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Posted: May 08, 2012

Three Roaring Lions Earn Postseason Softball Conference Awards

May 8, 2012

 

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Three Penn State Fayette softball players were recognized in the recently release Pennsylvania State University Athletic Conference postseason awards.

 

Freshman Katie Volek (Smithfield, Pa.) was named the PSUAC's Newcomer of the Year, giving the Roaring Lions their fourth such award of the year, and Volek also earned PSUAC First Team honors.

 

Freshmen Shelby Dziak (Eighty Four, Pa.) and Moriah Kromer (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) earned PSUAC Honorable Mention in their first seasons with the Roaring Lions.

 

Volek becomes the fourth Fayette female student-athlete to win a conference Newcomer of the Year award in the past two years, joining Jill Guthrie (Women's Basketball, 2010-11), Janelle Cooper (Women's Volleyball, 2011) and Caitlin Wontroba (Women's Basketball, 2011-12).

 

Volek appeared in 16 games for Fayette, batting .519 with a slugging percentage of .906 before an ankle injury in mid-April sidelined her the remainder of the season. Despite missing 12 games, Volek finished second on the team in RBIs with 20, and picked up a win on the mound for Fayette in three appearances. Of her 28 hits, 11 went for extra bases, including three home runs, good for fifth best in the PSUAC, and eight doubles.

 

Dziak finished fourth in doubles in the PSUAC with nine and eighth in hits with 33, primarily batting in the lead-off spot in 28 games for Fayette. Dziak batted .347 for the Roaring Lions to finish second on the team behind Kromer, and added 15 RBIs. Not only was Dziak consistent at the plate, but she provided the Roaring Lions with strong defense behind it, committing only two errors in 167 chances as the team's primary catcher, good for a team-high .988 fielding percentage.

 

Kromer appeared in all 28 of the Roaring Lions' games, hitting .374 to lead Fayette and finish 13th in the PSUAC. Kromer led the PSUAC with six triples, and also added a home run and five stolen bases for the Roaring Lions. Her 26 runs scored were the sixth-most in the PSUAC, and her 34 hits led Fayette. On the mound, Kromer was fourth in the PSUAC in ERA at 3.01, while picking up a team-best six wins. In 90 2/3 innings, Kromer struck out 88 batters, and finished second in the PSUAC with 6.79 strikeouts per game.

 

The Roaring Lions finished 13-15, 9-7 in the PSUAC, in 2012, narrowly missing the conference playoffs by one game for the third straight season. Fayette returns nine players, including eight starters, for 2013.