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MILLERSVILLE VS. LOCK HAVEN
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Millersville Marauders
Record: 11-8, 0-0
Coach: Jen Probst, 3rd season
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Lock Haven Bald Eagles
Record: 9-9, 0-0
Coach: Kelly Shannon, 9th season
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Game Information
Saturday, March 31, 2018, 1/3 p.m.
Series vs. Lock Haven: 15-38
Last Season Series: 0-2
Last Meeting: 2017; L, 2-6
Series Streak: Lock Haven, 3
Jen Probst vs. Clarion: 0-3
Location: Millersville, Pa. (Seaber Softball Field)
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ABOUT THE MARAUDERS
• Millersville looks to extend its undefeated home record in a doubleheader Saturday against Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Central Division opponent Lock Haven.
• The Marauders are returning from a record-breaking day in the 17-3 and 16-1 victories over Bowie State. Millersville broke the single-season record for home runs with 27. The team had 11 home runs in the doubleheader against the Bulldogs. Sophomore
Rebecca Blatt led the team in home runs with three.The seven hit in game one were a school record and the third-most in NCAA history.Â
• The Marauders are 11-0 when they score seven or more runs in a game.Â
• Freshman
Faith Willenbrock leads the team in batting average, hits, doubles, home runs, and slugging percentage.
• Willenbrock has an batting average of .492 while starting all 19 games this season in right field. Willenbrock boasts a slugging percentage of 1.000 and an on base percentage of .492. She has hit seven home runs, placing her first in the PSAC. She needs one more to break Millersville's single-season record.Â
• Willenbrock enters the weekend ranked first in the PSAC in slugging percentage and tied in third in runs scored (18). The freshman is also ranked seventh in batting average throughout the whole PSAC. Willenbrock's 30 hits ranks third in the PSAC.
• After a big day for Blatt at Bowie State, she moved into the PSAC lead in RBIs with 26.
• Another freshman,
Allie Janowiak, is leading the PSAC in runs scored (20) and is 10th in batting average. Janowiak has an average of .466 with 25 hits, three doubles, two triples and two home runs.
• The Marauders' six doubles against Virginia State are tied for the highest single-game performance in the PSAC this season. Also, the team has the highest stolen base total with 10 in the Bluefield State game. The seven home runs in game one against Bowie State are also a PSAC high.Â
• Millersville has a .336 team batting average for the second highest in the PSAC.
• Freshman pitcher
Catherine Johnson has stepped on the mound and claimed one of the starting pitcher roles. Johnson has a 3.47 ERA, 29 strikeouts in 42 1/3 innings pitched. Senior
Cassidy Pinchorski passed Laura Harris for career strikeouts with 306 when she struck out seven batters in the Bluefield State game. Pinchorski is now 22 strikeouts shy of breaking Brianna Andraos' record of 330. Sophomore
Emma Bevard is 3-0 in nine outings and has struck out 11 in 21 2/3.
LOCK HAVEN SERIES HISTORY
• The series dates back to 1979. This series is one of the longest rivalries in Millersville softball history.
• The Bald Eagles and the Marauders have faced each other 53 times with the favor going towards Lock Haven 38 times. The Bald Eagles knocked the Marauders out of the PSAC Tournament in 2016 with a 5-2 victory.
• Millersville's last win was in 2015 in the second game of the doubleheader when Brianna Andraos pitched a complete-game shutout in the 3-0 victory.
ABOUT LOCK HAVEN
• The Bald Eagles won six of 10 games down in the PFX Tournament trip. Lock Haven is on a two-game winning streak by defeating Slippery Rock 6-2 and 8-4.Â
• Lock Haven has lost eight games scoring fewer than three runs.Â
• Three batters are hitting .333 or higher. That group is led by Moriah Lindsey's .358. Lindsey had only three hits in the past 17 at-bats but still has an on base percentage of .443.
• Ranking second in batting average is Madison Mathes, who started the spring break having two hits each in the beginning five games. Recently, Mathes went 3 for 7 against Slippery Rock.
• Becca Caputo is the slugger of the group with four home runs, a .623 slugging percentage and an average of .311.
• Bekah Slattery is one of the most dominant pitchers in the PSAC with a .195 opponent batting average (second in PSAC) and a 1.33 ERA. Slattery has struck out 57 batters, third highest in the conference.