MORAVIAN’S MEAGAN HENNESSY AND RICHELLE MCWILLIAMS EARN ECAC SOUTHERN ALL-STAR HONORS

CAPE COD, MA --- Senior pitcher Meagan Hennessy (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Township HS) and senior designated player Richelle McWilliams (Riegelsville, PA/Easton HS) of the Moravian College softball team have been named to the 2006 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Southern All-Star First Team.

The duo helped the Greyhounds win 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.

Hennessy, who was named the Commonwealth Co-Pitcher of the Year and Rookie of the Year in 2003 and Pitcher of the Year the last two season, was 25-7 in the circle this season with a 0.66 ERA, 16 shutouts, five saves, two no-hitters, 267 strikeouts and just 115 hits, 53 walks and 30 runs (22 earned) in 234 2/3 innings of action. She was the ECAC Division III Southern Pitcher of the Year the last two seasons as well as earning a spot on the All-Star First Team. Hennessy finished her career with a 92-24 record and as one of the top pitchers in NCAA Division III history. Hennessy is ranked in the top 15 in shutouts with 53 which is second all-time, fourth in complete games with 105, fifth in strikeouts with 876, sixth in wins with 92, sixth in innings pitched with 819 2/3, tenth in games started with 114, tied for tenth in games with 129 and 14th in ERA at 0.91. Hennessy, who was the Commonwealth Conference Pitcher of the Week six times this season and was the Commonwealth Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player, had one hit at the plate this spring and has scored 11 runs.

McWilliams, who was on the Commonwealth All-Conference First Team and the ECAC Division III Southern All-Star First Team last season and the Commonwealth All-Conference Second Team in 2004, hit .344 with 42 hits, 24 RBIs, 11 runs, 12 walks, eight doubles and a team leading eight home runs as Moravian hit a school record 26 homers this spring. McWilliams finished her career second all-time with 23 career homers.

The complete 2005 ECAC Division III Southern All-Star Team can be found at http://www.ecac.org/feature/feature.asp?id=3306.