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Box Score
WASHINGTON, Pa. (May 3) – The Yellow Jackets suffered a 2-1 loss against Bethany College at Brooks Park on Saturday afternoon in the championship game of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Tournament.
Waynesburg University, who entered the double-elimination tournament as the fourth-seed, finishes the year with a 19-19 overall record. The 19 wins is the highest single-season total in recent program history. Meanwhile, Bethany College improves to 22-21 and earns the automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament after winning the PAC Tournament with a perfect 3-0 record.
Freshman starter
Amanda Baughman (Washington, Pa./Washington) (6-9) suffered the loss for the Yellow Jackets after allowing two runs on five hits in 5.0 innings with no walks and three strikeouts. Senior hurler Heather Immesberger (16-8) earned the complete-game victory for the third-seeded Bison, scattering one run on four hits, fanning 12 and walking two.
Waynesburg jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second when junior first baseman
Autumn Minor (Waynesburg, Pa./Waynesburg Central) belted a solo homer to left field – her sixth of the season and second of the tournament. Bethany answered the Yellow Jackets' tally in the third when center fielder Brittany Leslie belted a solo shot of her own to even the score at 1-1.
The Bison rallied for a run in the fifth to take the lead, using a two-out double by left fielder Chelsea Butler to score pinch runner Nikki Gillis from second base.
The Yellow Jackets had runners in scoring position in both the sixth and seventh innings, but were unable to capitalize. In the sixth, senior right fielder
Amy Mills (Clear Spring, Md./Clear Spring) was called out at the plate when attempting to score from second on a one-out single by freshman center fielder
Amber Pivik (Washington, Pa./Washington). While in the seventh, the first two Waynesburg batters reached base with a walk, but the Yellow Jackets were unsuccessful on sacrifice bunt attempts with the next two batters before Immesberger forced a pop-out to end the game.
Four different Waynesburg players collected hits in the contest, as the Yellow Jackets left four runners on base.
The runner-up finish for Waynesburg is the second in the last four years, as the Yellow Jackets lost the 2005 conference championship game to the Bison at Bethany, W.Va.
