DLN Roundup: Top-ranked WCU to host PSAC Women’s Lacrosse Tournament
For the 17th time since joining the conference in 1983, West Chester University will play host to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championship this weekend as the four semifinalists descend on South Campus May 5-7 for the 2023 PSAC Women’s Lacrosse Championship.
Tickets to the PSAC Tournament games this weekend at Vonnie Gros Field are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Any student from a PSAC member institution will be admitted free of charge. Only PSAC passes will be honored. The purchasing of tickets is an online only process and available through social media platforms and will be at the gate the day of the games.
West Chester (17-0) will host Mercyhurst (9-8) on Friday at 1 p.m. in the first semifinal while Seton Hill (14-3) will take on Kutztown (13-4) at 4 p.m. in the other semifinal. The two winners of the semifinal games will meet on Sunday in the championship at 12 p.m. at Vonnie Gros Field.
West Chester has won a conference-best 24 titles with head coach Ginny Martino at the helm of 14 of those. She was an assistant for a pair of crowns as well, before taking over the program in 1998. The Golden Rams show an incredible 44-10 record all-time in the PSAC Tournament and a 27-2 mark on home turf. The only two losses came in 2010 and 2011 to Lock Haven, which is the only school to beat West Chester at home in the tournament.
The Golden Rams last won the PSAC Championship in 2021 at home concluding a three-year run as conference champs. Vonnie Gros Field has played host to four of the last five PSAC Women’s Lacrosse Championships counting this weekend.
Baseball
Downingtown East 7, Oxford 2 >> Jake Schultz drove in three runs, and teammates Chase Martin and Nick Mullen each added two hits and two RBI to lead the Cougars past the Hornets in Ches-Mont action. Oxford pitcher Landen Rozich went four-plus innings and allowed four hits and three earned runs.
Downingtown West 2, Sun Valley 0 >> Jay Slater homered and knocked in both runs for Whippets in a win against the Vanguards.
Coatesville 4, Kennett 2 >> The Raiders led 4-0 through six innings and held on for a Ches-Mont win. Pitcher Ben Jones went six innings and fanned 15 batters. Dylan Jeffers had three hits and Jack Francis added two hits for Coatesville. Bailey Shindle had two hits to lead the Blue Demons.
Softball
West Chester Henderson 1, Unionville 0 (8 innings) >> Pitcher Annaleise McCubbin fanned 15 batters and scattered four hits on the way to a victory for the Warriors. Teammate Marissa Pfeifer drove in the winning run in the eighth for Henderson. Madison Parisi allowed just two hits, struck out 12 and allowed zero earned runs for the Longhorns, and Catherine Stone went 3-for-3.
Downingtown West 14, Sun Valley 3 >> The Whippets banged out 17 hits, including three (and three RBI) by Olivia Gardner, to top the Vanguards. Starter Addison Carter went the distance, scattered eight hits and fanned a dozen for West.
College
Softball
Immaculata 5, Neumann 3; Immaculata 7, Neumann 4 >> The Mighty Macs wrapped up the regular season with a sweep over the Knights in an Atlantic East Conference doubleheader. In the opener, Peyton McGowan and Carly Grandizio each had home runs for the Mighty Macs. Alyssa Daly and Breyele Anthony had two hits apiece in the nightcap for Immaculata (3-9, 13-21).
Gannon 9, West Chester 7 >> The Rams (36-17) fell in an elimination game of the PSAC Tournament at Veterans Park in Quakertown. Madison Melvin went 4-for-5 to pace WCU, and she continued to make her mark in the record books by setting a new single-season hit record with her 86th of the season. West Chester, who was ranked second in the latest DII softball rankings released earlier this afternoon, will now wait for the NCAA DII Softball Selection Show on May 8 at 10 a.m. to learn where and when its 2023 season will continue.
