20 Jessica Furtado
Jessica Furtado
  • Height:
    5-7
  • Year:
    So.
  • Hometown:
    Taunton, Mass.
  • High School:
    Taunton
  • Position:
    C/INF
  • Major:
    Education

Bio

As a Freshman in 2010: Appeared in 41 games for the Ravens, including 39 starts...Tied for second in the Northeast-10 Conference in runners caught stealing (13)...Led the team in batting average (.321; 34-for-106), home runs (3), slugging percentage (.491), on-base percentage (.438) and walks (20)...Tied for the team lead in hit-by-pitch (2) and ranked second in runs batted in (20) and total bases (52)...Scored 13 times and stole two bases...Made her collegiate debut and went 0-for-2 with a walk against Grand Valley State on 3/13...Picked up her first career hit, run batted in and run scored when she went 1-for-2 with a double and two walks, drove in two runs and scored twice against Nyack on 3/15...Knocked 2-for-3 with a double, drove in two runs and scored once against St. Thomas Aquinas on 3/16...Went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk and drove in three runs against Philadelphia on 3/18...Clubbed 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, drove in two runs and scored once in the first game of a doubleheader at Saint Michael's on 4/3...Hit 2-for-4 with her first career home run, drove in two runs and scored once in the first game of a doubleheader against Saint Anselm on 4/8; hit 2-for-3 and scored a run in the second game...Slugged 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and drove in a run in the second game of a doubleheader at Pace on 4/10...Named to the Northeast-10 Conference Weekly Honor Roll for the week ending on 4/11...Went 1-for-4 with a home run in the front end of a doubleheader against Saint Rose on 4/19...Hit 2-for-4 with a home run in the first game of a doubleheader against Southern New Hampshire on 4/21...Knocked 3-for-3 and drove in a run in the first game of a doubleheader at Southern Connecticut State on 4/25...Named to the Northeast-10 Conference Weekly Honor Roll for the week ending on 4/25...Hit 2-for-3 with a walk, drove in a run and scored once in the second game of a doubleheader against Assumption on 5/1.
2010 Statistics

Jessica Furtado

Before Franklin Pierce: Four-time All-Conference selection at Taunton (Mass.) High School...Four-time All-Scholastic selection by both Taunton Daily Gazette and Brockton Enterprise...All-Scholastic selection by both Boston Globe and Boston Herald as a senior...Taunton Call Rookie of the Year as a freshman...Selected as a "Player to Watch" by Taunton Daily Gazette in each of her four years...Team captain as a senior...Played at the club level for Rhode Island Thunder and Taunton Dynamites...Also played basketball at Taunton.

Personal: Daughter of Liz and Wayne Furtado...Has an older brother, Josh, and an older sister, Jen...An education major and math minor.