S O F T B A L L
SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY RED FLASH 7-8
vs
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY ANTELOPES 12-5 Stapleton-Pierson Stadium • Tempe, Ariz.
SCHEDULE/RESULTS
TODAY’S GAME NOTES The Saint Francis softball team continues its Spring Break trip with a midweek doubleheader against Grand Canyon. The Red Flash went 1-3 this past weekend at the Diamond Devil Invitational, hosted by No. 19 Arizona State, but competed well against a couple of the top teams in the nation, ASU and No. 21 Minnesota. This weekend, SFU is scheduled to play in the Arizona Wildcat Invitational, beginning on Friday with games against No. 10 James Madison and UTEP. On Saturday, SFU battles Mount St. Mary’s at 1 p.m. and No. 15 Arizona at 6 p.m. Smashing Seneca Sophomore shortstop Jordan Seneca won NEC Player of the Week for the second straight week after hitting three home runs, including a grand slam, and driving in eight runs. Seneca hit two home runs in a 12-9 loss against Arizona State on Saturday. She hit a solo home run to center in the fourth inning, before launching a grand slam in the sixth inning. She followed that performance with a three-run homer against Mount St. Mary’s on Sunday.
Lauthers, Norton Honored by NEC Junior pitcher Blaire Lauthers and freshman Hayley Norton joined Seneca to sweep the NEC Weekly Awards. Lauthers threw four innings to earn the win against Mount St. Mary’s. She allowed only one run, unearned, on four hits, while striking out one and walking one. Norton continued an impressive rookie campaign with two home runs and four RBI this past weekend, with at least a hit and an RBI in the last three games. Norton hit a home run in each game Sunday against Mount St. Mary’s and Arizona State. She scored three runs against The Mount. Scouting the Antelopes Grand Canyon enters the doubleheader with a 12-5 record, including a 9-2 mark at home. Six Antelopes have a batting average over .400, with Nicole Newbury and Camree Wartmen leading at .483.
Seneca leads the team in batting average (.404), hits (19), doubles (4), home runs (6), RBI (24) and slugging percentage (.872). Through 15 games, Seneca has six multi-hit performances and six multi-RBI games. She had five RBI in wins over UNC Wilmington and UMass and the loss against ASU, with homers in all three games. She also homered against Eastern Kentucky. Seneca is tied for ninth in Division I in home runs and sixth in RBI. Sophomore Jordan Seneca NEC STANDINGS (Through February 28, 2016) School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral 1. Saint Francis 0-0 .000 7-8 .467 L1 0-0 2-3 5-5 2. Wagner 0-0 .000 2-3 .400 L2 0-0 0-0 2-3 3. Central Connecticut St. 0-0 .000 2-5 .286 W1 0-0 1-2 1-3 4. LIU Brooklyn 0-0 .000 4-11 .267 L5 0-0 0-1 4-10 5. Robert Morris 0-0 .000 3-10 .231 L5 0-0 1-2 2-8 6. Sacred Heart 0-0 .000 1-4 .200 L4 0-0 0-3 1-1 7. Fairleigh Dickinson 0-0 .000 0-4 .000 L4 0-0 0-3 0-1 8. Sacred Heart 0-0 .000 0-5 .000 L5 0-0 0-0 0-5 9. Wagner 0-0 .000 0-5 .000 L5 0-0 0-1 0-4
FEBRUARY Fri. 12 at UNC Wilmington . . . . . . . . . .W, 11-0 (5) Fri. 12 vs. Army West Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . W, 8-5 Sat. 13 vs. Eastern Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 4-3 Sat. 13 vs. Army West Point . . . . . . . . . W, 10-2 (6) Sun. 14 vs. Eastern Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 6-4 Fri. 19 vs. UMass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W, 13-6 Fri. 19 vs. Bucknell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 5-3 Sat. 20 vs. UMass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 3-0 Sat. 20 at East Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W, 7-2 Sun. 21 vs. UMass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W, 8-0 Sun. 21 at East Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 8-5 Sat. 27 vs. #20 Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 9-2 Sat. 27 at #17 Arizona State . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 12-9 Sun. 28 vs. Mount St. Mary’s . . . . . . . . . W, 10-1 (5) Sun. 28 at #17 Arizona State . . . . . . . . . . L, 11-3 (5) MARCH Wed. 2 vs. Grand Canyon (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 p.m. Fri. 4 vs. #19 James Madison . . . . . . . . . . 11 a.m. Fri. 4 vs. UTEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 p.m. Sat. 5 vs. Mount St. Mary’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 p.m. Sat. 5 at #9 Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 p.m. Sat. 12 CORNELL (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 p.m. Sun. 13 CORNELL (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 p.m. Fri. 18 vs. Canisius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:15 p.m. Fri. 18 vs. Cornell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30 p.m. Sat. 19 vs. Cornell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:30 p.m. Sat. 19 at George Mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. Sun. 20 vs. Georgetown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:15 p.m. Thurs. 