CHESTER, Pa. – Sophomore Rachael Shady (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain) tossed a three-hit shutout and scored the game-winning run in the fourth inning of the opener to lead the Lycoming College softball team to a 1-0 win over MAC Commonwealth foe Widener University to help the team reach 20 wins for the first time since 2003 on Sunday, April 24. The Warriors fell in the second game of the doubleheader, 3-1, to conclude their 2016 season.
 
The win helped the Warriors (20-19 overall, 4-12 MAC Commonwealth) reach the 20-win mark for the sixth time in school history, as the squad finished above .500 for the first time since 2005 and the 12^th time in the program's 27 years.
 
It was Shady's second shutout of the year, as she finished the season with school records of 24 pitching appearances, 146 inning pitched and a record-tying 18 complete games, while she finished 10-9 with a 2.83 ERA and 84 strikeouts.
 
Alexis Schengrund struck out the first six batters she faced and eight of the first 11 after getting the first two outs of the fourth inning, but Shady ended the string by doubling into right center. Sophomore Heather Secord (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown Area) followed with a  single into right to score the run.
 
The two hits were all the Warriors would get, but it was all they needed. Shady didn't allow more than one baserunner in an inning during the game and let just two reach second base. To cap the game, she turned a double play, when catching a liner back to her and getting the ball over to first to gun down a runner that reached on a fielder's choice.
 
Shady struck out four batters and walked two. Schengrund allowed two hits and a walk while striking out 12.
 
In the second game, Katie Rabuck (7-0) throw a three-hitter for the Pride (27-7 overall) to help it to a 3-1 win.
 
Senior Kristi Weaver (Milton, Pa./Milton Area) (9-9) competed well in her final start, allowing eight hits and a walk, but just single runs in the first, second and fourth innings. She struck out two.
 
Down 3-0, in the sixth inning, the Warriors rallied thanks to senior Chelsey Poorman (Bellefonte, Pa./Bald Eagle Area), who drilled a triple to right field to lead off the sixth. A sac fly by senior Elisa Novak (Ambler, Pa./Germantown Academy) scored Poorman two batters later.
 
In the seventh inning, Secord singled to lead off to bring the tying run to the plate, but Rabuck got two popouts and a strikeout to end the inning.
 
Ally Horvath led the Pride, going 2-for-4 with an RBI.
 
Junior Morgan Kunes (Beech Creek, Pa./Central Mountain) had one of the finest offensive seasons in program history, as she hit .398 with 11 doubles (second in school history), five home runs (2^nd), 39 hits (4^th) and 24 RBI (6^th). Sophomore Ashley Schoenstadt (Gap, Pa./Pequea Valley) set program records for most at bats (127, 1^st) and she was second in program history with 13 stolen bases, third with 30 runs scored and fourth with 39 hits.
 
Weaver finished her career with a school-record 33 doubles, while her 348.1 innings pitched are fourth, 63 RBI, 40 complete games, 167 strikeouts, 27 wins, five shutouts, which are all fifth, 105 hits which is seventh and a 3.03 ERA which is eighth.