Senior Abrielle McCartney of the softball squad has been selected as the Peoples Natural Gas RMU Female Student-Athlete of the Week for May 1, 2019. McCartney hit safely in all six of the games for Robert Morris last week, hitting .524 (11-for-21) with seven runs, six RBI, three doubles and a pair of home runs. She connected for a grand slam in the first game of a doubleheader with LIU Brooklyn (4/27) at the North Athletic Complex, which came in the bottom of the seventh, tied the score, 10-10, and sent the game to extra innings. She finished the first game of the double dip with the Blackbirds 3-for-5 with three runs and four RBI. She also belted a solo home run to lead off game two of a 7-4 victory over Mount St. Mary’s (4/28). On the 2019 campaign, McCartney leads the Colonials with a .331 average and runs (28) and is tied for the team lead in RBI (23).
