MORAVIAN’ S HENNESSY NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT FIRST TEAM

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Senior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township HS) has been named to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II College Division Softball First Team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

By making the All-District First Team, Hennessy is now forwarded onto the national ballot to try for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American® accolades, which will be announced on Wednesday, May 31st.

Hennessy has helped the Greyhounds win the team’s sixth straight Commonwealth Conference Tournament title and seventh straight Commonwealth Conference Championship and garner the program’s ninth consecutive NCAA Division III Tournament appearance last weekend by winning the 2006 Commonwealth Conference Tournament. Moravian, which is 33-7 overall, will be in action this coming weekend at an NCAA Division III Regional being hosted by Salisbury (MD) University. The Greyhounds, who are seeded fourth in the seven-team regional, will play fifth seeded King’s College at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 11th.

Hennessy, who is a two-time NFCA All-American making the first team in 2004 and the second team in 2005, is 22-5 in the circle this season with a 0.45 ERA, 14 shutouts, five saves, two no-hitters, 237 strikeouts and just 83 hits, 49 walks and 20 runs (13 earned) in 200 2/3 innings of action. Hennessy, who already owns every Moravian pitching record, is continuing to climb the NCAA Division III record books. She is 6th in career strikeouts with 834, 2nd in shutouts with 51, 7th in wins with 89, tied for 9th in career ERA at 0.86, 8th in innings pitched with 785.2, tied for 6th in complete games with 100, tied for 11th in games started with 109, and 13th games with 124. Hennessy, who has been the Commonwealth Conference Pitcher of the Week six times this season and was the Commonwealth Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player, has one hit at the plate this spring and has scored 11 runs.

Hennessy will now try to become the 32nd ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American in Moravian history and the 26th in the last 13 years.

To be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® honors, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.20 grade-point average, be a sophomore, junior or senior and be a starter or significant reserve.

The College Division is made up of all the NCAA Division II and III Schools in the nation as well as all NAIA schools. Student-athletes from NCAA Division I schools are named to the University Division Teams. District II is made up of schools from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.