East Stroudsburg, Pa. - For the first time in recent seasons, East Stroudsburg University picked up a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference softball player of the week. Junior left fielder Ashley Miller earned the PSAC East Player of the Week after hitting .423 and driving in seven runs to help the Warriors have a 5-3 week of action.

Miller is the team's top hitter and a big part of the Warriors' enjoying its best season in four years. ESU stands 16-15-1 overall, the most wins since going 20-24 for the 2002 campaign. The Warriors sit 6-7-1 in the PSAC East and are 1 ½ games out of a potential PSAC playoff spot with 10 league games remaining on the schedule.

The junior from Harrisburg, Pa. lined 11 hits in 26 at bats over eight games last week. She scored six runs, drove in seven runners, lined four doubles and her third home run. Miller broke the ESU single season rbi mark with two in the doubleheader at Bloomsburg Sunday to give her 32 for the year to break Denise McKeown's 30 set back in 1990.

The Central Dauphin grad had three multi-hit outings including going four for four with a double, a home run and scored twice in the second game at Kutztown. For the season, she leads the team with a .396 average, 42 hits, 10 doubles, three home runs, 61 total bases, a .575 slugging percentage and four sacrifice flies.

Miller and the Warriors will next travel to Mansfield for a twinbill on Wednesday afternoon starting at 2:30 p.m