2010 News
Less than three weeks after throwing her last pitch for the Wittenberg Tiger softball team, Brooke Boswell, class of 2010 from Hamilton, Ohio, received a most appropriate graduation gift.
Brooke Boswell, class of 2010 from Hamilton, Ohio, did it all for the Wittenberg softball team over the last four years, and she was recently accorded yet another award from the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) with third-team All-Central Region honors.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Wittenberg placed four student-athletes on the 2010 All-North Coast Athletic Conference softball honor roll, led by junior Jessi Allen (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) and sophomore Tori Amicon (Galloway, Ohio/Hilliard Darby) on the first team.
Wittenberg University softball standout Cameron Catalfu, class of 2010 from Loveland, Ohio, has been recognized for the combination of her athletic and academic accomplishments with second-team CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America College Division All-District IV honors.
GRANVILLE, Ohio — After winning two games back-to-back on Friday to march to the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament Championship Game, the NCAC Tournament Title was just not in the cards as the Tigers dropped Game 2 to Denison by a final score of 6-2. The Big Red took the title and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Div. III Tournament.
GRANVILLE, Ohio — In 50 degree temperatures that felt like 42, and 40 mile-per-hour wind gusts, the Wittenberg softball team dropped the first of two championship games by a score of 4-1 in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament against the Denison Big Red on Saturday. The winner of Game 2 will claim the NCAC Tournament title and the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Div. III Tournament.
GRANVILLE, Ohio — The Wittenberg softball team got off to a solid start in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament on Friday, upsetting host and No. 1-seed Denison in a 3-1 decision. The Tigers won thanks to a strong outing from senior starting pitcher Brooke Boswell (Hamilton, Ohio/Fairfield), backed by some timely hitting.
GRANVILLE, Ohio — Facing a 5-4 deficit and a 2-2 count with two outs and two on in the Tigers' last chance in the top of the seventh, Wittenberg softball senior Amanda Delagrange (Akron, Ohio/Firestone) had to have known she was batting in what might have been the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament's defining moment.
HIRAM, Ohio — Already assured of a spot in the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament, the Wittenberg softball team played Hiram College on the road Saturday in a doubleheader with large implications for their regular season place. The Tigers dropped both ends by scores of 6-2 and 4-0, falling to 8-6 in the NCAC and 17-19 overall.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers started slow but finished with a bang to pick up a pair of victories over visiting Wooster. By scores of 3-2 in eight innings and 11-5, the Tigers swept the doubleheader and put themselves into the four-team North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Tournament.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The bats awakened in the second game of a key North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) doubleheader against visiting Kenyon College, and the result was a much-needed split for the Wittenberg Tigers.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg softball team played to a split with visiting Mount St. Joseph on a warm, sunny day at Betty Doughman Dillahunt Field in the first of four consecutive home engagements. The Tigers moved to 14-16 overall on the season.
GRANVILLE, Ohio - The Wittenberg softball team faced off with North Coast Athletic Conference first-place Denison Tuesday evening and came away with a 1-0, 3-7 split to hang tough in the race to the conference tournament. The Tigers moved to 5-3 in the NCAC and 13-15 overall.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- She started the day with a stirring rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, pulled off once again despite problems with the microphone. It ended with Haley Gerken's (Logan, Ohio/Logan) walk-off base hit in the eighth inning of Game 2 against Allegheny, which secured a clutch doubleheader sweep of the Gators that thrust the Tigers back into the tick of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) title chase.
Over the last two weeks, the Wittenberg Tigers have played some of the strangest doubleheaders - from a statistical standpoint - imaginable. Then came Saturday's split at North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) rival Oberlin.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — The Wittenberg Tigers came tantalizingly close to starting off the 2010 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) portion of their schedule with a clutch sweep of visiting Ohio Wesleyan, winning the opener 4-1 before losing a late lead and the nightcap by a 3-2 score.
