Monday, June 21, 2004

MEAGAN HENNESSY, HEATHER BORTZ & MORAVIAN SOFTBALL TEAM
RANKED IN FINAL NCAA STATISTICS

INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- Two members of the Moravian College softball team and the squad itself are ranked in the final 2004 NCAA Division III statistics ranking of the season released Monday.

Junior shortstop Heather Bortz (Allentown, PA/Parkland HS) was 54th in batting average with a .448 average. Bortz, who was a First Team Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American, had a school record 74 hits in 165 at-bats.

Sophomore pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township HS) was 11th in saves at 3.0, 14th in victories at 22.0, a Moravian record, and 57th in earned run average at 1.18. Hennessy, who was also a First Team Louisville Slugger/NFCA All-American, allowed 31 earned runs in 184 innings with a school record 11 shutouts this past spring.

The Greyhounds were third in the country in winning percentage at .870 and sixth in fielding percentage at .971.

Moravian, which was ranked second in the final National Fastpitch Coaches Association of America Top 25 poll, posted a 40-6 record this season and the team’s first-ever NCAA Division III World Series appearance as the Greyhounds finished as the national runners-up. Moravian has won at least 23 games in each of the last 11 seasons and broke the school record for wins in a season by any sport this year. Moravian was also 14-0 in the Commonwealth Conference regular season. The Greyhounds, which have won over 30 games six times under head coach John Byrne including the last four years, were in the NCAA tournament for the seventh straight year and the postseason for the tenth consecutive season.