Austin, Texas – Le Moyne College senior pitcher Alexis Eastman (Endicott, N.Y./Union-Endicott) has been selected to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Softball Third Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and announced on Wednesday afternoon.

An Accounting major with a 3.71 GPA, Eastman was selected to the Academic All-America® team for the first time in her career after being tabbed to the Academic All-District® First Team for the first time in mid-May. Eastman is the first Le Moyne pitcher to be recognized with Academic All-America® honors and just the third softball student-athlete overall to be honored (Courtney Case, second team in 2017 and Amy Glowacki, third team in 1991). Eastman is one of two pitchers selected to the third team and one of six pitchers overall.

Named to the NFCA East Region Second Team on May 9, Eastman went 20-8 with five saves, a 1.97 earned run average and a career-high 204 strikeouts over 188 innings pitched over 35 appearances, including a career high-tying 26 starts. The first Dolphin pitcher to earn all-region honors since Jenna Vanacore in 2009, she went the distance in 22 of her 26 starts and recorded five shutouts. A Northeast-10 Conference All-Conference First Team selection for the first time in her career after back-to-back second-team selections, she led the Northeast-10 in strikeouts (for the second straight year), tied for first in saves (third consecutive year with the most), second in complete games, third in victories, fourth in strikeouts per seven innings (7.60), fifth in shutouts and sixth in ERA. Nationally, she ranked 10th in saves, 23rd in strikeouts, 29th in strikeouts per seven innings and 36th in victories. On the program's single-season charts, her saves are tied for second, her strikeouts are third, appearances are tied for fourth, her strikeouts per seven innings rank fifth and her wins and complete games are tied for sixth. At the plate, she slashed .342/.375/.421 with 13 runs batted in, six doubles and six runs scored. She had eight multi-hit games, including a team-high two three-hit games.

The Division II Google Cloud Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2017-18 Division II Academic All-America® teams. CoSIDA, which began its recognition of NCAA scholar-athletes in the 1950's, has honored more than 15,000 deserving athletes across all divisions in 12 sports. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.