Courtesy of UMB Media Relations

University of Massachusetts Boston softball player Elizabeth Erlandson (East Boston, MA) has been named Little East Conference Softball Player of the Week for the week of March 28-April 3, it was announced Monday, April 4, by the conference.

Erlandson batted .500 (5-10) in four games for the week, including a 3-5 output in an April 1 doubleheader at Eastern Connecticut State University. The junior also scored a run and struck out just once in 10 plate appearances. The outfielder went 2-3 with a run scored in the first game vs. Eastern Connecticut State and was 1-2 in the nightcap of the twinbill.

For the season, the Boston Latin High School product is hitting .400 (8-20) to rank second on the squad and has started all 10 games she has appeared in after missing the season opener with an ankle injury. She owns a .450 slugging average to place her third for the Beacons and her .400 on-base percentage is the second-highest mark on the team. She has also smacked a double, while scoring two runs and driving in another on the season.

The left-handed hitter has already established a season career best in hits and owns a career batting average of .263 (15-57) with four doubles, five RBI and nine runs scored.

UMass Boston is currently 2-14 on the season, including a 0-4 mark in LEC play and will be in action again on Saturday, April 16 when it hosts LEC-for Rhode Island College in a doubleheader at 1:00 p.m. at the Clark Athletic Center on the campus of UMB.