24 LAFAYETTE (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 p.m. Tues. 29 at Marshall (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 p.m. APRIL Sat. 2 at LIU Brooklyn* (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 p.m. Sun. 3 at Wagner* (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 p.m. Tues. 5 at Maryland (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 p.m. Sat. 9 CENTRAL CONN ST* (DH) . . . . . . 1 p.m. Sun. 10 FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON* (DH) . . 12 p.m. Wed. 13 at Pittsburgh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 p.m. Sat. 16 at Sacred Heart* (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 p.m. Tues. 19 Staff BUCKNELL (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 p.m. Coaching Head Coach . . . . . . . . .BRYANT* . . . . . . . . . . (DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Patrick-Swift Sat. 23 1 p.m. Alma Mater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Methodist ’04 Sun. 24 MOUNT ST. MARY’s* (DH) . . . . . 12 p.m. Career Record / Season. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138-119-1 / Sixth Wed. at . .Penn . . . 5/p.m. Record at27 SFU / Season . . . . .State . . . . . .(DH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45-54 Second MAY Assistant Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Swift Sun. 1 at . . . . . 12’05p.m. Alma Mater / Season . . Robert . . . . . . . Morris . . . . . . . (DH)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chowan / First Thu-Sat. 12-14 NEC Championship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBA Assistant Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Patrick
SOFTBALL GAME DAY f TEAM COMPARISON
SAINT FRANCIS ROSTER
SFU GCU # Name OFFENSE 3 Melanie Martire Batting Average .285 .402 4 Kate Blattenberger Hits 109 198 5 Sierra McKee Runs Scored 96 131 6 Brandi Dalious Runs Batted In 86 122 7 Halle Marion Stolen Bases 8 10 8 McKenzie Burge Doubles 21 42 9 Hayley Norton Triples 5 3 10 Cheyenne McKee Home Runs 12 16 11 Kassidy Troxell DEFENSE 12 Jordan Seneca Fielding Percentage .931 .960 13 Kelsie Marconi Putouts 275 318 14 Ketarah DeVries Assists 119 144 15 Ethel Santai PITCHING 17 Aly Ramsaier Earned Run Average 4.12 3.43 18 Mikayla Bower Batting Average Against .291 .273 19 Blaire Lauthers 20 Alexis Bower 21 Madison Cabell 22 Kindra Witthus COACHING STAFF Head Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Patrick-Swift (Methodist ‘04) Head Coach SFU Record/Years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111-107 (Fifth Year) Assistant Coaches Assistant Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Swift (Fourth Year) Davina Kachnovitz (First Year) Volunteer Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Patrick
RED FLASH TEAM LEADERS HITTING Batting Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan Seneca (.404) Runs Scored. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sierra McKee (16) Hits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan Seneca (19) Home Runs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan Seneca (6) Runs Batted In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan Seneca (24) Slugging Percentage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan Seneca (.872) On-Base Percentage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kindra Witthus (.636) PITCHING Earned Run Average. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blaire Lauthers (2.63) Wins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blaire Lauthers (3) Innings Pitched. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ethel Santai (29.1) Strikeouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ketarah DeVries (23) Batting Average Against. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ketarah DeVries (.265)
SAINT FRANCIS QUICK FACTS
Location. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loretto, Pa. Founded. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847 Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red & White Enrollment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,668 Nickname. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Flash Stadium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Flash Softball Field President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Malachi Van Tassell, T.O.R., Ph.D. Director of Athletics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob Krimmel Deputy Director of Athletics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erika Renwick Senior Assoc. AD/Marketing & Communications. . . . . . . . . . Jim Brazill Assoc. AD/Academic Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Krimmel Asst. AD/ Facilities & Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A.J. Anderson Asst. AD/Compliance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Cavooris
Yr. C/3B OF C/OF OF/3B OF UT OF SS 3B SS OF P P INF P/UT P INF/P INF C/INF
Pos. Fr. Sr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr. So. Jr. R-Jr. Jr. Sr. Fr. Jr. Jr. So. Jr.
