Sports News: Winter 2004-05

Friday, April 1, 2005

MORAVIAN’S HENNESSY NAMED ECAC DIVISION III SOUTHERN
PITCHER OF THE WEEK

CAPE COD, MA --- Junior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township HS) of the Moravian College softball team has been named Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Southern Pitcher of the Week for her performance last week.

Hennessy led the Greyhounds to a 4-0 record in non-conference action and helped the team extend its winning streak to six games. Moravian, ranked second in the nation in the 2005 National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III Preseason Top 25 Poll, is now 14-3 on the year.

Hennessy tossed her second career no-hitter and her first of the season while posting a 3-0 record with a save and two shutouts last week. Hennessy had a 0.40 ERA last week, allowing just two runs, only one earned, on seven hits and six walks while striking out 22 batters in 17 ½ innings. She now has 24 career shutouts, breaking Amy Croll’s record set between 1994 and 1997. Hennessy started the week with an 8-0, five-inning no-hitter of rival Muhlenberg College that included eight strikeouts. Hennessy closed out the doubleheader sweep with a victory in the second game, a 6-2 Moravian win. Hennessy allowed just one hit, her fourth one-hitter of the year, in a 9-0 victory over FDU-Florham that included nine strikeouts. Hennessy then came on to get the final out in the second game earning her second save of the season in a 5-4 victory. Hennessy also had two putouts and eight assists in ten chances in the field last week

Moravian is slated to return to action on Saturday, April 2nd in a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader versus Elizabethtown College beginning at 1:00 p.m. in Bethlehem.