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2005 Articles
Chapman -- NCAA tournament Sunday, 5/22/05 (Score: W, 4-1) Toms reach NCAA finals John Tschida's 400th coaching victory was a sweet one as St. Thomas moved within one win of a repeat NCAA softball championship with Sunday's 4-1 defeat of No. 3-ranked Chapman (Calif.) in their winners' bracket game at the Division III College World Series in Raleigh, N.C. Freshman Maria Bye, who relieved starter Janet Nagle in the first inning, pitched out of three jams and retired the last 11 batters she faced to push the 12th-ranked Tommies (42-6) into the finals. UST outhit the Panthers 9-6 as Carrie Embree went 3-for-3 and Nikki Conway and Michelle Wong each had two hits. In the Tommies' three-run first ining, Conway led off the game with a double and scored on Wong's single. Embree added an RBI single. In seven NCAA playoff games Conway is batting .600 (12-for-20) with 11 runs, eight RBI, four homers and three doubles, while Embree is hitting .500 (9-for-18) with four runs and four RBI. St. Thomas, 3-0 in the double-elimination tournament, moves into Monday's 1:30 championship finals and is assured of a top-two finish. The Toms play Monday at 1:30 p.m. with a chance to become the first school in 19 seasons to win back-to-back D-III softball titles. Chapman plays at 11 a.m. Monday vs. the winner of tonight's Salisbury-Ithaca game. That winner needs to beat St. Thomas to force a Tuesday title rematch at 10 a.m. -- otherwise a Tommie win Monday seals the championship. Chapman scored its run in the bottom of the first inning. Bye, who worked 6 1-3 innings to get the victory, walked just one, fanned six and allowed no runs and five hits. She escaped a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the first inning with a strike out and a pop out. Chapman threatened in the second inning with a walk and two hits but had the lead runner thrown out at third base by rightfielder Colleen Fitzpatrick to end the inning. The Panthers left eight runners on base in the first four innings. In the fourth inning, Embree singled, stole second and scored on Mandy Evans' double. Tschida (400-79, .835 win clip in 11 seasons) watched his Tommies win for the 31st time in 32 games and move to 19-0 in postseason play over the last two seasons. That streak includes 13 NCAA playoff games in which they've never trailed and six conference playoff wins. The Toms outscored seven NCAA playoff foes 36-9 last year and have outscored six NCAA playoff opponents 38-4 this year. Five of the 2005 postseason wins have come vs. teams ranked Nos. 1-2-3-6 including wins over four All-American pitchers. Tschida has reached the NCAA finals for the third time in six seasons -- he guided St. Mary's to the 2000 championship and led UST to the 2004 crown. The Tommies avenged a 2-1 loss to Chapman back in March on the Panthers' home diamond in what was UST's seventh game and Chapman's 28th game. Earlier Sunday, Salisbury stayed alive with a 3-1 win over Muskingum on the three-run homer in the last of the seventh, and Ithaca eliminated Alma 5-4. Ithaca and Salisbury play at about 7 p.m. tonight with the winner moving on to Monday. NCAA Division III Softball National Tourney/Raleigh, N.C. Salisbury -- NCAA tournament Saturday, 5/21/05 Score: W, (5-0) Toms stay unbeaten at nationals Junior Janet Nagle threw the first no-hitter in Division III Softball College World Series play in five years to lead the 12th-ranked Tommies to a 5-0 victory over second-ranked Salisbury (Md.) in Saturday's national tourney winner's bracket game in Raleigh, N.C. Nagle struck out six and walked three as she improved her career postseason record to 17-0. She had a one-hit shutout over Moravian in the 2004 national title game. Junior Nikki Conway's two-run homer in the third inning started the offense for the Tommies (41-6), who have won 16 in a row and 30 of their last 31 games. The Toms extended their postseason win streak to 18. Conway went 3-for-4 to lead a 10-hit attack. Conway is now 10-for-16 (.625) with four homers in five NCAA playoff wins. Her home run was her 11th of the season and 31st of her career. Maria Bye had two hits and joined Carrie Embree and Katie Wiberg with RBI hits. St. Thomas coach John Tschida was happy with the performance. The players came out focused today and responded," Tschida said. "You can only do so much as a coach and then its the players that must make it happen. Janet threw a good game today versus a really good team. The Tommies are assured of a top-three finish and will be playing Monday. They advance to 4 p.m. Sunday winner's bracket game vs. the Chapman-Ithaca winner. Salisbury (41-5) plays an 11 a.m. Sunday elimination game and must win five elimination games -- two on Sunday, two on Monday and one on Tuesday -- to take the championship. Salisbury, ranked second nationally and in the CWS for the fourth year in a row, took third last season but never faced St. Thomas. Williams -- NCAA tournament Friday, 5/20/05 (Score: W, 5-2) Toms win