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Augsburg's Tiffany Magnuson named to NFCA Division III All-Midwest Region third team

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MINNEAPOLIS (5/6/08) -- Augsburg College softball player Tiffany Magnuson (JR, Green Bay, Wis./Notre Dame Academy HS) was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III All-Midwest Region third team as an at-large selection, it was announced on Tuesday.

Augsburg's leadoff hitter, Magnuson hit .390 (53-of-136), with six doubles, five triples, two home runs and 12 RBI. She was second on the team in batting average, and led the team in both slugging percentage (.551) and on-base percentage (.461). She was 12-of-14 in stolen bases this season, one of four Auggies to have 10 or more stolen bases. Defensively, Magnuson played three positions for the Auggies this season -- first base, second base and pitcher -- and committed just four errors in 212 chances for a team-best .981 fielding percentage.

Pitching for the first time in her collegiate career, Magnuson appeared in 14 games as a reliever with a 3-0 record and 4.89 earned-run average. Pitching in 34.1 innings this season, Magnuson collected eight strikeouts against 16 walks, while allowing a .312 opponent batting average.

In her career, Magnuson is hitting .379 (132-of-348) with 74 runs scored, 17 doubles, 11 triles, three home runs and 30 RBI. She has a .517 slugging percenage and .446 on-base percentage, to go along with 42 stolen bases in 51 attempts. She has a .967 career fielding percentage, wtih just 17 errors in 515 defensive chances.

A two-sport athlete, Magnuson is a two-time All-MIAC first-team softball selection (one of only two 2007 MIAC sophomores to be named first-team All-MIAC in both 2006 and 2007) and a three-time All-MIAC first-team women's hockey selection (one of only three MIAC juniors to be named All-MIAC first team in 2006, 2007 and 2008). She was also named Augsburg's Women's Outstanding Athlete of the Year at the inaugural Auggie Awards in April.

Under second-year head coach Tim Gormley, Augsburg finished 20-23 overall and 15-7 in MIAC play in 2008, one of its most dramatic comeback seasons in school history. After finishing 4-34 last season and starting 4-14 this season, Augsburg won 16 of its final 25 games to reach the 20-win mark for the first time since the 1995 season (20-18) and just the ninth time in the last 30 years (since the 1979 season). Augsburg reached the MIAC postseason playoffs for the first time in the event's five-year history this year, while also reaching the postseason for the first time since 1984.

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