In her first collegiate season, Emma Newton has become an anchor in the Cobras softball lineup through the season’s opening month. A four-year letter winner out of Williamsville High School in Sherman, Ill., Newton leads the Cobras in home runs (6), slugging percentage (.758), OPS (1.222), RBI (24) and tied for the team lead in extra-base hits (9) through 20 games played. Sporting a .419 average, the Cobra right fielder has a hit in 15 of 20 games this season including nine multi-hit games. Finding her power stroke midway through the team’s season-opening Florida trip, Newton popped her first home run of the season on March 14 versus Southeastern, and then proceeded to hit five more over the next 13 days including twice against Spoon River on March 27.
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