SOUTH EASTON, Mass.  -  Bryant University senior third baseman Deidre Kittredge (Worcester, Mass. / St. Peter Marian) has been named the Northeast-10 Conference Softball Player of the Year as voted on by the 15 conference head coaches. 

Kittredge helped lead Bryant to a 25-15 overall regular season record including a 22-6 conference mark, good for third place in the Northeast-10 Conference standings.  She led the Bulldogs with a .421 batting average, 37 runs batted in, 13 doubles, four home runs, and 85 total bases.  She is the first Bryant position player to win a softball conference major award.  Bryant coach Lisa-Ann Wallace won coach of the year honors in 2002.   

Bryant also placed a total of eight players on the Northeast-10 All-Conference teams for 2005, including three earning first team honors.  Joining Kittredge on the first team this spring, was senior Carly Muise (Hanson, Mass.) and sophomore Lindsay Connor (West Haven, Conn.).  Muise hit .333 during the regular season with four doubles and two triples.  Connor was second on the team and in the conference with a .417 batting average and led the Northeast-10 with 59 hits and was fourth with 31 runs scored.

Junior catcher Jordan Dargon (Trumbull, Conn.), sophomore outfielder Briana Durborow (Ringoes, N.J.), and senior pitcher Diane Cummings (Westwood, Mass.) were all named second team all-conference by the Northeast-10.  

Earning third team all-conference honors were sophomore shortstop Amanda Wilbur (Lakeville, Mass.) and sophomore outfielder Amanda Gagne (Wilbraham, Mass.). 
Bryant, ranked No. 5 in the latest NCAA Regional Poll, is currently participating in the Northeast-10 Conference tournament this weekend in Syracuse, N.Y.