Softball
Game Recap

April 8, 2009

Denlinger powers KU to doubleheader sweep of Millersville

Steph Denlinger

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. — Steph Denlinger (sr. Harleysville/Souderton) hit her 18th homer of the season as the Kutztown University softball team brought the bats in a doubleheader sweep of Millersville University Wednesday.

KU (35-6-1, 10-0 PSAC East) scored 18 runs Wednesday, winning 8-0 in game one and 10-1 in game two.

Denlinger highlighted the day, going a combined 4-for-6 with four RBIs, four runs scored and a home run.

She leads the team in batting with a .408 average. She has 49 RBIs and 52 runs scored. With her one walk Wednesday, she moves into a tie for second place on the NCAA Division II all-time walks list with 141 in her career. She needs four more to tie the record holder, Taiisha Pleasant (1997-2000), of Humboldt State, at 145.

KU, which has swept its last five PSAC East doubleheaders, has now won 30 of its last 33 games.

The Golden Bears will travel to Shippensburg for a 3 p.m. doubleheader Thursday. KU can clinch its third straight PSAC East title with a sweep of the Red Raiders. 

Game 1
Score by Innings
Kutztown 8, Millersville 0       R  H  E
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Kutztown............ 200 122 1 - 8 11 0
Millersville........ 000 000 0 - 0  6 0
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Game 2
Score by Innings 
Kutztown 10, Millersville 1      R  H  E
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Kutztown............ 211 001 5 - 10 14 0
Millersville........ 100 000 0 -  1  4 3
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Offense thrives, Arbogast shines with 11 strikeouts

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. — Steph Denlinger (sr. Harleysville/Souderton) led the Golden Bears with two of their 11 hits and pitcher Katlin Arbogast (jr. Ambler/Wissahickon) struck out 11 in a complete-game shutout of Millersville in game one of their doubleheader.

Arbogast (17-3) allowed six hits and two walks over seven innings for the win.

Denlinger, who homered in the fifth, finished 2-for-2 with two runs and two RBIs. It was her 18th homer of the season and 74th of her career.

She was one of four Golden Bears to have multiple hits in the game.

Maria Schiavo (jr. Old Forge/Old Forge), Kim Morrison (sr. Newmarket, ONTARIO /Sir William Mulock) and Krista Tedjeske (so. Summerhill/Forest Hills) also had two hits.

Schiavo and Tedjeske each had two RBIs and a run scored, while Morrison scored two runs and drove in another.

Tedjeske homered and doubled, and both Morrison and Schiavo hit triples.

Ashley Fitzgerald (sr. Kitchener, ONTARIO /Resurrection) finished 1-for-3 with an RBI double, and Heather Hannum (fr. Hatboro/Hatboro-Horsham) singled and scored a run.

Schiavo's four hits highlights KU's 10-1 win

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. — Maria Schiavo (jr. Old Forge/Old Forge) collected four of the Golden Bears’ 14 hits in a 10-1 win over Millersville in game two of their doubleheader.

Schiavo finished 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored.

Kim Morrison (sr. Newmarket, ONTARIO /Sir William Mulock) and Maggie Reifsnyder (so. Philadelphia/Littleflower) each doubled, while Ashley Fitzgerald (sr. Kitchener, ONTARIO /Resurrection) and Heather Hannum (fr. Hatboro/Hatboro-Horsham) homered for the Golden Bears.

Steph Denlinger (sr. Harleysville/Souderton) went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.

KU scored five runs in the top of the seventh to break the game open.

Mary Hoch (so. Somerton/St. Hubert) picked up her 10th win of the season, allowing just one run on one hit and a walk. She struck out five. Shaina Briel’s homer in the bottom of the first, which cut KU’s lead to 2-1, was the only run Millersville managed in the doubleheader.