BOX SCORE - GAME ONE

BOX SCORE - GAME TWO

GROVE CITY, Pa. (Apr. 30) - The Saint Vincent softball team wrapped up the 2012 regular season with a Presidents' Athletic Conference doubleheader split at Grove City, dropping the first game, 3-0, before posting a 4-2 win in the nightcap.

With the split, the Bearcats win the regular season PAC Championship with a 13-5 league mark after claiming at least a share and hosting rights with a sweep of Westminster last week. SVC enters postseason play with a 24-14 overall record on the season. Grove City's season comes to a close with a 7-11 mark in PAC games and 19-21 showing on the year.

In the first game, SVC was shutout in a conference game for the first time on the season after leaving 13 runners on base. Junior Alyssa Grossman (4-3) suffered the loss after tossing the first 3.0 innings and yielding three hits, three earned runs and registering three strikeouts. Freshman Mikele Prokopovich pitched the final 3.0 innings and surrendered just one hit.

Junior Maria Adams and sophomore Becky Deane led the way for SVC in the first game as each recorded a pair of hits, while Deane also walked once.

In the nightcap, SVC scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning to take an early 2-0 lead. After sophomore Lindsey Daniels led off with a single and advanced on an error, freshman Shannon Baczek drove her home with an RBI single. Baczek later came in to score on and RBI single by sophomore Ally Vrcek.

The Bearcats added another run in the second inning. Senior Emily Petrowsky led off with a double to right center and scored on an RBI single by freshman Suzie Cool, 3-0.

Grove City tallied a pair of runs in the third inning off of SVC starter junior Emily Lauterbach, 3-2. In the bottom of the fifth, the Bearcats added an insurance run when Daniels scored on Vrcek's second RBI single of the game.

Lauterbach (10-3) earned her team-leading 10th win of the season after pitching the first 4.0 inning and giving up three hits and two runs (both earned). Vrcek earned her first save of the season in relief, throwing the final 3.0 innings and allowing just one hit while striking out four and walking one.

Daniels and Vrcek each had multi-hit games while Daniels scored two runs and Vrcek added two RBI. Baczek inched closer to the single-season hits record of 44, held by head coach Nicole Hinerman, by posting her 42nd hit of the year.

The Bearcats will now advance to the 2012 PAC Softball Tournament, where it will be the top seed and host and play fourth-seeded Geneva at 11 a.m. on Thursday morning at Saint Vincent Field in Latrobe.