6-5. Then Kady Hawkins took the bat with two outs and delivered a three-run bomb over the right-field fence to give Fanshawe a lead of 8-6. Fanshawe continued the two out rally tacking on four more runs that included a Rachel Dotzert triple, followed by a single and three doubles to give Fanshawe a lead of 12-6.

Humber responded in the fourth with a three-run homerun of their own. Fanshawe managed to score one run in the bottom of the inning to tie the score at 13.

In the next three innings, Humber was able to put another six runs on the board, while Fanshawe was only able to score two after an inside- the-park homerun from Reannah Hogarth-McLean. The final score was 19-15 for Humber.

Hawkins was named Fanshawe’s Player of the Game and Hogarth-McLean was named to the Championship All-Star team.

“It sucks that the season over, it is bitter sweet, we had an unreal season… we all meshed really well,” Hawkins said. “Going into next year only one person is leaving, so it is cool going in knowing everyone, knowing all of our strengths and being able to make our team even better going into next year.”