April 29, 2007

Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

Slippery Rock, Pa. - Top-ranked Lock Haven handed The Rock 7-1 and 14-2 losses Sunday in SRU's regular-season finales to erase any hope of the Green and White earning a berth in this year's Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference playoffs.

The losses dropped The Rock's overall record to 26-22 and its PSAC-Western Division mark to 8-12.

The 26 wins is a new school record.

Lock Haven, the defending NCAA Division II national champion, improved its overall record to 41-2 and closed out its division season with a 19-1 mark.

SRU must now sit and wait to hear its fate in a quest to earn an NCAA regional tournament berth. The Rock began the week ranked sixth in the Mid-Atlantic Region; the top eight teams in the final poll of the season will earn berths in the regional tournament May 10-13.

The Rock was never really in either of Sunday's games as Lock Haven scored four times in the top of the first inning of the opening game and scored four runs in the first two frames of the second game.

SRU can take some consolation, though, from the fact that it recorded six hits off Lock Haven ace Kristen Erb, who was named last spring as the top Division II female athlete in the nation.

The Rock got three of its hits in the third inning, when it scored its only run of the game. Kelly Wolfe got the rally started with a one-out infield single and moved to second on Courtney Vincent's single to right field before she scored on Stacey Rhoades' infield single.

Rhoades also had a two-out single in the first inning to finish the game as the only Rock player with more than one hit.

Rhoades also had an RBI single in Game 2 to finish the day with three hits and two RBIs.

Vincent and Jessica Kortz had two hits each in Game 2 to lead an eight-hit Rock attack.

Sheree Horvath singled home SRU's first run in the fourth inning before Rhoades' RBI single in the fifth accounted for the second Rock tally.

Lisa Getgen (6-6) was The Rock's starting and losing pitcher in Game 1. She allowed seven earned runs on seven hits, struck out one and walked three in the first three and one-third innings.

Horvath struck out one and walked one in one and two-thirds innings before Liz Pittman yielded one earned run on three hits and struck out two in the final two innings.

Courtney Conron pitched her school-record 17th complete game of the season in Game 2. She yielded 11 earned runs on 15 hits, struck out four and walked three in five innings.

Conron, who saw her season record fall to 11-10, was one of three Rock players who made their final home appearance on Sunday. She will be joined in this year's senior class by outfielder Jessica Freeman and catcher Kelly Wolfe.