Softball team realizes need for hard work

GINA h.RACCBIA STAFFWRITER

The women's softball team has been nationally ranked for the past three years and ready for another season this coming spring.

Karen Pelkey will is the head coach, for the second year in a row. The first two years here she was assistant coach. Pelkey, or Pelleas everyone on the team caUs her, is just as excited for this softbafi season as her team, Last season, they proved how strong and determined they were to succeed and are ready to do it all over again. Even though there is more pressure on the team to win this year, their strategy does not change.

"Play each game better than we did the last, winning the game one inning at a time," Pelkey said. "We have good experience and that will help carry us through the tight games,"

Last year the softbaJJ team had a winning streak for almost two months, which led them to the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Tournament against Gwynedd-Mercy, and Misericordia. After oefeating both these teams. they moved on to win the NCAA First-Round Tournament against Western Maryland Coriege, 6-1. They were not able to make it to the end of the tournament, and will never forget the last game of their season. Melanie Klaus, a senior and catcher for the softball team, said, "We lost and it was really hard. We worked for so long, and we weren't expecting to be done with our season already, but we had some really good games last year."

Three players who are now the powerhouse of the team were freshmen when they joine-0, and boosted the softball team's status. "The team really took flight when this year's three seniors