The NCAA announced a list of 517 school nominees for their 2016 Woman of the Year award on Tuesday afternoon. Among the nominees were three student-athletes from the East Coast Conference; Tracey Balinskas of Molloy, Dina Ragab of NYIT, and Marlena Wright of University of the District of Columbia.
East Coast Conference Player of the Year, Kat Zabielski of NYIT, has been named a National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division II All-America First Team selection.
New York Institute of Technology senior Kat Zabielski headlines the 2016 Division II Conference Commissioner Association (CCA) All-East Region Teams as she was named the Player of the year by a vote of the region’s sports information directors.
Needing a tall task and two victories over the host Adelphi University Panthers to win the NCAA East 2 Sub-Regional Tournament, the Molloy College softball team instead saw its season end at the hands of Adelphi.
After being named a Top 25 semifinalist, Kat Zabielski has moved on to being a Top-10 finalist for the Schutt/NFCA Division II Player of the Year award.
A two-run home run by Milan Botte (Reston, Va.) in the top of the third inning was the only offense needed for the Molloy College softball team as the Lions eliminated LIU Post from the NCAA Tournament with a 2-0 victory on Friday (May 6) at Janet L. Ficke Field on the campus of Adelphi University.
With an early start on Thursday (May 5) due to threats of inclement weather nearing the region, the seventh-seeded Molloy College softball team traveled to Janet L. Ficke Field on the campus of Adelphi University to take part in the NCAA East 2 Sub-Regional Tournament.
Following a tournament-opening loss, the No. 23 and second-seeded LIU Post softball team bounced back Thursday with an 8-0 win versus sixth-seeded Pace University in an elimination game of the 2016 NCAA Division II Championship East 2 Regional at Adelphi University's Janet L. Ficke Field.
East Coast Conference members LIU Post and Molloy College will compete for a National Championship after earning a spot in the NCAA Division II Softball Championship field released on Monday morning.
For the first time since 2013, the East Coast Conference Championship for softball will reside in Rockville Centre; the third-seeded Molloy College softball team, having defeated second-seeded LIU Post by a 4-0 score on Saturday (Apr. 30), are the queens of the diamond and the ECC champions.
One day removed from getting the Molloy College softball team into the winner's bracket of the 2016 East Coast Conference Softball Tournament, freshman outfielder Kaitlyn Snyder (Smithtown, N.Y.) and junior Milan Botte (Reston, Va.) collected three hits apiece to send the third-seeded Lions to an 8-5 win over top-seed NYIT on Friday (Apr. 29) and into ECC Championship Saturday.
On Friday, the second-seeded LIU Post softball team stayed alive in the 2016 East Coast Conference Championship with a 3-2 win over fourth-seeded University of Bridgeport at the NYIT Softball Field.
The No. 2 seed LIU Post softball team is set to return to the East Coast Conference Championship final for the fourth-straight year, after dispatching top-seeded New York Institute of Technology, 3-1, on Friday at the NYIT Softball Field.
The softball coaches of the East Coast Conference have voted NYIT senior firstbaseman, Kat Zabielski (Farmingdale, N.Y.) as the 2016 ECC Player of the Year.
A two-out opposite-field home run by Milan Botte (Reston, Va.) in the top of the ninth inning plus stellar relief pitching from Tracey Balinskas (Edison, N.J.) guided the Molloy College softball team to an emphatic and thrilling 5-4 extra-inning victory over LIU Post in the first game of the East Coast Conference softball tournament on Thursday (Apr. 28) in Old Westbury on the campus of NYIT.
The top-seeded NYIT softball team accounted for five home runs in a matter of two innings en route to a 10-5 victory over the fourth-seeded Purple Knights of Bridgeport Thursday afternoon in the first round of the East Coast Conference tournament.
The bracket for the upcoming East Coast Conference Softball Championship is set after the final day of the regular season. NYIT will host the tournament after clinching the ECC Regular Season Championship.
University of Bridgeport softball team partnered with PFX Athletics to spend their spring break working with the underprivileged youth of Clermont Elementary School in Clermont, Florida teaching about the benefits of receiving good grades and working hard in school.
The Purple Knights earned the second highest team grade point average of any team at any level recognized by the National Fastpitch Coaches' Association (NFCA) with a Top-10 Academic Team Honor.
On Sunday, the LIU Post softball team participated in the 14th-annual Cancer Center for Kids at Winthrop-University Hospital 5K Family Run/Walk at Eisenhower Park.