Game 1 Box Score Game 2 Box Score
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – The Lebanon Valley College softball team concluded its 2003 season with a pair of losses on Monday afternoon at King's College in MAC non-conference action.
The three-time defending Freedom Conference champion Monarchs (21-9) won 7-1 in the opener and 7-3 in the nightcap.
Sophomore Michelle Norman (Lebanon, Pa./Lebanon) was tagged with the loss in the first game for LVC (8-21) while junior Jess Cooney (Rockledge, Pa./Abington) absorbed the defeat in game two.
Senior Amanda Potteiger (Halifax, Pa./Halifax) went 3-for-5 with three RBIs in her final collegiate doubleheader to lead the Valley at the plate.
Lebanon Valley trailed 3-0 after two innings in the opener before putting a run on the board with an RBI-single from Potteiger in the third. King's broke open the game with a three-run, three-hit third against Norman (0-7).
Sarah Genewski (11-6) struck out five in five innings to earn the win for the Monarchs. She gave up six hits and walked none.
Norman pitched four innings and allowed all seven of King's runs. Freshman Alissa Albers (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) hurled two innings of two-hit, no-run ball for the Valley in relief.
Potteiger, freshman Abbey Gearhart (Lebanon, Pa./Annville-Cleona), and freshman Mandi Nace (Liverpool, Pa./Greenwood) all collected two hits for LVC in the first game.
Lebanon Valley jumped on King's starter Melissa Boyda with two runs on three hits in the top of the first in the nightcap. Gearhart led off the game with a walk and three batters later, Potteiger
launched her first home run of the season to put LVC up 2-0.
The Monarchs answered with six runs on six hits over the next two innings against Cooney (4-7).
Albers came on in the third and was impressive over the final four innings for the Valley. Albers gave up just one run and three hits while walking only one and striking out one in her second straight relief appearance.
King's replaced Boyda with Megan Adams in the second and Adams gave up just one run the rest of the way. LVC put a run on the scoreboard in the sixth when freshman Tunisia Seguinot (Lebanon, Pa./Lebanon Catholic) ripped an RBI single.
Adams (5-1) limited LVC to four hits in six innings. She struck out two and walked none.
Seguinot and freshman Jessie Serafin (Tarriffville, Conn./Simsbury) recorded a pair of hits apiece for the Valley in the nightcap.
Although Lebanon Valley did not qualify for the Commonwealth Conference playoffs, LVC will serve as the host site for the Commonwealth tournament on Friday and Saturday at the LVC Softball Park.
[Photo - Senior Amanda Potteiger, who went 3-for-5 with three RBIs and a home run in her final collegiate doubleheader]
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