[Kutztown Spring Roundup] 2004-05 No. 28 March 28, 2005

[Josh Leiboff]

Kutztown University Spring Sports Roundup 
2004-05 No. 28  March 28, 2005

KU Student Bookstore 
Athlete of the Week 

Mike McCardell - Baseball
(so. West Chester/Henderson) 

         Mike McCardell, of the baseball team, is this week's KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week.  McCardell pitched eight strong innings in KU's 4-1 win over Adelphi on Thursday.  He struck out nine batters, while allowing five hits and one unearned run.  He has not allowed an earned run in his last 20 innings pitched. 

Golden Bear Weekly Honor Roll for 3/28
Name, Sport (Last week's stats)
Stacy Bricker, Softball (.308, 4 2B, 3 RBI)
Kyle Sadlowski, Baseball (1-0, 6 K)

Baseball (18-8, 0-0 PSAC East)

Last Week's Action

       TUE 3/22 - KU 4, ADELPHI 1 - Mike McCardell (so. West Chester/Henderson) fanned nine in eight innings of work, as the Golden Bears topped Adelphi, 4-1.  McCardell (3-1) allowed just five hits and a walk and overcame five KU errors to surrender just one unearned run.  The Golden Bears scored all four of their runs in the first two innings.  In the first, Josh Fink (jr. Hatfield/North Penn) led off with an infield single and John Shade (so. Reading/Muhlenberg) walked.  Paul Koropchak (sr. Pottsville/North Schuylkill) and Ryan Loper (so. Boiling Springs/Cumberland Valley) stroked two more infield singles, with Fink scoring on Loper's base knock.  Scott Senna (sr. North Plainfield, NJ/North Plainfield) drove home Shade with a sacrifice fly to cap the scoring in the first.  With one out in the second, Gary Stricker (sr. Croydon/Conwell Egan-Catholic) was hit by a pitch and Fink added his second single of the game.  A wild pitch and an errant throw by the Panthers' catcher let Stricker come home, and Shade hit a sacrifice fly to score Fink.  Matt Keller (jr. Fleetwood/Fleetwood) struck out three of the four batters he faced in the ninth to notch his first save of the season.  Fink went 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored.  Shade, Loper and Senna each had an RBI and Senna added a stolen base.  The win was KU's sixth in its last seven games.

SAT 3/26 - MOLLOY 1, KU 0 - KU managed just three hits in the first game of a doubleheader against Molloy, falling 1-0.  The Lions scored their run on an RBI double in the fourth inning.  Kutztown had just four base runners in the game, with two getting erased by a double play and a pickoff, and just one reaching second base.  Shade, Clay Kuklick (sr. North Wales/North Penn) and Senna had KU's hits.  Matt Maradeo (jr. Nesquehoning/Panther Valley) (3-3) was the losing pitching, despite allowing just the one run on six hits with five strikeouts in seven innings. 

KU 6, MOLLOY 1 - Kutztown bounced back in the second game, defeating the Lions 6-1.  KU jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first on a bases-clearing triple by Koropchak, who then scored on a sacrifice squeeze by Loper.  The Golden Bears added a run in the second on a single by Tony Riegel (sr. Exeter/Exeter), and Koropchak scored in the fifth on a wild pitch.  Koropchak was 1-for-2 with two runs and three RBI in the game.  Riegel was 2-for-2 with a run and an RBI.  Kyle Sadlowski (jr. Reading/Central Catholic) (4-1) got the win, going six innings while allowing four hits, one earned run and striking out six.  Kevin Morganti (fr. Muhlenberg/Muhlenberg) pitched a scoreless seventh inning.

MON 3/28 - at Elizabethtown - postponed, makeup TBA

Upcoming Events

TUE 3/29 - PHILADELPHIA 2:30 PM

Women's Golf

Last Week's Action

TUE 3/22 - KU SPRING INVITATIONAL - 2nd/4 - The Golden Bears won the tie-breaker to take second place at the KU Spring Invitational at Berkleigh Country Club.  Lehigh won the team title with a 347, while KU and Mount St. Mary's had matching 365s.  Piera Snyder (sr. Reading/Lancaster County Day), the Golden Bears fifth finisher, edged the fifth finisher from Mount St. Mary's by a single stroke to give KU the tie-breaker.  Snyder shot a 101.  Holly Shubilla (so. Wilkes-Barre/GAR Memorial) paced Kutztown with a sixth place round of 88.  Tristin Suzenski (so. Pottstown/St. Piux X) tied for eighth with an 89.  Angie Petak (fr. Brockway/Brockway) shot a 93, good for a 12th place tie.  Snyder finished 16th.    

