Softball

March 15, 2007

FORT MEYERS, Fla.-Junior Amanda Misa corked a two-out single to right centerfield in the fifth inning, to lift the Post University softball team to a 2-0 win over the University of North Dakota. The Eagles dropped the first game of the day to Edinboro University, 3-0, as Edinboro scored three unearned runs in the fourth inning.

Against North Dakota, junior Caitlin McAveney kept the perennially top-25 team off the board through five innings, as the scored was tied at 0-0. McAveney would finish with a complete-game shutout allowing just three hits and no walks, while striking out five batters.

In the fifth, senior Priscillia Encarnacao drew a walk, and was lifted for freshman Amanda Prince as a pinch runner. Encarnacao went to second, when senior Shannon Firetto laid down a sacrifice bunt, and came home when Misa had the run scoring base knock. Misa finished the afternoon 2-for-3 with the game-winning RBI.

The Eagles added an insurance run in the seventh inning when junior Allison Williams ripped a single up the middle to plate junior Desere Obregon who pinch ran for senior Jackie Davis, who smacked a double, to put a runner in scoring position.

McAveney helped her cause going 1-for-3 at the plate.

In the first game of the afternoon Edinboro scored three unearned runs in the fourth inning to win the game 3-0.

Senior Megan Pappas was stellar, as she gave up three unearned runs on five hits and one walk. The senior struck out five batters, and also contributed at the plate, going 1-for-3. Sophomore Michelle Stotz also went 1-for-3 as well.

The Eagles conclude its trip to the "Sunshine State," on Friday morning with a pair of Northeast Region contests. Post will face Bentley College at 9 a.m., and St. Michael's College at 11 a.m.