Bryce Hayes
LOUISVILLE, KY — Following a highly productive slate last weekend, Texas Lutheran junior Serena Gonzalez (Corpus Christi/Foy H. Moody) has been named the Louisville Slugger NFCA Player of the Week on Tuesday afternoon, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) announced.
The honor is the second career NFCA weekly award for the third-year Bulldog. Gonzalez was also named the NFCA’s national player of the week in April 2023.
During last week’s series against Schreiner, Gonzalez slashed .833/.778/2.000 in six official plate appearances. Three of her five hits went for extra bases – a double and two home runs – while she drove in 10 runs and totaled 12 total bases. Her six RBI performance on Sunday is the 11th in program history in which one player was responsible for at least six RBI in a single-game. She also drew a walk and was hit by a pitch and did not strike out at the dish during the series.
Gonzalez led a Texas Lutheran offense that outscored the Schreiner Mountaineers 30-0 on the weekend.
Against Schreiner on Saturday, April 12, Gonzalez did not record an official at-bat as she was walked and hit by pitch in game one but she did steal a career-high two bases, matching her career total entering the series opener. In game two, Gonzalez’s bat came alive as she finished a triple short of the cycle after going 3-for-3 with four runs batted in (RBI) and a run scored in Texas Lutheran’s 8-0, five-inning win over the Mountaineers. She went 2-for-3 with a home run and six RBI in the series finale. With Gonzalez’s homer on Sunday, she joined Haley Padilla as the only two members of Texas Lutheran’s 20 career home run club and her six RBI she brought her career total to 113, tying Nicole Snow for fourth all-time in program history.
Gonzalez and No. 6 TLU welcomes Dallas to Ed Kruse Stadium for the final home series of the 2025 regular season, April 17-18. The series opens with a doubleheader at 5 & 7 PM on Thursday, April 17 with the games being streamed on TLU+. All streaming and live stats links can be found on tlubulldogs.com.
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