SAT  3/26 at Northern Kentucky Invitational - 11th/11 -  Suzenski shot an 86 to pace the Golden Bears at the Northern Kentucky Invitational at Perry Golf Club in Carrolton, KY.  Suzenski tied for 38th.  Shubilla and Petak tied for 41st with each player turning in an 89 on her scorecard.  Tied for 54th was Amy Miller (fr. Schuylkill Haven/Schuylkill Haven) with a 95.  Snyder rounded out the KU golfers with a round of 98.

Upcoming Events

MON 3/28 - at Bellarmine Invitational TBA

 -TUE 3/29  

Softball (12-10, 0-2 PSAC East)

Last Week's Action

TUE 3/22 - LOCK HAVEN 7, KU 3 (9 innings) - Lock Haven scored five runs in the ninth inning to defeat KU in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) inter-division game at North Campus Field.  The Lady Eagles had just one hit in the decisive inning, a three-run double that broke it open.  LHU also took advantage of two KU miscues.  KU was hitless until the sixth inning, when Dani Wunderlich (so. Douglasville/Daniel Boone) got on board with a bunt single.  She scored on a double by Stacy Bricker (sr. Kutztown/Kutztown) to tie the score and send it to extra innings.  Using the international tie-breaker (starting a runner at second), both teams scored a run in the eighth - with KU's Megan Alexander (so. Mechanicsburg/Mechanicsburg) beating the throw home on an infield grounder by Adriane Willmer (so. Kitchener, ONT/Resurrection).  Stacey Denlinger (jr. Harleysville/Souderton) was the losing pitcher (4-2), striking out five batters over 8.1 innings.

LOCK HAVEN 6, KU 0 - Lock Haven completed the sweep with a one-hit shutout.  KU's Dani Spalik (so. Johnson City, NY/Johnson City) broke up LHU's no-hit bid with a single just out of the reach of the third baseman with two outs in the seventh.  Cheryl Griffith (sr. Bethlehem/Freedom) (5-4) took the loss, going four innings with three strikeouts.

FRI 3/25 - Shippensburg 8, KU 4 - Shippensburg scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 3-3 tie and defeat KU 8-4 in the PSAC Eastern Division opener Friday afternoon.  Jackie Messina (fr. Allentown/Parkland) and Bricker were  2-for-3 with two RBI each.  Willmer scored a pair of runs.  Bricker had a sacrifice fly to score Willmer in the first.  After Ship scored three runs in the third, KU tied it in the fifth on an RBI triple by Messina and a run-scoring double by Bricker. Messina added another RBI triple in the seventh.  Lindsay Bennett (fr. Rising Sun, MD/Rising Sun) (0-2) was the losing pitcher, going 5.2 innings. 

Shippensburg 3, KU 1 - Shippensburg erased a 1-0 Kutztown lead with a two-out, three run home run in the sixth to complete the sweep of the Golden Bears.   Wunderlich was 2-for-3, while Sara Cook was 1-for-3 with a home run in the fifth to give KU a 1-0 lead.  Denlinger (4-3) was the losing pitcher, striking out three batters over six innings.

Upcoming Events

WED 3/30 - WEST CHESTER (DH) 2:00 PM

FRI 4/1 - at Millersville (DH) 4:00 PM

SAT 4/2 - MANSFIELD (DH) 1:00 PM

TUE 4/5 - at Bloomsburg (DH) 2:00 PM 

Men's Tennis (8-0, 0-0 PSAC)

Last Week's Action

Idle

Upcoming Events

FRI 4/1 - MERCY 3:30 PM

TUE 4/5 - at West Chester 3:00 PM 

Women's Tennis (6-1, 0-0 PSAC East)

Last Week's Action

Idle

Upcoming Events

SAT 4/2 - at Shippensburg TBA

TUE 4/5 - at West Chester 3:00 PM 

Outdoor Track & Field

Last Week's Action

FRI 3/25 - at Lehigh Valley Inv. (at Lehigh) - cancelled

Upcoming Events

SAT 4/2 - at Muhlenberg Inv. TBA

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Josh Leiboff
Kutztown University Sports Information
Phone: (610) 683-4182
Fax: (610) 683-4676
Email: leiboff at kutztown.edu
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