Say this about the Pacific Lutheran softball team: They play hard and celebrate fast. They came back from Virginia on Tuesday afternoon with the NCAA Division III National Championship trophy in hand, accepted the boisterous cheers and well-wishes of several hundred fans and classmates at the University Center, and then got back to business.
Say this about the Pacific Lutheran softball team: They play hard and celebrate fast.
Behind a brilliant run of pitching by senior Stacey Hagensen, the Pacific Lutheran University softball team is NCAA Division III champion.
SALEM, Va. – Erin Van Nostrand makes the same crack about her Pacific Lutheran University softball team.
Amanda Hall knows she has not been the steadiest contributor in her first season at Pacific Lutheran University.
There were so many reasons Pacific Lutheran could have come out a tad flat for the NCAA Division III Softball College World Series.
The Lutes business – an 8-0 victory in five innings over Luther College of Iowa.
TYLER, Texas – When Stacey Hagensen’s drop ball froze the opposing batter and was called for the final strike – the Pacific Lutheran University ace hesitated.
TYLER, Texas – Make no mistake, the Pacific Lutheran University softball team is in the catbird seat at the NCAA Division III regional championships.
The night before in team meetings, coach Erin Van Nostrand advised her Pacific Lutheran University players to try and string together base hits, and not try for home runs against Huntingdon (Ala.) College in the first round of the NCAA Division III regional softball championships.
Northwest Conference softball tournament champion Pacific Lutheran was awarded the No. 2 seed, and will open against seventh-seeded Huntingdon (Ala.) College in the first round of the NCAA Division III regional tournament in Tyler, Texas.
Tastes of the East Coast are badly missed. If it were up to Erin Van Nostrand, her perfect world would consist of New York-style pizza, lounging on warm New England beaches and taking in a slew of Boston Red Sox baseball games.
They have been known to dance on dugout benches, rap the names of animals, and spoof one another’s playing habits – all over the course of seven innings. Members of the Pacific Lutheran University women’s softball team are certainly a bit off-center, eccentric and goofy – but they are loose and winning big again.
The only deal coach Steve Dickerson made with the scorer’s table in Olson Auditorium on Saturday night was not to get any updates from other games around the Northwest Conference.
It is all coach Steve Dickerson and the Pacific Lutheran University men’s basketball team could want – a final chance.
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