2016 Juniata Softball News
TOWSON, Md.- The Landmark All-Conference Team for softball was announced on Thursday. Senior first baseman Holly Bettinger (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin) was named to the First Team. This is the first honor for her in her four-year career.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.- Juniata softball hosted Pitt-Bradford in the regular season finale on Tuesday afternoon at West End Field. The Eagles got a strong pitching effort from Maddie Garrick to win the first game 6-1 and nearly had a comeback in the second as the Panthers won 9-8 in Game Two.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Juniata softball team played its final Landmark Conference doubleheader on Saturday afternoon. The Eagles were bested by host Catholic 7-2 and 2-1.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.- Juniata softball hosted Penn State Harrisburg in a non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon. The Lions took the first game 7-5 and won the second game 10-1 in five innings.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.- Juniata softball hosted first place Moravian on Saturday afternoon in a doubleheader at West End Field. The #19 Greyhounds won both games by the score of 8-0.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.- Maddie Garrick (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg) picked up her first career win and the Eagles hit two homeruns as they defeated Penn State-Altoona 9-2 in the first game of a doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon at West End Field. Garrick was making her first career start for Juniata.
SCRANTON, Pa.- Juniata softball scored a pair of runs in both games of their doubleheader with Scranton but it was not enough as the Royals won both games on Saturday afternoon. Scranton won the first game 7-2 and the second by the score of 5-2.
CARLISLE, Pa.- Trailing 6-0 in the second game of a doubleheader, the Juniata softball team had two two-out rallies to tie their game with Dickinson. The Red Devils had a rally of their own as they scored the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to defeat the Eagles 9-8 on Tuesday night at Dickinson Park.
TOWSON, Md.- Senior first baseman Holly Bettinger (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin) has been named the Landmark Conference Athlete of the Week it was announced on Monday. This is Bettinger’s first weekly honor of her career and she is the first Juniata player to earn this distinction since Kelsea Decker in 2013.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.- Juniata softball jumped out to a 7-0 lead against Elizabethtown and held off a Blue Jay rally as the Eagles won 7-4 in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at West End Field. The victory was the first for JC over E-Town since 2009 and ended an 11-game Blue Jay winning streak over the Eagles.
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa.- Juniata softball rebounded from a tough loss in Game One to hold off Wilson College 11-7 in Game Two on Wednesday afternoon. The Eagles’ record now stands at 10-12 overall while the Phoenix are now 7-9.
MADISON, N.J.- Lindsey Kosicki’s (Patton, Pa/Cambria Heights) two-out single in the seventh inning scored two runs and gave Juniata softball a 6-4 win over Drew for its first Landmark win of the season in the first game of a doubleheader. The contest was pushed back two hours because of weather.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.- Juniata softball hosted St. Vincent College in a non-conference doubleheader on Thursday afternoon at West End Field. The Bearcats won 9-1 in the first game and 20-3 in the second game.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.- Juniata hosted Susquehanna in the Landmark opener for both teams on Friday afternoon at West End Field. The Crusaders took Game One 10-0 and the second game by the score of 4-3.
GREENSBURG, Pa.- Juniata softball outscored Pitt-Greensburg 27-5 in two games as the Eagles swept the Panthers on Tuesday afternoon. JC won 9-4 in the first game and 18-1 in five innings in the second game.
HUNTINGDON, Pa. – The Juniata softball team took a decisive 8-0 5-inning victory in game one against Mt. Aloysius but fell 7-2 in game two, settling for a split on their home-opening doubleheader Saturday.
