ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Monday, March 11, 2002

Blue Jays Improve to 6-3 With Doubleheader Split Against Division II West Chester, Michelle Morris Now 4-0

WEST CHESTER, Pa. --- Elizabethtown improved to 6-3 overall Monday night with a doubleheader split on the road against NCAA Division II West Chester University. The Blue Jays won the first game, 4-3, in nine innings behind the pitching of sophomore Michelle Morris (Conyngham, PA/Hazleton), who improves to 4-0 in what is quickly becoming a breakthrough season. West Chester won the second game by a final score of 4-0.

Michelle Morris allowed just three hits in the first seven innings of the first game, and five hits through all nine innings. She also struck out 12 in the game while walking just two. West Chester scored two runs in the eighth inning and one in the ninth. Of those three runs, two of them came as a result of the international tie breaker rule, which places a runner on second base at the start of each extra inning.

Offensively, Emily Morris (Canton, PA/Canton) went 2-4 with one double and one eighth-inning RBI for Etown. Kristin Lezinski (Olyphant, PA/Lakeland) drove in another eighth inning run on a sacrifice, and she had a stolen base for Etown. Jenn Zemba (Library, PA/South Park) hit 2-4 with a double and a ninth-inning RBI, and Jess Robinson (McSherrystown, PA/Delone Catholic) batted 2-5 with a double in the first game for Etown.

In the second game, West Chester's Stacey Schellinger allowed just one hit in a game that was shortened to five innings. The one hit came courtesy of a single by Etown freshman Jill Hull (Grantham, PA).

Although Elizabethtown has played ten games thus far this season, the team's record is just 6-3. The reason why is because one of the games Etown has played does not count toward the team's season record or statistics.

Last week in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Elizabethtown defeated Kalamazoo Valley College 5-1. Because Kalamazoo Valley College is a two-year community college, the game does not count toward Etown's season record or the season statistics of any of the Blue Jays' players, according to NCAA rules. If the game did count, Michelle Morris would now be 5-0 and the team would be 7-3 overall.

View the first game's box score.

View the second game's box score.