Nittany Lions Softball team wins seventh conference title since 2013
The 宾州州立银行 Softball Team defeated top seed Penn College, 5-3, to win the United East Championship on Sunday, 5月8日, 2022年榆树公园.
威廉斯波特, PA - The 宾州州立银行 Softball Team defeated top seed Penn College, 5-3, to win the United East Championship on Sunday, 5月8日, 2022, 进入NCAA锦标赛, which is a field of 62 teams out of 400 schools that offer softball. 史密斯对此, who stepped it up to another level in the circle and at the plate, was named the United East Tournament MVP.
The Nittany Lions (26-11) needed to go through two teams they struggled against if they wanted to earn the conference hardware. 伯克记下了No. 2 seed Penn State Harrisburg earlier in the day, then got the best of the Wildcat team that had swept them last Saturday.
在冠军赛中, Berks scored a run in the top of the second inning with an RBI by Hayden Perrone, but Penn College countered with one run of their own. Perrone had an RBI in the fourth to score 史密斯, who had a single to lead off the inning. Two batters later, Susan Duncan singled to center to bring in Veronica Maryanski and Perrone. The Nittany Lions later loaded the bases with just one out, but Kyla Benner worked out of the jam with a pair of strike outs.
Penn College cut the lead in half with a run in the bottom of the fifth, making it 4-2. 在第七局的顶部, 史密斯 doubled to leadoff the inning and advanced to third after a pair of outs. Perrone again came through with a clutch two-out single to center field to score 史密斯 and add an insurance run.
The Wildcats got the leadoff runner on with a walk and she moved up to second on a stolen base and a sacrifice bunt moved her to third. The next batter singled up the middle to bring in the run and make it 5-3. 史密斯 forced the next batter to hit into a fielder's choice as the middle infield got the lead runner at second for the second out of the inning. A two-out single gave the Wildcats the tying run on first base and the go-ahead run at the plate. But it would not matter as 史密斯 induced a groundout to Savannah Wilson at shortstop.
进入锦标赛, the team knew it was going to take a team effort to win and that is what they received. 在冠军赛中, the 5-through-9 hitters in the order combined to go 11-for-19 with three RBI and all five runs scored. 史密斯 finished the game 4-for-4 with a double and three runs scored, while Perrone was 2-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored. Maryanski (run) and Wilson each went 2-for-4, while Naomi Fay was 1-for-3. Duncan was 1-for-5 with the two runs batted in, while Arizona Shreck and Peyton Vivian both went 1-for-3.
史密斯, pitching in back-to-back starts for the first time this season, carried the momentum over from her complete-game, 在揭幕战中被淘汰. The junior right-hander allowed 11 hits and three runs, while striking out four in 7.0局工作. 在第一局, she worked out of a one-out jam with runners on second and third with a pair of ground outs to leave the runners stranded. 她没有打出任何1-2-3局, but what she did do was limit the damage by making the Wildcats strand 10 runners.
史密斯's all around effort made her the obvious choice for MVP. 在圆圈里, 她在两局比赛中以2比0领先, 一个完, 三分失分, 14场比赛中有9次三振出局.0局工作. At the plate, she was 7-for-8 with two doubles, and five runs scored.
The 宾州州立银行 softball team will face Endicott College at the Salisbury Regional Tournament beginning on Friday, 5月13日. 回头看看 伯克体育网站 for more information about the NCAA Tournament after information is released.
