Wednesday, April 12, 2006

THREE GREYHOUNDS & MORAVIAN SOFTBALL SQUAD RANKED IN FIRST
NCAA STATISTICS RELEASE OF 2006 SEASON

INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- The Moravian College softball team is ranked nationally in six statistical categories and three different Greyhound players are ranked in six categories in the first NCAA Division III statistics ranking of the season for games through April 9th released late Tuesday.

Senior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township HS) is ranked in four categories. Hennessy is second in earned run average at 0.99, tied for fifth in victories with 14, tied for 14th in saves with two and 14th in strikeouts per seven innings with an average of 9.0. Sophomore second baseman Beth Paly (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) leads the nation in toughest to strikeout, striking out just once in 92 at-bats while freshman outfielder Erica Klepeisz (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth HS) is tied for 28th in hit by pitch per game at 0.19.

Moravian is eighth in the country in won-loss percentage at 0.99, tied for 16th in winning percentage at .846 (22-4), 32nd in batting average at .339, 32nd in home runs per game at 0.65, 41st in fielding percentage, .962 and 42nd in slugging percentage at .467.

The Greyhounds, who are now 24-4 overall, are slated to return to action on Friday, April 14th in a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader at Albright College in Reading beginning at 1:00 p.m.