Wednesday, April 13, 2005
MORAVIAN’S HENNESSY NAMED LOUISVILLE SLUGGER/NATIONAL FASTPITCH
COACHES ASSOCIATION DIVISION III NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK
STARKVILLE, MS --- Junior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township
HS) of the Moravian College softball team has been named Louisville Slugger/National
Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III National Player of the Week for her performance
last week.
Hennessy posted a 5-0 record last week including a 4-0 mark in Commonwealth
Conference action, three shutouts and her third no-hitter of the season to help the Greyhounds
post a 6-0 record last week. Moravian, ranked 18th in the nation in the 2005 National Fastpitch
Coaches Association Division III Top 25 Poll released last week, has won 16 straight games
and is now 22-3 overall and 6-0 in Commonwealth Conference action on the year.
Hennessy began the week with a 5-2 win versus Albright College that
included eight strikeouts. In the second game of the doubleheader, Hennessy tossed
her fourth career no-hitter, a 3-0 win, allowing just three walks while striking out seven
batters. Hennessy allowed a run and four hits while striking out ten batters
in a 4-1 win at Franklin & Marshall College. She finished the week with 12 innings
of scoreless ball at Messiah College. Hennessy limited the Falcons to
one hit and one walk while striking out eight batters in a 7-0 victory in the first game.
She followed that with an 8-0, five-inning two-hitter in which Hennessy allowed
two walks and struck out two. For the week, Hennessy allowed just 14 hits
and seven walks in 33 innings of action. She had 35 strikeouts and added 11 assists in
the field.
For the season, Hennessy is 15-2 with 2 saves and she has won 11 straight
decisions. She has nine shutouts, three no-hitters, four one-hitters and has allowed just
51 hits, 32 walks, 16 runs and nine earned runs in 125 innings. Hennessy has
also struck out 147 batters to raise her school record total to 479. Hennessy's three
shutouts this week improve her school record total to 28 in her career, and she has a 53-12
career mark with five saves.
Hennessy was named the Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III Player of
the Week once last season. Hennessy has earned the Eastern College Athletic
Conference Division III Southern Pitcher of the Week twice this spring, and she has been
named Commonwealth Conference Pitcher of the Week honors four times this season.
Moravian is slated to return to action on Thursday, April 14th in a non-conference doubleheader
versus Delaware Valley College in Bethlehem beginning at 3:00 p.m.
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