Bloomsburg Wins Two at PSAC Softball Championships

SHIPPENSBURG—The Bloomsburg University softball team stayed alive at the 2005 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championships by winning two games on Friday. The Huskies beat IUP, 2-1, then downed Kutztown by a 3-0 score.

The wins also moved coach Jan Hutchinson to within three wins of 1,000 for her career.

In game one of the day against Indiana (PA), Sarah McDaniel (Dallastown/Dallastown) scored on Kelly Zarski's (Danville/Danville) single with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Bloomsburg a 2-1win. With one out in the bottom of the seventh, McDaniel doubled down the leftfield line and moved to third on a passed ball. After a ground out back to the pitcher, Zarski singled in McDaniel with the winning run.

Bloomsburg opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning when Amanda Breon (Bellefonte/Bellefonte) reached on an error and scored on a double by Dee Wolfe (Milton/Milton). IUP tied the score in the top of the sixth inning when Katey Reed singled and later scored on a hit by Sarah White.

Bloomsburg pitcher Amanda Smith (Sandy Ridge/Philipsburg-Osceola) picked up her second win of the tournament by going the distance and allowing just six hits and striking out five.

In the day's second game, the Huskies scored single runs in the first, fourth and fifth innings to back the one-hit pitching of Ashley Lynn (Riverside/Danville). The freshman fanned five and gave up just one walk to earn her seventh win of the year.

In the first, Bloomsburg scored when the Huskies put together three, two-outs hits from Wolfe, Sara Roba (Emmaus/Emmaus) and Laurel Koster (Whitney Point, NY/Cicero North) with Koster getting an RBI. In the fourth, Tiff Corliss (Lewisburg/Lewisburg) scored on a bases loaded single from Breon for a 2-0 lead. The Huskies final run came in the fifth when Tina Jennosa (Downingtown/Hauppauge) hit a sacrifice fly scoring Wolfe who had led off with a single.

Wolfe finished the game 3-4 with two runs scored, while Roba went 2-3.

Bloomsburg improves to 39-7 on the year, while Kutztown goes to 27-22. The Huskies will now face Lock Haven in an elimination game at 11 a.m. on Saturday.