LA PLUME, Pa. – The Cabrini softball team secured the number two seed and a first round bye in the upcoming Colonial States Athletic Conference tournament with today's regular season ending sweep at Keystone College.
 
The Cavaliers recorded 1-0 and 6-1 wins to close the regular season with an overall record of 23-15, including 19-3 in conference play.  This marks the program's third consecutive 20 win season and matches last season's 19 conference victories for the most since 2004.

The Blue and White earned its first win of the day on the strength of dominant pitching performances by junior Kiley Sharp and freshman Jenna Rodriguez.  Sharp tossed five innings of one hit ball, with one walk and one strike out to secure her fifth win of the season.

Rodriguez claimed her first save of the season, after keeping the Giants off the base paths during the sixth and seventh innings.

Senior Kaitlyn Cooper provided all the offense Cabrini needed, as her single to left field scored junior Taylor Mack in the third inning.

Cooper accounted for two of the Cavaliers' five hits in the win, notching her eighth double of the campaign.  Mack added a pair of base hits and a stolen base to her game-winning run.

After a slow offensive start to the nightcap, the Cavaliers found their bats in the second game.  Cabrini pounded out 13 hits, including a pair of home runs, in the victory.

Keystone grabbed an early lead, tallying an unearned run in the bottom of the first inning.  The Blue and White grabbed the lead in the top of the third inning as freshman Darian Caputo scored after sophomore Christine Ferraro's sacrifice bunt resulted in two errors.  Ferraro eventually scored on a two out single by freshman Marissa Alpaugh.

The slim 2-1 lead was all sophomore Jess Giordano needed, as the rightie shut down the Keystone offense over the next five innings.  The sophomore improved to 12-5 on the year with the complete game victory, holding the Giants to just three hits.

Despite Giordano's control of the pitcher's circle, the Cabrini offense was not satisfied.  The Cavaliers tacked on a pair of runs in the fifth inning, as junior Lindsey Savar's team leading seventh home run plated Giordano.

Cabrini went yard again in the seventh inning, as junior Amber Dietrich provided a pair of insurance runs with a two run bomb to left center field, her fourth of the year, scoring sophomore Sarah Beckner.

Eight Cavaliers tallied base knocks in the win, led by Alpaugh's three hits, while Ferraro, Giordano and sophomore Emily Smull added two hits each.  Ferrarro also recorded her CSAC leading 21st stolen base in the win.

By virtue of today's wins, the Cavaliers have earned their spot in Friday's CSAC Championship Day One, the league's double-elimination championship tournament, to be held at number one seed Neumann.  Cabrini must wait until the results of Wednesday's opening round games to learn its opponent and game time.

The Cavaliers have advanced to the second championship day in each of the last two years, before falling to eventual champion Neumann.