Three members of the Simpson College softball team landed on American Rivers Conference all-conference teams, as announced by the league office on Thursday.
Ashlyn Steen was named to the first team, while Maddie Luderman and Alexis Ehlers garnered second team accolades.

Steen led the conference with 145 at-bats, producing 56 hits to rank second in the conference. She recorded at least one hit in 31 of her 40 appearances and ended the season with a 20-game on-base streak. Steen collected 17 multi-hit games to lead the team and accounted for three of the team’s six four-hit games. The speedy outfielder also led the conference in stolen bases, nabbing 28 bags on the year. Steen batted .386 on the year to rank third on the team, also leading the team in runs with 36. She also was extremely valuable defensively for the Storm, saving multiple runs while collecting a .968 fielding percentage.

Ehlers erupted offensively in her second season, leading the team in batting average with a mark of .419 while driving in 40 RBIs and smacking nine home runs. Ehlers ranked in the top three in the conference in a multitude of categories, including all three above. She also ranked in the top three in slugging percentage (.729), hits (54), and OPS (1.190). She had 13 multi-RBI games to lead the team, driving in four RBIs two separate games.

Luderman had a historic year, highlighted by tying the Storm single-season record for RBIs with 45. Luderman produced a slash line of .395/.474/.791, with all three marks ranking inside the top 10 in the conference. After blasting 12 home runs on the year to tie for the conference lead, Luderman is now tied for second all-time in Storm history for career home runs with 25.

*from Simpsonathletics.com