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7th Inning Thunder Lifts Trine To National Championship

Plus: Lynchburg One Win Away and Academic All-America BSB, SFB Teams

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Steve Ulrich
June 08, 2023

JUNE 8, 2023 | written by STEVE ULRICH

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»🏆 Championship Thursday. One down, one to go.

» What’s Happening Today: The DIII Baseball Championship concludes. DIII LGBTQ Working Group (noon) and Playing Rules and Oversight Panel (1p) meet.

TOP STORY
1. 7th Inning Thunder Lifts Trine To National Championship

Carolyn Biel may never have to buy dinner again in Angola again.

After making an outstanding defensive play in the top of the seventh inning, the graduate student drove in the championship-winning run to lift Trine (46-6) to a 1-0 victory over Salisbury (49-6) for the program’s first national softball championship.

Biel’s liner to left field plated Emma Beyer with the game-winner. Alexis Michon was outstanding in the circle, allowing just two hits while striking out five. She outdueled Lindsay Windsor who scattered six hits and fanned four.

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BASEBALL
2. Potts Pitches Hornets Past Hop

Zack Potts, Lynchburg

Senior RHP Zack Potts went the distance, allowing seven hits and no earned runs to improve to 13-0 as Lynchburg downed Johns Hopkins, 5-2, in the opening game of the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship series.

The Hornets (47-7) scored twice in the top of the first to take control and sweated out a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the ninth. Eric Hiett had a pair of RBIs for Lynchburg.

The best-of-3 series concludes today with the Blue Jays (47-7) needing two wins to take the title, while the Hornets need one triumph for their first NCAA baseball crown.

ACADEMICS
3. Saunders Named Softball Academic All-American of Year

Recent Union College graduate Karson Saunders was named CSC Academic All-American of the Year in softball.

The Rexford, N.Y. native compiled a 4.0 GPA as a sociology and English double major in the classroom, while earning first-team All-America honors in the outfield, hitting .528 with a 1.364 OPS.

The 12 members of the Academic All-America first team have an average GPA of 3.96.

First Team

P-McKenna Smith, Husson, Sr., Biology, 3.92
P-Anna Koeppl, Trine, Sr., English Education, 3.98
C-Maddie Luderman, Simpson, Sr., Neuroscience, 3.83
IF-Lindsay Ambrosino, WPI, Grad., Electrical & Computer Engineering, 4.0
IF-Alyssa Borozan, Montclair State, Grad, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, 4.0
IF-Mackenzie Biven, MIT, Soph., Business Analytics, 4.0
IF-KaiLi Gross, Case Western Reserve, Jr., Biomedical Engineering, 4.0
IF-Morgan Frye, Berry, Jr., 3.85, Environmental Science
OF-Karson Saunders, Union, Sr., Sociology / English, 4.0
OF-Allie Fauth-Kilgore, Bethel, Grad., Elementary Education, 3.98
OF-Grace Salaja, MSOE, Sr., Electrical Engineering, 4.0
DP-Grace Houghton, Loras, Sr., Mathematics, 3.94

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ACADEMICS
4. Horvat Honored as Baseball Academic All-American of the Year

Recent Washington & Jefferson graduate Tyler Horvat was named the CSC Academic All-American of the Year for the sport of baseball.

The native of Irwin, Pa. hit leadofffor the Presidents this season, hitting .387 with 30 steals as a centerfielder. The finance major who compiled a 3.99 GPA, also served as the team’s mound ace, posting an 11-3 record with 82 strikeouts in 93.1 innings.

The members of the Academic All-America first team have a combined 3.92 GPA.

First Team

P-Tyler Horvat, Washington & Jefferson, Sr., Finance/Accounting, 3.99
P-Charlie Fleming, Denison, Sr., Health, Exercise & Sport Studies, 3.84
C-Harrison Poeszat, Kalamazoo, Sr., Chemistry, 3.96
IF-Justin Sartori, Aurora, Grad., Finance & Business Administration, 4.00
IF-Noah Campabelli, St. John Fisher, Sr., Finance/Accounting, 3.93
IF-Luke Vonderhaar, Baldwin Wallace, Sr., Accounting, 3.98
IF-Michael Newsom, Spalding, Grad., Business Communication, 4.00
OF-Matthew Carlsen, Bethel, Jr., Mechanical Engineering, 4.00
OF-Matthew Cooper, Johns Hopkins, Sr., Economics, 3.54
OF-Kyle McCausland, Middlebury, Soph., Economics & Computer Science, 3.92
DH-Graham Cartwright, MIT, Sr., Computer Science/Economics/Business Analytics, 3.92

NEWS
5. Lightning Round ⚡️

🗞 News. Former Trinity U. baseball standout MJ Metz hit three home runs in Duke’s win over UNC Wilmington in the NCAA Division I baseball regionals on Friday. Oh, he did it playing with a torn ACL in his left knee. “I’ve always known what kind of player I was,” said the 6-6, 240-pound Metz. “I’ve never really doubted myself in that sense. To get the opportunity to come here, it’s been great.”

🎾 Tennis (M). The ITA announced its DIII tennis award winners. Congrats to Pomona-Pitzer’s Janie Marcus (Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship), Kenyon’s Eleni Lazaridou (Rookie of Year), Emory’s Stephanie Shulman (Most Improved Senior), and MIT’s Sarah Pertsemlidis (Senior Player of Year).

🎾 Tennis (W). The ITA announced its DIII tennis award winners. Congrats to Pacific’s Koby Murata (Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship), CMS’ Advik Mareedu (Rookie of Year), Skidmore’s Brendan Jimenez (Most Improved Senior), and CWRU’s James Hopper (Senior Player of Year).

 🎂  Happy Birthday. Cake and candles for Kelly Bergamo, Sally Snover, and Kaho Akau.

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