Sports News: Spring 2006
Wednesday, May 5, 2006

FOUR GREYHOUNDS & MORAVIAN SOFTBALL SQUAD RANKED IN FOURTH NCAA STATISTICS RELEASE OF 2006 SEASON

INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- The Moravian College softball team is ranked nationally in four statistical categories and four different Greyhound players are ranked in six categories in the third NCAA Division III statistics ranking of the season for games through April 30th released late Tuesday.

Senior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township HS) (pictured at right) is ranked in four categories. Hennessy is third in earned run average at 0.37, tied for second in saves with five, tied for 19th in victories with 19 and 27th in strikeouts per seven innings with an average of 8.6.

Sophomore second baseman Beth Paly (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) (pictured at left) is first in the nation in toughest to strikeout, striking out just once in 119 at-bats while freshman catcher/first baseman Sheri Bienick (Lumberton, NJ/Rancocas Valley HS) (pictured at bottom right) is ranked 35th with two strikeouts in 72 at-bats for an average of 36.0. Freshman outfielder Erica Klepeisz (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth HS) (pictured at bottom left) is 47th in hit by pitch per game at 0.14.

Moravian is second in the country in ERA at 0.85, tied for 16th in winning percentage at .833 (30-6), 38th in home runs per game at 0.61 and 31st in fielding percentage at .963.

The Greyhounds, who are now 30-6 overall, are slated to return to action on Friday, May 5th at the 2006 Commonwealth Conference Tournament. Moravian, the top seed for the fifth straight season, will play fourth seed and host Susquehanna University in the first game of the tournament at 11:00 a.m.