TWO GREYHOUNDS & MORAVIAN SOFTBALL SQUAD RANKED IN FINAL NCAA STATISTICS RELEASE OF 2006 SEASON

INDIANAPOLIS, IN --- The Moravian College softball team is ranked nationally in four statistical categories and two different Greyhound players are ranked in five categories in the final NCAA Division III statistics ranking of the 2006 season.

Senior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township HS) (pictured at right) was ranked in four categories. Hennessy was third in earned run average at 0.66, tied for second in saves with five, tied for ninth in victories with 25 and 36th in strikeouts per seven innings with an average of 8.0.

Sophomore second baseman Beth Paly (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) (pictured below) was eighth in the nation in toughest to strikeout, striking out just twice in 148 at-bats.

Moravian was second in the country in ERA at 0.94, 20th in winning percentage at .804 (37-9), 28th in fielding percentage at .964 and 47th in home runs per game with an average of 0.57.

The Greyhounds won the team’s sixth straight Commonwealth Conference Tournament title and seventh straight Commonwealth Conference Championship and garnered the program’s ninth consecutive NCAA Division III Tournament appearance by winning the 2006 Commonwealth Conference Tournament. Moravian was the regional runner-up at the Salisbury Regional and completed the 2006 season with an overall record of 37-9, the third straight season with at least 37 wins. The Greyhounds have played in the regional championship game the last four years.