MORAVIAN'S BETH PALY & KRISTIE PELLICANI NAMED COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE
SOFTBALL PLAYER & PITCHER OF THE WEEK

ANNVILLE, PA --- Junior second baseman/shortstop Beth Paly (Whitehall, PA/Whitehall HS) and sophomore pitcher Kristie Pellicani (Sparta, NJ/Sparta HS) of the Moravian College softball team has been named the Commonwealth Conference Softball Player and Pitcher of the Week for their performances last week.

The duo helped tenth-ranked Moravian to a 3-0 record last week as the Greyhounds won their seventh consecutive Commonwealth Conference Tournament Championship. Moravian is now 32-5 on the season.

In Moravian’s opening game of the tournament, Paly, pictured at right, gave the Greyhounds a 3-1 lead in the fifth inning of a 3-2 victory over fourth seeded Messiah College with a two-run home run to left field. The homer was Paly’s fifth of the season and third against the Falcons. Paly then went two-for-three in the Greyhounds’ 2-0 victory over Elizabethtown College in a winner’s bracket game to advance to the championship game. Paly was held hitless by Messiah in a 5-0 victory in the title contest as the Falcons pitched around her and walked her once. Paly, who played at shortstop of the tournament, had five putouts and three assists while anchoring the Greyhounds in the middle infield.

Pellicani, who was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, tossed a one-hit, 2-0 shutout of Elizabethtown. She walked five and struck out six in her sixth shutout of the season. Pellicani, pictured at left, then tossed a four-hit, 5-0 shutout of Messiah in the championship game with one walk and five strikeouts. Pellicani also had two assists in the circle in each game as Moravian committed just one error in 21 innings in the tournament. Pellicani is 16-3 overall with seven shutouts this spring.

Moravian is scheduled to return to action on Thursday, May 10th at the 2007 NCAA Division III Regional at Montclair State University. The top seeded Greyhounds will play the winner of the fourth seed Ramapo College of New Jersey and fifth seed Gettysburg College at 4:00 p.m.