The UW-Platteville softball team led all of NCAA Division III in home runs per game during the 2008 season, according to just-released final national statistics.
The Pioneers belted a school-record 49 home runs in 35 games, giving them 1.40 per contest. The Pioneers were third in the entire nation, trailing just Arizona (1.57) and Metro State (1.58), the Division I and II leaders.
Tera Burr ranked fourth in NCAA III with 12 home runs in 31 games (0.39), while Becky Swanson was 16th (0.3 per game), Lindsay Weigand 18th (0.29) and Katie Sutter 38th (0.25). Swanson, Weigand and Sutter all hit eight home runs during the season.
Burr, a junior second baseman from Shawano, also ranked ninth in the NCAA III with a 0.943 slugging percentage and was 15th in runs per game at 1.26.
The Pioneers were just ahead of UW-Whitewater in home runs per game. The Warhawks hit a national-leading 68 in 50 games, for 1.36 per contest.
Ironically, both UWP and UWW saw their averages dip when they faced each other in a doubleheader April 23. The two most prolific home-run hitting teams in all of NCAA Division III each hit just one home run in both games. The Warhawks swept the doubleheader 6-4 and 5-2.
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