BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Alcorn State University softball program saw two of its own selected to the All-SWAC Teams as Amari Ramsey defended her preseason title as Player of the Year while Ambria Dorsey landed on the Second Team.
Ramsey, who will be returning to her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi for the conference tournament, has been bestowed her second career All-SWAC First Team honor and her first SWAC Player of the Year award.
The primarily third baseman leads the Lady Braves in batting average (.325), hits (26), runs scored (15), doubles (14) and total bases (42). Her current doubles total is the third-highest for a single season in program history, is ranked 19th in the NCAA and she's averaging the sixth-most doubles per game in the country at 0.54.
The Biology major who graduated on Saturday finished the regular season at tenth in the SWAC for slugging percentage (.539), won a SWAC Hitter of the Week award on March 13 and became the 15th Lady Brave to become a member of the 100-hit club during the annual River City Classic earlier this season.
Heading into the week, Ramsey is eighth on softball all-time hits list with 122, three behind Adriana Gutierrez for seventh (125), five back of Becky Mason for sixth (128) and trails Melissa Mason by eight for fifth (130).
Dorsey, originally from Phoenix, Arizona, is receiving her first All-SWAC recognition of her Lady Braves tenure in the pitcher's final campaign as she came back for one more ride as a graduate student for the 2021 campaign.
The chemistry major has seven of the team's ten wins on the season, going 7-4 over 14 appearances and nine starts while winning SWAC Pitcher of the Week on April 30.
She had a presence on the SWAC statistical leaderboards all year long, ranking third for strikeouts looking (19), fourth in wins (7), seventh in total strikeouts (38), eighth for batting average against (.284) and ninth for innings pitched (60.0).
During conference play, Dorsey was the rock atop the rotation as she topped the Purple and Gold with a 4.50 ERA, 42.0 innings pitched, 28 strikeouts, eight appearances, six starts, five wins and a batting average against of .267.
Whenever the 2021 season ends, Dorsey's name will be cemented in the record books as one of the best pitchers in school history. Over the course of the 26-game slate, she moved into third on the program's all-time strikeouts list (213), fifth in games started (57) and innings pitched (355.2) plus sixth for career wins (18).
Depending on how well the Lady Braves' run in the tournament goes, she has a chance to catch Cami Banks for fifth on the wins list (19) with one more victory.
Ramsey and Dorsey will look to lead the Lady Braves to its first SWAC Championship since 2010 this week, starting with a showdown against the West's #1 seed, Texas Southern, at 3 p.m. Tuesday.
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