WC softball garners most all-conference players ever since joining OAC

The Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) announced their 2025 Softball All-OAC Teams and Special Award Winners this week, and the Wilmington Quakers had four athletes recognized.

This is the most All-Conference honorees the Quakers have had since joining the OAC in the fall of 2000 and is their most All-Conference athletes since 1995, when they were a member of the now-defunct Association of Mideast Colleges (AMC).

Earning First-Team honors and All-Conference recognition for the first time in her Quakers career is sophomore second baseman Jocelyn Franz. She becomes Wilmington’s first second baseman since 2021 (Alecia Kemp) to earn All-Conference honors and the first to ever be named First Team at second base in the OAC.

Franz (Olentangy Berlin HS/Delaware, Ohio) was in the Top 10 of the OAC in several different statistical categories this season. Her best mark was a tie for second in walks with 24. She tied for sixth in triples with three, was eighth in on base percentage (OBP) at .500, tied for ninth in runs scored with 35 and finished tied for 10th in stolen bases with 12.

She finished second on the Quakers with a 1.018 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS), tied for second with 58 total bases, third with a .393 batting average, and tied for third with 44 hits.

Freshman Haley Johnson was named both a Second-Team first baseman and the Co-Rookie of the Year in the conference with the University of Mount Union’s Allison Jones.

Johnson (Bethel-Tate HS/Wilmington, Ohio) is the first All-Conference first baseman for the Quakers since joining the OAC and the first one since Vicki Zunis did so in 1999 as a member of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC). She becomes just the second Rookie of the Year for Wilmington since joining the OAC, along with Arianna Layne, who accomplished the feat in 2021 as an outfielder.

She was tied for eighth in the OAC in both runs batted in (RBI) with 32 and walks with 16. She was also tied for ninth in OBP at .481. Johnson led the Quakers in hits with 46, home runs with three, total bases with 66, OPS at 1.065 and slugging percentage at .584, while also tying for the team lead with a .407 batting average. She tied for second with 113 at bats and tied for third with nine doubles and one triple.

Earning Second Team All-Conference honors for the second time during her Quakers career was senior Judaea Wilson. She becomes the first player at Wilmington to earn All-Conference honors as a shortstop since Hayley Suchland was an Honorable Mention in 2022. Wilson is the first Second-Team shortstop since Suchland earned the honor in 2021.

Wilson (Rutherford B. Hayes HS/Delaware, Ohio) was 10th in the OAC with 122 at bats this season and tied for 10th with 12 stolen bases. She was second on the team with 45 hits and 11 doubles, and third with 25 runs scored and 28 RBI.

Sophomore Kori Cornett earned Second Team All-Conference honors for the second season in a row.

Cornett (South Dearborn HS/Dillsboro, Ind.) tied for the team lead with a .407 batting average, was second with 26 runs scored and four hit by pitches, third with a .956 OPS, .475 OBP, and nine stolen bases, and was also tied for third with 44 hits.

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