Five IUP softball players were named to the All-PSAC West team while four were selected to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic Region all-star squad for the 2007 season.

First baseman Hilary Tutrani was named first team all-conference and four players made the second team, including outfielders Becky Lewis and Alex Daughenbaugh, pitcher Jenny Shaffer and designated player Sara Tripoli.

IUP had the second most players on the All-PSAC West team, trailing only defending national champion Lock Haven.  Tutrani is on the team for the third time and moved up from the second team the past two years.  Lewis and Daughenbaugh were also second team selections last season.

Tripoli was chosen first team all-region while Tutrani, Daughenbaugh and catcher Sam Goettman were tabbed to the second team.

Tutrani, a senior from Spring-Ford High School, was second on the team in batting at .327 (48-for-147), led the Crimson Hawks in home runs with seven and RBIs with 35 and tied for second with nine doubles.  She had 14 multiple hit games, including six in a row at one stretch midway through the season when she was named the PSAC West Player of the Week.

Tutrani had two homers and drove in five runs in a late season win over Slippery Rock and also had four hits and five RBIs in a victory over Clarion.  She ranked in a tie for 10^th in the PSAC in home runs and placed 11^th in the conference in RBIs and 27^th in batting average.

Her numbers this year put her in a tie for second in RBIs in the IUP single season record book and she is also tied for fifth in total bases (78), tied for sixth in home runs and tied for 10^th in hits.  Tutrani stands sixth in career home runs in IUP history (14), eighth in RBIs (77), seventh in walks (36) and ninth in total bases (177).  She was a career .296 hitter (116-for-393).

Lewis, a senior from Seneca Valley High School, was the 2004 PSAC West Rookie of the Year in addition to her two nods on the all-conference team.  This season she batted .282 (42-for-149) out of the leadoff spot with four doubles and 21 runs scored to go along with four stolen bases.   

Her 42 hits were the third most on the team and she was fourth in runs.  Lewis had a four-hit game with three runs scored in a win over Clarion and two other games with three base hits.

Lewis played in 156 games in her four-year career, the 10^th most in school history, and she ranks in the top 15 in six other categories.  She is third in stolen bases (25), fourth in at bats (510), seventh in hits (147), tied for seventh in runs scored (88), 10^th in total bases (169), 11^th in doubles (20).  She posted a career batting average of .288.

Daughenbaugh, a sophomore from Dallastown High School, was one of the top hitters in the PSAC during the 2007 campaign.  She was 10^th in the conference with a batting average of .377 (60-for-159) and was tied for eighth in hits and tied for 14^th with eight stolen bases.  Her hit total of 60 tied Angela Hileman’s school record.

Her batting average was the eighth best in IUP history and she also placed among the all-time single season leaders in at bats (third with 159), total bases (tied for fifth with 78) and doubles (tied for 10^th with 10).  Daughenbaugh also led the Crimson Hawks in runs scored with 26, banged out two homers and drove in 19 runs.

Daughenbaugh went consecutive games without a base hit only once during the season and had 21 games with two or more hits.  That total included 12 multiple hit performances in a span of 15 games, including a 4-for-4 game against Clarion.

In two seasons at IUP, Daughenbaugh has 97 hits in 271 at bats for a .358 batting average, the third highest career mark in school annals.  Her slugging percentage of .458 places her 11^th on the career list.

Shaffer, a sophomore from Brookville High School, was in the PSAC leaders in six categories.  She won 11 games, the ninth most in the conference, and her ERA of 2.78 was 13^th.  Shaffer also saved two games, a figure eclipsed by only one other pitcher in the league, and she was sixth in complete games (19) and innings pitched (166.0) and ninth in strikeouts (93).

Shaffer was named the PSAC West Pitcher of the Week the final week of the regular season when she won three games and saved another in a span of five days.  She had a pair of shutouts during the season, blanking Wheeling Jesuit and Edinboro.  Shaffer also batted .250 (15-for-60) with three doubles and six RBIs. 

In the all-time IUP career pitching record book, Shaffer ranks sixth in strikeouts (129), seventh in appearances (47), complete games (26) and innings (229.1), eighth in wins (16), tied for second in saves (three) and 11^th in ERA (3.05).

Tripoli, a junior from Loyalsock High School, split time between catcher and the designated player role and finished the season with a batting average of .289 (41-for-142) with nine doubles, five homers, 25 runs scored and 22 RBIs.  She was second on the team in RBIs, tied for second in doubles, third in batting average, home runs and runs and fourth in hits.

Tripoli slammed two homers and drove in three runs in a win over perennial PSAC and region power Shippensburg and had a 4-for-4 effort with a homer, three runs scored and four RBIs to lead the Crimson Hawks to a win over Shepherd.  She had a total of nine multiple hit games for the year.

Goettman, a freshman from North Allegheny High School, had an outstanding debut campaign for IUP.  She was third on the team and finished in a tie for 12^th in the PSAC with five home runs and was also third on the Crimson Hawks with 19 RBIs.  Goettman batted .264 (32-for-121), had four doubles and committed only two errors in 173 chances behind the plate.

Her five home runs is tied for the ninth highest single season figure in IUP history and is tied for the 12^th most in a career.  During IUP’s spring trip to Florida, Goettman had a two-homer game with three hits, three runs scored and five RBIs against Caldwell and later had a home run and drove in three runs against regional power Kutztown.

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