Wednesday, April 26, 2006
THREE GREYHOUNDS & MORAVIAN SOFTBALL
SQUAD RANKED IN THIRD NCAA STATISTICS RELEASE OF 2006 SEASON
INDIANAPOLIS,
IN --- The Moravian College softball team is ranked nationally in
four statistical categories and three different Greyhound players
are ranked in six categories in the third NCAA Division III statistics
ranking of the season for games through April 23rd released late
Tuesday.
Senior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold
Township HS) is ranked in four categories. Hennessy is
third in earned run average at 0.41, tied for third in saves with
four, tied for 41st in victories with 14 and 24th in strikeouts
per seven innings with an average of 8.8.
Sophomore
second baseman Beth Paly (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS)
is first in the nation in toughest to strikeout, striking out just
once in 105 at-bats while freshman outfielder Erica Klepeisz
(Nazareth, PA/Nazareth HS) is 33rd in hit by pitch per
game at 0.17.
Moravian
is ninth in the country in ERA at 0.98, tied for 26th in winning
percentage at .800 (24-6), tied for 42nd in home runs per game at
0.60 and 46th in batting average at .333.
The Greyhounds, who are now 26-6 overall, are slated to return
to action on Thursday, April 27th in a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader
at Albright College beginning at 3:00 p.m.
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