Behrend Sweeps Franciscan to Clinch AMCC Regular Season Title
The Behrend Lions softball team captured the AMCC regular season
championship with 13-0 and 22-4 wins over the visiting Franciscan Lady
Barons. The blue and white remain undefeated in the AMCC with one game
to finish against Mt. Aloysius.
Behrend jumped on the Lady Barons in the bottom of the first
scoring six runs on four hits. Katie Whitby (Tyrone/Tyrone) led the inning
off with a single and was driven in by Amy Greene’s (Erie/Strong Vincent)
double. Julie Koman also doubled in the inning driving in two runs.
Maddie Wieser (Erie/Collegiate Academy) hit a three run homerun in
the second to put Behrend up by 10-0. Whitby singled in Kimmy Pol
(Erie/Central) who tripled earlier in the inning. The blue and white scored
one run in both the third and fourth to run the score to 13-0 ending the
game in five innings.
Koman got win number 12 on the year pitching three innings of two hit ball. Lara Frischkorn (Beaver Falls/Beaver Falls) pitched
two innings of relief not allowing a hit and sitting down four Franciscan
batters.
Amy Greene (Erie/Strong Vincent) went 3-for-4 for the blue and white scoring
twice and driving in one. Wieser homered and had four RBI. Koman would be a force at the plate
as well going 2-for-3 with three RBI.
Behrend found themselves down 2-0 going into the bottom of the
second of game two before they put up a seven spot. Wieser homered
to lead off the inning followed by four consecutive base hits put
Behrend up by one. Wieser added two more RBI in the second with a two
run single. Behrend did not look back from there tallying 24 hits and
22 runs to capture the AMCC regular season championship.
Behrend had seven players with multiple hits. Greene went 4-for-5 with four RBI and three runs scored. Wieser ended game two with two hits and four RBI. Both Pol and Nicole Ganster (Trafford/Penn-Trafford) had three hits apiece. Ganster also drove in three runs.
Wieser also picked up the win in game
two going two innings giving up two hits and two runs. Frischkorn
cleaned things up in the third and fourth before she gave way to Stacey
Peterson (Meadville/Cochranton) who pitched a clean fifth inning.
The Behrend Lions (28-5, 17-0) will travel to La Roche on April 25 to
complete their game against Mt. Aloysius. Behrend plays Grove City on April
28 at 5:00 p.m.