Sports News: Spring 2002

Monday, March 11, 2002

MORAVIAN NAMES STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Senior Rachel Mowrey (Hellertown, PA/Saucon Valley HS) and sophomore Jessica Esposito (Madison, NJ/Madison HS) from the softball team, seniors Erin Boyle (Philadelphia, PA/Nazareth Academy HS) and Heidi Wolfsberger (Moosic, PA/Riverside HS), junior Jennifer Wagner (Riegelsville, PA/Wilson HS)< and freshman Heather McGarvie (Medford, NJ/Shawnee HS) from the women's indoor track & field squad and junior Bob Frey (Hellertown, PA/Saucon Valley HS) from the baseball team have been named the Moravian College Student-Athletes of the Week for their performances last week.

Mowrey, a pitcher, and Esposito, an outfielder, led the Greyhound softball squad to an 8-0 mark on the team's spring break trip with 4-0 record in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Mowrey< posted a 4-0 mark on the trip with a 1.08 earned runs average while tossing four complete games.  Mowrey< pitched 26 innings and allowing 18 hits, six runs and four earned runs and she has 16 strikeouts while walking none this season.

Esposito led Moravian at the plate where the Greyhounds are hitting .391 as a team and averaging 8.4 runs and 11 hits per game.  Esposito< is hitting .706 with 12 hits in 17 at-bats and she has added 11 RBIs, nine runs scored, two doubles, a triple and a homerun, one of seven Moravian hit on the trip.  Esposito< also has a 1.118 slugging percentage with 19 total bases on the year.  Moravian will return to action with four games at the Salisbury University Sea Gull Invitational in Salisbury, Maryland this weekend.

Boyle, Wolfsberger, Wagner and McGarvie earned All-American honors with a seventh place finish in the distance medley relay with a time of 12:16.46 at the NCAA Division III National Championships hosted by Ohio Northern University in Mount Ada, Ohio last weekend.  It is the second straight year that Moravian's distance medley relay team has received All-American accolades.  The Greyhounds tied for 51st of 59 schools that scored points in the event.

Frey, a first baseman, led the baseball team to a 4-5 record at the Eastern Mennonite Sarasota Spring Classic in Sarasota, Florida, last week.  Frey had the Greyhounds' top batting average of the week at .593 with 16 hits in 27 at-bats.  He had 17 RBIs, 11 runs scored, three doubles, nine walks and four homeruns.  Frey has now hit 12 homers in his Moravian career, one shy of the school record of 13 set by Jud Frank from 1991-1994.  The Greyhounds will return to action on Thursday, March 14th in a non-conference home game with Ursinus College beginning at 3:00 p.m.