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Burgardt and Ediger earn NFCA South Region first team honors

Burgardt and Ediger earn NFCA South Region first team honors
Posted: May 28, 2024

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced its NFCA NJCAA Division II All-Region teams for the 2024 season. A total of 76 student-athletes were selected including two from Johnson County Community Colllege. 

Freshman third baseman Aspen Burgardt and sophomore first baseman Kate Ediger were selected to the NFCA South Region first team. These two were key in helping lead JCCC to a conference title and fifth place finish at the NJCAA D-II World Series. 

Last week, both players were seleced as first team All-Kansas Jayhawk Conference D-II performers. Burgardt was also named MVP of the league.

This season, Burgardt led the conference with a .503 batting average, collecging 86 hits in 171 at bats. Her 86 hits also led the conference along with 33 doubles, 58 extra base hits and 84 RBI. She also belted 26 home runs, which ranked second in the conference. Her 33 doubles and 58 extra base hits also led the NJCAA, and her 84 RBI ranked fifth.

Burgardt set JCCC season records for doubles, home runs, extra base hits and multiiple RBI games (25), and 84 RBI are second most recorded in a season. She also ranks tied for 10th in batting average and hits, and tied for 13th with 25 multiple-hit games. 

Ediger closed out her sophomore season battting .417 (78-for-187) with 23 doubles, 18 home runs, 41 extra base hits, 54 runs and 51 RBI. She also led the team with 26 multiple-hit games and was third with 15 multiple-RBI games.  She finished second in the conference in doubles, fifth in home runs and third in extra base hits. Nationally she tied for 11th in doubles, tied for 24th in homers and tied for 12th in extra base hits. 

On JCCC's season charts, she is tied for sixth doubles, second in home runs, tied for 10th in muliti-hit games, tied for 21st in RBI and tied for fifth in multi-RBI games. 

For her career, she ranks 14th in batting aveage (.448), 22nd in hits (134), tied for fourth in doubles (36), tied for fourth in home runs (22), second in extra base hits (60), eighth in RBI (100), ninth in multi-hit games (41) and third in multi-RBI games (28).