ART U Softball outfielder
Haily MacDonald earned both Tournament of Champions All-Tournament Team as well as
PacWest Co-Player of the Week for an impressive seven-game stretch. Guiding the Urban Knights to their best collective result to date in the Tournament of Champions, she hit .560 with 10 stolen bases, six runs batted in, and her first career grand slam.
After one stolen base in each of the Mar. 27 games, MacDonald did something no Urban Knight has ever done before, swipe five bases in a single game
against Simon Fraser on Mar. 28. She was 1-for-2 in the contest and reached base in a variety of ways, being hit by a pitch in the first, reaching on an error in the fifth, and hitting an infield single in the sixth. On each occasion, she stole at least one base with two coming on her first and final times aboard. MacDonald scored two of ART U's seven runs in a 7-2 victory over SFU. Later that evening, she would then go 1-for-4 with another run scored in a
close 3-1 loss to Montana State-Billings.
On the final day of the tournament, Academy of Art drew Chaminade and one of the biggest moments of MacDonald's career came as part of her 2-for-3 performance. After the Knights had built a 5-0 lead in the first inning ignited by her walk, steal, and score, she stepped into the batter's box in the top of the fifth with the bases loaded. MacDonald, on the first pitch she saw, sent the softball beyond the right field fence for an
emotional grand slam that would help ART U end it early, winning 13-3 in six innings. It was the first grand slam of her career and her second home run in an Academy of Art uniform. In a
rematch against Western Oregon less than an hour later, MacDonald would go 1-for-3 with another steal to give her 12 in her past 14 games.
