BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

Topps finishes with

record-breaking season

Ann Marie Topps, a senior designated player for the University of Oregon softball team this season, broke the Ducks’ single-season home-run record with 19, while her 61 RBIs ranked No. 2 in school single-season annals.

Topps, the Newport-Mesa Player of the Year as a Costa Mesa High senior in 2003, started all 63 games for the Ducks, who were eliminated in the championship game of their NCAA regional by host South Carolina.

Topps, who had struggled to find playing time her sophomore and junior seasons after starting 32 games as a freshman in Eugene, hit .272 (47 for 173) with six doubles and a .636 slugging percentage for the Ducks in 2007.

Topps earned second-team All-Pac 10 honors and was also named second-team all-region.

Her 19th home run helped the Ducks beat South Carolina, 8-4, in the second game of the regional. But USC came back to win twice and eliminate the Ducks.

Topps finished her four-year career at Oregon with 93 hits in 374 at-bats (.249). She hit 24 homers and drove in 82 runs.

Her 19 homers this season broke the previous standard of 16, set by Andrea Vidlund in 2002.

Topps hit .429 with 19 homers and 89 RBIs in three varsity seasons at Costa Mesa. As a senior, she hit .507 with 11 homers, 41 RBIs and 22 of her 37 hits went for extra bases.

Vasquez, a senior infielder at the University of Wisconsin, hit a career-best .284 for the Badgers (27-20), in her final collegiate campaign. In 44 starts, Vasquez was 33 for 116 with 11 doubles, two homers and 23 RBIs.

For her career, Vasquez hit .220 with 116 hits in 528 at-bats. She had 24 doubles, two triples, nine homers and 62 RBIs. She also added five stolen bases.

Zoelle, a junior first baseman at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo., earned honorable mention in All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference voting.

She started 42 of the team’s 43 games and helped the Mavericks win the regular-season conference crown.

Zoelle, a transfer from Santa Ana Community College, hit .331 with six homers and 32 RBIs. She had two doubles, one stolen base and a .481 slugging percentage.

— Barry Faulkner