Bucknell softball continues YAIAA tradition
Bucknell Softball has a YAIAA flavor this season with two local alumni on the Bison squad.
Hanover graduate Ashley Beans has played in 39 of the 41 games her team has played. The speedy outfielder is hitting .280 (26-for-93) and has a team-high nine doubles. She also has a triple a home run and leads the team with 21 walks.
The junior has been a constant in the Bison (15-26) lineup for three season and was even a second team all-Patriot League selection as a freshman in 2006. Perhaps most impressive is her Patriot League academic honor roll selection in each of her first two seasons.
Beans played four sports during her high school career with the Hawkettes, softball, basketball, tennis and even ran track one year.
Katie McDonald is also a junior with at Bucknell and made 21 appearances, 16 starts this season. The righty is 7-12 with a 5.08 ERA.
The former Bulldog standout, who also played basketball in high school, was 4-6 last season and held opponents to two runs or less eight of her final nine games she appeared in. She was a YAIAA Division II Player of the Year her senior season at West York.
Former Dover standout Lauren Wible was a member of the Bucknell softball team before graduating in 2006.
Other local grads in college: Recently Eastern York alum Wyatt Eaton was a member of the Elizabethtown College 400 meter relay team that placed second in the Messiah Invitational track meet.
Leah Cressman, a Christian School of York graduate played on the soccer team at Huntington University. The junior is a business management major and was recently inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma national honor society.
Chi Signa recognizes collegiate student-athletes who earn a varsity letter while maintaining a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
Huntington is Christian liberal arts university located Huntington Ind.