Ht. 5-4 5-8 5-6 5-5 5-4 5-4 5-8 5-6 5-8 5-8 5-3 6-0 5-8 5-4 5-6 5-9 5-8 5-9 5-6
B/T R/R R/R R/R R/R L/R L/L L/L R/R R/R R/R L/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R
Hometown/High School Herndon, Va./Herndon Martinsburg, Pa./Central DuBois, Pa./DuBois Harrington, Del./Polytech Middletown, Pa./Middletown Osceola Mills, Pa./Phillipsburg-Osceola Spring Grove, Pa./Spring Grove DuBois, Pa./DuBois Navarre, Ohio/Perry New Kensington, Pa./Plum Lowber, Pa./Yough Forreston, Ill./Forreston Pine Grove, Pa./Pine Grove Area Mesa, Ariz./Mountain View Williamsport, Pa./Williamsport Doylesburg, Pa./Fannett-Metal Cogan Station, Pa./Williamsport Area Ivor, Va./Southampton Hudson, Wis./Hudson
Jennifer Patrick-Swift (Methodist ’04), Fifth Season Patrick Swift, Davina Kachnovitz, John Patrick
By Class Seni or Kate Blattenberger, OF Aly Ramsaier, INF Redshirt Junior Ketarah DeVries, P
By Position
Pitcher 14 Ketarah DeVries, R-Jr, R 15 Ethel Santai, Jr, R 18 Mikayla Bower, Fr, R 19 Blaire Lauthers, Jr, R 20 Alexis Bower, Jr, R Catcher 3 Melanie Martire, Fr, R/R 5 Sierra McKee, Fr, R/R 22 Kindra Witthus, Jr, R/R
Junior Alexis Bower, INF/P Blaire Lauthers, P Kelsie Marconi, OF Ethel Santai, P Kindra Witthus, C/INF
Infield 1 Jordan Seneca, So, R/R 3 Melanie Martire, Fr, R/R 6 Brandi Dalious, Fr, R/R 10 Cheyenne McKee, Fr, R/R 11 Kassidy Troxell, Fr, R/R 17 Aly Ramsaier, Sr, R/R 20 Alexis Bower, Jr, R/R 21 Madison Cabell, So, R/R 22 Kindra Witthus, Jr, R/R
Sophomore Madison Cabell, INF Jordan Seneca, SS Freshman Mikayla Bower, P/UT McKenzie Burge, UT Brandi Dalious, OF/3B Halle Marion, OF Melanie Martire, C/3B Cheyenne McKee, SS Sierra McKee, C/OF Hayley Norton, OF Kassidy Troxell, 3B
Outfield 4 Kate Blattenberger, Sr, R/R 5 Sierra McKee, Fr, R/R 6 Brandi Dalious, Fr, R/R 9 Halle Marion, Fr, L/R 13 Kelsie Marconi, Jr, L/R 24 Haley Norton, Fr, L/L Utility 8 McKenzie Burge, Fr, L/L 18 Mikayla Bower, Fr., R/R
ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS Softball Contact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Marboe Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814-472-3916 E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Automated ScoreBook Overall Statistics for Saint Francis (as of Feb 28, 2016) (All games Sorted by Batting avg) Record: 7-8 Home: 1-0 Away: 2-3 Neutral: 4-5 Conference: 0-0 Player
avg gp-gs
ab
r
15 7 12 16 5 8 11 2 3 2 1 5 2 7 0
