Carol Andrews

#42 - OF, 2B (profile)

Carol has played softball for DRS ever since being hired by the agency in the early-1990s. She started off with the old Market Street Maulers and was with them for a couple years before becoming team captain. She then led the Maulers for four seasons before the team roster dwindled due to marriage, children, and audit travel, to the point where the club could no longer field a full team. Once the Maulers folded, following the 1997 season, Carol, along with Mike Malone, George Duggan, and Chris Radil, joined up with Team inDRStructible.

But Carol had played as a fill-in with DRS even prior to joining the team full-time in 1998. While still a Mauler, Carol played with the taxmen during the 1996 Easter Seals Softball Weekend, and in 1997, Carol’s Maulers and Jim Chakulski’s Team inDRStructible joined forces to field an all-DRS team in the annual Cove Cup Invitational. (In fact, it was Carol’s joining the taxmen in 1998 that allowed the tournament's automatic invitation to be extended to Team inDRStructible the following season, and the taxmen have continued to participate in the tourney every year since.)

Carol is one of only six players to have played a game with DRS in each of the team’s twelve seasons. A natural outfielder – she’s played more than three quarters of her games there – Carol has also been agreeable to playing wherever the team has needed help, be it at second base, catcher, and in rare instances, the pitcher’s mound.

Overall, Carol has played 126 games with DRS, which doesn’t even factor in the six-plus seasons with the Maulers. In those games, she’s accumulated 124 base hits (averaging nearly one a game), with 96 runs scored, 49 RBIs, 5 walks, 6 doubles, and a triple. This 2006 season was her best yet – she batted .556, the highest single-season average for any female player in team history.

Her best single game may well have been the 2006 season finale against the O’Brians Tax Evaders, in which she went 5 for 5, scored 3 runs, and had 4 runs batted in. Carol was also selected one of the team’s co-MVPS in the 2002 Rocky Hill Vets Tournament following a game against the New Britain Bar Association in which she went 4 for 4, scored 3 runs, and swatted a double and a triple.