Softball Season Comes To A Close With Loss

KUTZTOWN--The Bloomsburg University softball team lost to Lock Haven 6-1 on Sunday in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional title game. The Huskies had reached the championship round with a 3-0 win over Kutztown earlier in the day.

Lock Haven took an early lead in the game jumping out in front 3-0 in the top of the first inning. Amanda Roosa hit an RBI double, while Roosa and Kristin Erb scored on Erica Eisenbise's double. Bloomsburg, which had runners doubled off and thrown out at the plate in the bottom of the first, made it 3-1 on Tiff Corliss' (Lewisburg/Mifflinburg) solo homer in the second. The Lady Eagles then put the game out of reach in the seventh scoring three unearned runs with the help of three errors and a two-run homer by Sarah Norris.

Kristin Erb (41-6), named the tournament's most outstanding player, allowed four hits and one run with seven strikeouts. Bloomsburg's Ashley Lynn (Riverside/Danville), 26-5, took the loss, allowing the three runs in the first inning. Sheelin Fisher (Coplay/Allentown Central Catholic) relieved and went the final six innings for the Huskies in the loss.

The Huskies made it to the finals with a 3-0 win over Kutztown earlier in the day. Lynn scattered five hits over seven innings for the shutout. Tara Reed (Williamsport/Williamsport) was 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI. Bloomsburg got on the board in the third when Lacy Mauro (Jersey Shore/Jersey Shore) walked and scored on Reed's double. Kutztown loaded the bases in the bottom of the third, but Lynn wiggled out of the jam by getting a two-out fly out.

Bloomsburg added a run in the sixth when Reed singled and scored on Mandy Koch's (Dauphin/Central Dauphin) double. Danielle Lazorka's (Williamsport/Jersey Shore) RBI single drove in Jess Rosin (Brooklyn, NY/James Madison) in the seventh. Kutztown got runners on first and second in the bottom of the seventh with one out, but Lynn induced a ground out and fly out to finish the Golden Bears.

Lynn was named to the All-tournament team as well as teammates Lazorka, Reed, Casey Massimini (Downingtown/Downingtown West) and Nikki Shiko (Kulpmont/Southern Columbia). Others named to the all-tournament team were Ashley Fitzgerald and Krista Cameron of Kutztown, Merissa Daley and Deanna Valentino of California (Pa.), Tara Colantuono of West Chester, and Hope Cornell of Shippensburg.

Bloomsburg ended the season at 51-11, two wins of the school record for victories (53) in a season, while tying the school record for games played in a season (62).

2008 NCAA Division II Mid-Atlantic Softball Regional All-Tournament Team