Yellowjackets’ Ehnes Earns PacWest Player of the Week Honors (Feb. 9, 2004)

BILLINGS, MT – Montana State-Billings pitcher Joey Ehnes was named the Pacific West Conference softball player of the week on Monday after leading the Yellowjackets to a 4-2 record at the Las Vegas Classic last week. 

Ehnes was 3-0 as a starter for the Jackets, earning wins against Longwood College, Vanguard University, and Pittsburg State University (KS).  She struck out 20 batters, allowing just seven hits and one earned run in 21 innings of work.

Against Pittsburg State—which had beaten PacWest teams Hawaii-Hilo, 16-2, and BYU-Hawaii, 7-3—Ehnes took a no-hitter into the seventh inning where she gave up a one-out bloop single for her only hit allowed in the game. 

Ehnes, a junior from Great Falls, MT, has been an All-PacWest second team selection in each of her first two season with the Yellowjackets.  She holds school records for career earned run average (1.95), career victories (15), and career strikeouts (127).