The top-seeded LIU Post softball team fell 2-0 to fifth-seeded Grand Valley State University Friday afternoon at the Regency Athletic Complex on the campus of the Metropolitan State University of Denver on the second day of the 2019 NCAA Division II Softball Championship.
The top-seeded LIU Post softball team dropped its opening game at the NCAA Division II Softball Championship 9-4 to No. 8 seed Young Harris College Thursday afternoon.
The Pioneers kept their historic season alive with a 2-1 victory in extra innings against top-seeded Saint Anselm College to claim the NCAA Division II East Region title for the fifth time.
The second-seeded LIU Post softball team opened the NCAA Division II East Super Regional with a 5-1 victory against top-seeded Saint Anselm College at the South Athletic Fields.
East Coast Conference Softball Player of the Year, Julia Seader of LIU Post, headlines the league's All-East Region selections as a consensus First Team pick in addition to earning the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA) East Region Player of the Year honor.
Second-seeded LIU Post softball team came from behind to defeat No. 6 seed Adelphi University by a 4-2 margin in a winners' bracket game during the NCAA Division II softball championship.
Making the program's first NCAA Division II National Championship Tournament appearance in 30 years, the number eight seed, University of Bridgeport softball team fell to the host and top-seeded St. Anselm College Hawks, 3-1.
Junior Katie Humhej tossed a shutout during the opening round of the NCAA Division II Championship to help lead the second-seeded LIU Post softball team to a 2-0 victory against No. 7 seed University of New Haven at Asbury Field on Thursday, May 9.
The University of Bridgeport softball team made history on Saturday afternoon winning the school's first-ever East Coast Conference Championship, as the second-seeded Purple Knights blanked the top-seeded LIU Post for the second straight day winning on Pioneers' home field, 3-0.
Brilliant pitching by Amanda Staheli (Gr., Pecatonica, Ill.) and a big three-run home run by senior Kamryn Beach (Tampa, Fla.) in the bottom of the fourth inning helped lift the second-seeded University of Bridgeport softball to team to a 4-0 win over the top-seeded LIU Post Pioneers (45-9 on the season) on Friday morning on LIUP's home field.
Heading into the final inning trailing 1-0, St. Thomas Aquinas' softball team rallied for three runs in the seventh to beat NYIT and advance in the ECC Softball Championship.
Despite falling in the opening game to the University of Bridgeport, the LIU Post softball team bounced back with a big win in an elimination game against Saint Thomas Aquinas on day two of the East Coast Conference Championship on Friday, May 3.
A two-out double down the left field line by junior Allison Luzzi (East Haven, Conn.) scored classmate Abbigail Blanchard (Pawcatuck, Conn.) from first base with game-winning run, as the second-seeded University of Bridgeport Purple Knights topped the third-seeded St. Thomas Aquinas College Spartans, 6-5, in an 11-inning marathon to open the 2019 East Coast Conference Softball Championship Tournament.
The LIU Post softball team extended its win-streak to 11 games on Wednesday, May 1 as it took down No. 4 seed New York Institute of Technology by a 3-2 final in game one of the East Coast Conference championship at the LIU Post Softball Complex.
LIU Post, Bridgeport, St. Thomas Aquinas, and NYIT are the four teams that will compete with an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II Softball Championship on the line.