Seneca, Jordan Cabell, Madison Norton, Hayley McKee, Sierra Troxell, Kassidy Witthus, Kindra McKee, Cheyenne Burge, McKenzie Ramsaier, Aly Blattenberger, Kate Bower, Mikayla Bower, Alexis Martire, Melanie Marconi, Kelsie Lauthers, Blaire
.404 .393 .354 .320 .303 .273 .267 .259 .176 .143 .143 .135 .000 .000 .000
15-15
1-1
47 28 48 50 33 22 45 27 17 14 7 37 7 1 0
Totals
.285
15
Opponents
.291
15
13-12 15-15 15-15 13-10 15-15 15-14 12-11 7-5 12-8 4-2 13-13 4-2 7-1
h 2b 3b hr rbi tb slg% bb hp so gdp ob% sf sh sb-att
19 11 17 16 10 6 12 7 3 2 1 5 0 0 0
4 3 3 3 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 24 41 .872 1 9 17 .607 4 19 38 .792 0 8 21 .420 0 3 10 .303 0 4 8 .364 1 5 20 .444 0 3 8 .296 0 3 3 .176 0 2 2 .143 0 0 1 .143 0 6 7 .189 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 .000
11 13 7 10 4 13 2 3 1 2 1 7 1 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
2-3 1-1 1-1 1-2 0-0 2-3 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0
po
a
e fld%
31 31
5 .925
0 10 0 4 5 8 0 6 0 5 9 2 2 8 1 5 0 4 3 3 0 1 0 7 0 3 1 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
.517 .571 .483 .433 .378 .636 .327 .355 .222 .368 .250 .261 .125 .500 .000
383 96 109 21 5 12 86 176
.460 75 21 66
2
.425 3 6 8-13
395 74 115 28 1 11 65 178
.451 54 4 44
2
.380 2 7 17-22 283 128 20 .954
4
9
3 .813
20
1
0 1.000
19
1
1 .952
4 12
0 1.000
55
7
4 .939
18 19
5 .881
58
0
1 .983
14
6
3 .870
8
0
0 1.000
0
0
0 .000
38
6
1 .978
1
2
1 .750
0
0
0 .000
1 10
1 .917
275 119 29 .931
LOB - Team (110), Opp (113). DPs turned - Team (2), Opp (4). CI - Team (0), Opp (1). IBB - Team (0), Opp (1).
(All games Sorted by Earned run avg) Player
Lauthers, Blaire DeVries, Ketarah Santai, Ethel Bower, Alexis Bower, Mikayla
era w-l
app gs cg sho sv
ip
h
r
er
bb
so
2b 3b hr b/avg wp hp bk sfa sha
2.62 3.50 4.06 6.86 7.00
3-2 1-1 2-3 1-2 0-0
8 8 9 5 2
3 2 6 4 0
0 1 1 1 0
0/0 1/1 0/1 0/0 0/0
0 1 0 0 0
24.0 20.0 29.1 16.1 2.0
28 22 38 23 4
13 9 10 6 5 17 10 13 23 4 25 17 15 6 10 17 16 15 9 8 2 2 1 0 1
0 0 1 0 0
0 6 4 1 0
.272 .265 .297 .324 .400
1 5 0 1 0
0 1 2 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 0
0 2 3 2 0
Totals
4.12
7-8
15 15
3
2/1
1
91.2
115
74
54
54
44
28
1
11
.291
7
4
0
2
7
Opponents
5.71
8-7
15 15
2
1/0
2
94.1
109
96
77
75
66
21
5
12
.285
9 21
2
3
6
PB - Team (5), Witthus, K. 5, Opp (9). Pickoffs - Team (1), Witthus, K. 1. SBA/ATT - Witthus, K. (17-22), Lauthers, B. (6-9), Santai, E. (5-6), Bower, A. (3-4), DeVries, K. (3-3). SFUATHLETICS.COM
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