nationals opener Junior Nikki Conway hit her 30th career home run and junior Janet Nagle threw 4 2-3 hitless innings and improved her career postseason record to 16-0 as St. Thomas scored a 5-2 victory over Williams (Mass.) in Friday's NCAA Division III College World Series softball game in Raleigh, N.C. St. Thomas (40-6) has now won 15 in a row and 29 of its last 30 games and reached 40 victories for the second time in school history. UST is now 17-0 in postseason play over the last two seasons and has never trailed in its 11 NCAA playoff victories. The Tommies advance to a 4 p.m. winner's bracket game Saturday vs. Salisbury (Md.), a 3-0 winner over Alma (Mich.). UST is assured of a top-five finish and will play into Sunday. Salisbury, in the College World Series for the fourth year in a row, placed third last season but didn't play UST. In other games, Chapman edged Muskingum 2-1 in eight innings, and the Ithaca-Wm. Paterson game was postponed by rain and will be played Saturday at 9 a.m. Saturday's other game times likely will be moved back 60-90 minutes. You always have to be good and lucky to win this, and being the defending champions, we knew it wasnt going to be easy, said St. Thomas head coach John Tschida. We played below par. We had at least 10 mental mistakes on the bases that could have cost us, but we had some big hits and (Janet) Nagle pitched effectively. Nagle and Maria Bye had a combined no-hitter through five innings before Williams had its first hit in the sixth. They combined to strike out six. St. Thomas took a 2-0 lead in the third on as Colleen Fitzpatrick scored on Michelle Wongs groundout. Kristi Huegels RBI single then scored Conway from third. Conway had the big hit for the Tommies in the fourth, connecting on a monster two-run homer to left field. Mandy Evans also had an RBI double in the fourth for St. Thomas. Williams finally broke through with a run each in the fifth and sixth. Katelyn Knox scored on a passed ball in the fifth, and Alana Frost scored on a St. Thomas error in the sixth. The Ephs had the tying run at the plate in the sixth, but Knox struck out swinging. Conway went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two RBI. Her home run was the 10th of the season and moved her into 15th on the Division III career list with one season yet to play. She allowed the first run on a passed ball but picked a runner off first with two on to end a threat in the fifth inning. I think the name of the game is they took advantage of our mistakes, said Williams head coach Kris Herman. I was happy with the way we stayed in the game, and our pitch selection was very good. We just didnt hit the ball the way we needed to hit it. UST knocked out Williams starter Clara Hard as they had six hits and five earned runs. This is the first game of the four-day, double-elimination tournament NCAA Regional Tournament Friday, 5/13/05 (Score: 2-0) Junior Janet Nagle threw five no-hit innings and 12th-ranked St. Thomas zoomed to a 7-0 victory over No. 1-ranked Washington (Mo.) Sunday in a winner's bracket game at the NCAA Regional Softball Tournament in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Tommies (38-6), who ran their season win streak to 13 and two-year postseason win streak to 15, advanced to Monday's championship round and need one more victory to win the tournament. They will play at 10 a.m. Monday vs. Wash. U, St. Mary's or Fontbonne. If they lose, a noon rematch will be played for the championship. UST is looking to reach the Division III national tournament for the third time in four seasons. Washington (46-2), had won 29 consecutive games and is the region's top-seed and the nation's No.1-rated team with 25 shutout wins. The Bears were no-hit through five innings by Janet Nagle, who had seven strikeouts and four walks. Freshman Maria Bye pitched the last two innings and gave up a sixth-inning single. Bye and Carrie Embree each had two hits. Embree's two-run single keyed a three-run third inning; Bye had a two-run homer in the fifth after a Kristi Huegel double; Nikki Conway had an RBI double in the fourth; and Mandy Evans had an RBI hit in the second inning. Saturday's game Nikki Conway homered twice and Janet Nagle held Coe to one run as St. Thomas scored an 8-1 win over the sixth-ranked Kohawks in their winner's bracket game Saturday in the NCAA Division III Softball Regional tourney in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. MIAC Tournament Friday, 5/6/05 (Score: 3-0, 1st) Junior Janet Nagle threw a two-hit shutout and moved her career record to 34-0 vs. conference opponents to lead St. Thomas a 3-0 victory over St. Mary's in Saturday's championship round of the MIAC softball tournament in Arden Hills. St. Thomas (36-6) went 3-0 on the weekend to repeat as MIAC postseason champs. The Tommies qualified for the NCAA regional tournament for the eighth time in nine seasons. On Sunday night UST will learn its assignment for next weekend's double-elimination regionals. The No. 12-ranked Tommies ran their win