Playoff season has arrived

by Alexis Strizziere sports editor

Ending last season as the NCAA East Regional runner-up for the second year in a row with a record of 42-5, this year's women's softball team will try to do it all over again. This season, the softball team will be going into the PAC Championships as the regular season PAC Champions with a record of 31-6.

May 1 opened the first round of the PAC playoffs. Currently, Cabrini is the number one seeded team in the PAC. They will play the winner of the number four and five seeded teams on May 4 and 5 in a double elimination playoff game. In total the team will have to win three games to capture the title as the PAC Champions. Because they are the regular season PAC champions, they will be hosting the PAC Championship game here.

" My goal for this weekend is to capture PAC's and defen1 our title as the champions," Karen Pelky, head women's softball coach, said." Ifwe win PA.C'sthen we will go to Regionals again, which would give us an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament."

Pelky commented on how well the team has been playing together up until this point in their season. As there are eight returning players and eight new players, the team has been learning from each other the whole season. " When one teammate gets down, they pick each other up. Everyday there is a new hero on the field," Pelky said. "They share the passion I have for softball. They give me everything I have and I know they can accomplish a lot," Pelley said.

Going into the playoffs, Cabrini's strongest asset is their pitching. Senior pitcher Jacki Armes has been out ·for a month with a stress fracture in her back, but freshman pitcher Ange Templin has. done her job and stepped up to fill the position. Templin has also been sharing the pitching mound with senior All-American pitcher Megan Johnston.

by Gina Roswell staff writer

On April 24, the Women's Lacrosse team - lost to Ursinus College in the last game of the regular season by a score ef 10-19. The Cavs ended their season with a record of 12-4.

Jackie Neary, head coach, said, "We had one good half [the fii-sthalf] but we needed two. Ursinus came out on fire the second half and we just didn't have as much fire as they did. Ursinus College is seeded as one of the top six teams in the nation, so playing games against those types of teams is a good preparation for playing against other s·chools - especially in a playoff situation."

"I feel great about our season. We only lost four games and were undefeated in the PACs," Nicole Schulz, senior captain, said. "We played _ hard in all games and I think we did a great job, overall."

Speaking in a general sense, Neary commented on the team by saying that the girls are "doing a great }ob. We lost our senior goalie of four years, but to our surprise, we are having a great season. We now have a lot of 'go-to-people' instead of just relying on one player."

A playoff game on Wednesday, May 1 against Cedar Crest College creates