In her senior year of high school, Sam Scott’s coach didn’t let his players see their batting average. In her senior year of college, it’s a little harder to ignore when it’s atop the PSAC rankings. Scott’s average is up to .489 despite the Gannon University softball team being on a four-game losing streak. Gannon’s [...]
Should the No. 22-ranked Gannon University softball team continue the torrid pace that it has set the first 23 games of the season, senior pitcher Megan Dragon might have to miss graduation in order to compete in the NCAA postseason. That’s fine with her. On the mound, the mechanical engineering major might as well have [...]
This season’s record: 13-2 overall 2012 season: 30-17 record (10-6 PSAC); second in PSAC West. The Knights reached the PSAC conference tournament where they lost to Bloomsburg University, 7-1, and Mercyhurst University 6-5. Key Players lost (2012 statistics): 3B Ashley Petrone, started 44 games, .317 batting average, 31 RBIs tied for team lead; [...]
Don’t call it a Cinderella story. Despite the fact that coach Tom Jakubowski said many people weren’t expecting the Gannon University softball team to advance deep into the postseason this year, the Knights have not only earned a spot in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Tournament, they still have a shot at an NCAA Tournament [...]
The Gannon University softball team will look to defend its territory during a four-game home stand that will close out the last week of regular-season play. The Knights took on Mansfield at home on Tuesday and split a pair of close games with the Mountaineers. Gannon took the first game 3-0 and lost the second [...]
Going Dutch is overrated. For the Gannon University softball team, at least. The Knights split both sets of doubleheaders with conference contenders California and Indiana universities of Pennsylvania on Friday and Monday. In the first of those two matchups, coach Tom Jakubowski said he was pleased with the team for stealing one from the typically [...]
The Gannon University softball team emerged from a grueling weekend in Salem, Va., and a Tuesday double-header at Seton Hill University with just one loss in all three days of action. Led by junior pitchers, Erica Bartholow and Megan Dragon, the team was able to end the weekend in Salem with a 4-1 record. Coach [...]
It’s not often that an 0-2 performance in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference playoffs is cause for success, but in Gannon University softball coach Tom Jakubowski’s eyes, the record stands at 2-0. “Going into this year, we had two things we wanted to do,” Jakubowski said. “We wanted to go .500 and make the playoffs, [...]
Just because the athletic teams’ calendar is slowing down in the final stretch of the year, it doesn’t mean the players are doing the same. In one last hoorah for the spring semester, athletes representing a multitude of sports across campus gear up to take on their professors as both groups lace up the cleats [...]
As the 2011 regular season starts approaching the end for the Gannon University softball team, coach Tom Jakubowski and company draw closer to reaching a goal set a few months ago. “When the season started, I said I would be happy with a .500 record,” Jakubowski said. “With not much of the season left, we’ve [...]