Senior Day and our last conference games

Well this week had its ups and downs. Wednesday was our senior day. We have 8 seniors on the team so it was a pretty big deal. We lost the 1st game but came back and won the 2nd. LVC was ranked 23rd in the country, so splitting with them was very good for our team. Below are some of the pics from senior day.

These are all of the seniors, and behind them is a poster we spray with all of their numbers on it.

This is the whole team behind our dug out.

This is Brennan hugging coach when her name got announced.

2 of our seniors, Sara and Shelly are standing on the line with their parents next to them.

Yesterday we had our last games against a conference team, Moravian. We lost both games and we only needed to win won to secure home field advantage during playoffs. But we will be at Moravian this upcoming weekend for playoffs and hopefully we can come back and win. 

The good and the bad.

So on the good side, we swept Drew this past weekend. Both of our pitchers pitched shut outs, meaning the other did not score in either game. On the bad side, we earned a split against Scranton. We are now 9-1 in the conference and 26-6 overall. Moravian is also 9-1 in the conference so the number 1 seed is going to be determined this weekend when we play Moravian. Below are pictures from the past 4 games.

Lisa Finizio batting

Cara Swerdlow pitching

Today is our senior day, games against Lebanon Valley. Stay tuned to see how we do today and this weekend.

Rain, rain and more rain.

This week we only had two games and we won both, improving our record to 21-5. The games were against Wilkes. Our other double header was supposed to be against conference opponent, Drew, but because of the rain, those games had to be postponed. Our field is never going to be dry, and there is even more rain in the forecast. We are going to have a lot of games in the upcoming weeks.

A picture taken of Drew's field after all the rain that fell.

We might have to play these games on Easter Monday, but I really hope we don't because that means we will get no Easter break at all. We are supposed to have two conference double headers this upcoming week against Juniata and Scranton. Drew's games might be in there too so we are going to have to work hard this week to a playoff bid which we are close to being 4-0 in conference play thus far.

11 in a row, but nothing lasts forever.

The SU softball team suffered its first loss in 11 games on monday against Elizabethtown. We won the first game 3-0 due to a rally in the 6th inning which scored 3 runs. We lost the second game 5-4 , dispite a last effort in the 7th inning where we scored 2 runs to come within one but it just wasn't enough. I think it is a good thing that we lost. Last year we had a win streak of 19 games and when we lost we did not know what to do. So I think losing will make us better in the end. We have a double header against Wilkes today and one against Drew on Saturday. Stay tuned to see how we bounce back.

make that 10 in a row.

Today, the SU softball team improved its record to 18-4 and increased its win streak to 10 with a two game sweep of Gettysburg. We only won the first game 1-0 even though we had eight hits through out that game. Our bats really came alive in the second game which we won 7-2. Our ace pitcher, Cara Swerdlow broke some records today. She tossed a four-hit shutout and in the process became Susquehanna’s all-time winningest pitcher as she now has 45 victories over her four-year career. Below is a picture of her after the game with our head coach.

Congrats Cara!

Stayed tuned for next weeks double headers against Elizabethtown, Wilkes and Drew. 

8 in a row!

We have won 8 games in a row and improved our record to 16-4 with a conference sweep of Cathloic this past weekend. We won the games 6-4 and 3-0. We hope to be on the NCAA Top 25 list soon and these wins definantly helped.

      Below are some pictures from the Live Pink game from a week ago.

This is a picture of our team huddle from above.

This is Lisa Finizio about to drop down a bunt.

This is the infield at the beginning of one of the innings preparing themselves.

This is Brennan up to bat and the other teams catcher can be seen as well.

This week we have games on Wednesday and Thursday. They are against Miseracordia and Gettysburg, both teams are not in our conference. They will still be good games. Go SU!



Another set of great games

This week we had out LIVE PINK games against Lycoming to support breast cancer. We won both games yesterday. The first one we won 5-0 and the second game we won 2-1. Both games were very close going into the closing innings and we managed to pull both out. Right now we are on a 6 game win streak and our record has improved to 14-4.

Two of our players also swept the landmark conference players of the week. Here is a picture of the two of them, Cara and Shelly.

 

The next picture is of some of the team at the Live Pink games yesterday

Tomorrow we have a double header against Gettsyburg and on saturday we have a double header against Catholic. Stayed tuned for what happens during those games!