<p>Another week, another patch of games, another national honor for a Franklin College softball player.</p>
<p>This time, Morgan Burch is in the spotlight.</p>
<p>A sophomore outfielder, Burch has been named the to the Louisville Slugger National Fastpitch Coaches Association Weekly Honor Roll.</p>
<p>One of a handful of Franklin players who have received the same recognition this spring, Burch was selected after an eight-game stretch in which she hit .538 with a 1.038 slugging percentage.</p>
<p>She also drove in 15 runs and had seven extra-base hits, including two home runs, and hit for the cycle during a March 28 win against Berea College.</p>
<p>Burch’s explosive week was a microcosm of Franklin’s season, at least at the plate.</p>
<p>As a team, the Grizzlies are hitting .348 with a .497 slugging percentage. They have 76 extra-base hits, including 13 home runs, and have scored 168 runs.</p>
<p>Franklin’s top sluggers, in addition to Burch, are senior Katie Streuwing and juniors Megan Lalioff and Savannah Blevens.</p>
<p>A former Greenwood high school standout, Struewing is hitting .360 in a team-high 89 at-bats. She also has team-high totals of 30 RBIs and 13 doubles and is second in home runs with four.</p>
<p>Lalioff is the top overall hitter with a .477 average. Blevins is hitting .333 with a team-high five homes.</p>
<p>Franklin is 16-10 heading into Saturday’s doubleheader at Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference rival Manchester. The Grizzlies host Wilmington the following day for a nonconference doubleheader.</p>
<p><p style="text-align: left"><strong>Baseball</strong></p>
<p>Although the baseball team has struggled to find traction, freshman Jordan Clark has been a hit for the Grizzlies.A former standout at Connersville High School, the first-year outfielder is hitting a team-high .327 with team-leading totals of eight doubles, five home runs, 20 RBIs and seven stolen bases.</p>
<p>Clark is one of only three Franklin players hitting above .300. The others are sophomore Frank Podkul (.311) and freshman Mitchell Moore (.301).</p>
<p>Franklin takes a 9-15 record into tonight’s HCAC game at Rose-Hulman. The Grizzlies are looking to halt a three-game skid and, with 16 games remaining, turn their season around.</p>
<p><p style="text-align: left"><strong>Lacrosse leaders</strong></p>
<p>In only its second season as a varsity program, the Grizzlies’ women’s lacrosse team is 5-2 overall and leads the Ohio River Women’s Lacrosse Conference with a 3-0 league mark.Being in contention for the conference championships marks a dramatic turnaround from last season, when the Grizzlies finished sixth in the final ORWLC standings.</p>
<p>But even then, the Grizzlies showed potential of better things to come when seven players earned honorable mention All-Conference recognition.</p>
<p>Many of those same players are fueling the breakthrough season.</p>
<p>Franklin has won three of its past four matches heading into tonight’s showdown at Mount St. Joseph.</p>
<p>The Grizzlies’ to scorers on the season are junior Hannah Grow (29 points), senior Presleigh Hobbs (22), junior Lexi Ingram (21) and senior Paige Clark (21).</p>