streak to 11 and are 55-1 vs. MIAC foes since April 2003. They've have won 13 consecutive postseason games dating back to last season and are 19-5 in postseason play in five seasons under Coach John Tschida. Nagle was named tournament MVP. In three tournament appearances, Nagle allowed one run, six hits and four walks with 15 strikeouts in 16 1-3 innings. Freshman Maria Bye was UST's offensive star -- she went 2-for-2 Saturday in UST's seven-hit attack, and was 5-for-5 with three RBI in two tourney wins over SMU. Nagle worked out of jams in the top of the second and top of the seventh. In the seventh, a two-out single and a four-pitch walk brought up the tying run to the plate. SMU's Regan Cahanes worked to a 3-2 count then grounded to short to end the game. In the second, with two on and one out, UST first-baseman Carrie Embree caught a line drive and doubled off a runner at first to end the threat. In UST's second, Bye singled, Embree reached on an error and both were bunted over second and third. Mandy Evans' bloop single to right made it 1-0, and Embree scored on the throw in to make it 2-0. Evans was later out at home trying to score after a ground out. UST made it 3-0 in the sixth on Kristi Huegel's leadoff double and Bye's RBI single. St. Mary's (33-10) had beaten Gustavus 1-0 earlier Saturday -- its second shutout win of the Gusties in as many days. After scoring three first-inning runs Friday in its opening win over Gustavus, St. Mary's scored just two runs in its next 25 at-bats. The Cards stranded 30 runners in their four games. 2005 MIAC Softball All-Tournament Team Most Valuable Player Janet Nagle, Pitcher, University of St. Thomas Infielders Mandy Evans, University of St. Thomas Kristi Huegel, University of St. Thomas Michelle Wong, University of St. Thomas Outfielders Kristina Trapp, University of St. Thomas Pitchers Janet Nagle, University of St. Thomas At-Large Maria Bye, University of St. Thomas Carrie Embree, University of St. Thomas Friday Games Freshman Maria Bye went 3-for-3 with a pair of run-scoring singles and allowed one run in 4 2-3 innings to get the pitching win to lead top-seeded St. Thomas softball team to a 6-1 victory over second-seed St. Mary's in Friday's winner's bracket game in Arden Hills. The Cardinals (33-9) had only four hits and struck out 13 times, but were issued eight walks. They left 11 runners on base, including the bases loaded in the sixth and seventh innings after they had fallen behind by six runs. The Tommies (35-6), who have won 10 in a row, got hits from eight different players in a 10-hit attack. UST used a two-out walk to Kristi Huegel and singles from Katie Wiberg, Bye and Carrie Embree to take a 2-0 first-inning lead. Mandy Evans doubled and scored in the fourth for a 3-0 lead. The Toms added three runs in the fifth as Bye had her second RBI single of the game. SMU stranded two runners in the second and fifth innings and three in the sixth. They loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, then Bye walked in a run. Game two starter Janet Nagle, who won game one over Hamline, came back into the game and got a strikeout and pop out to close out the victory. Nagle walked three runners in the second inning and was replaced by Bye, who worked from the second into the seventh inning and fanned eight. The Toms will play at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bethel against the winner of the 11 a.m. game between St. Mary's and Gustavus (a 3-1 winner over Hamline in the first elimination game). The Cards or Gusties will have to win three times Saturday, and beat the Toms twice, to win the tournament out of the loser's bracket. Game 1: St. Thomas 2, Hamline 1 Top-seed St. Thomas used sacrifice flies in the first and second innings and scored a 2-1 victory over fourth-seed Hamline Friday in a first-round game at the MIAC Softball Tournament in Arden Hills. Junior Janet Nagle allowed four hits and no walks with seven strikeouts and got the pitching win for the 12th-ranked Tommies (34-6), who scored runs in the first and second innings for a 2-0 lead. Kristi Huegel had two of the Toms' four hits. Nikki Conway opened the first and reached second on a two-base error and took third on another error. She scored on Michelle Wong's sacrfice fly. Carrie Embree singled, stole second, took third on a sacrifice and scored on Mandy Evans' fly in the second. The Pipers (21-19) scored once in the sixth inning on a two-out single and an RBI double, but the tying run was stranded. Hamline got the tying run on base in the top of the seventh on an error, but a pop out and two strikeouts ended the game. No. 2-seed St. Mary's scored three first-inning runs en route to a 3-0 win over third-seed Gustavus in the other first-round game. 2003 Season in Review - Seventh consecutive 30-win season - 20 MIAC victories - Nationally ranked throughout season - First Division III All-American - 3 Academic All-District Honorees - MIAC-record 36 home runs in 38 games |
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