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Penn-Trafford alum Lydia DeFazio named AMCC softball preseason player of year
Lydia DeFazio took the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference by storm last softball season.
After her breakthrough year, Mt. Aloysius can’t hide its secret weapon any more.
DeFazio, a junior who has played first base and catcher at the college level, was tabbed the AMCC Preseason Player of the Year, and the Mounties are favored to three-peat as conference champions.
A Penn-Trafford graduate, DeFazio is the reining AMCC Player of the Year. She led the conference in batting average (.586) and reached base every two out of three at-bats in AMCC play.
Overall, she batted .479 with nine home runs, 44 runs batted in and carried a .557 on-base percentage.
The Mounties won their second straight conference title and reached the NCAA Division III Tournament, winning a school-record 33 games in the process.
They reached the second round before falling to Arcadia and Randolph-Macon. Mt. Aloysius was the first AMCC team to make the national tournament.
Another first-team All-AMCC player from the WPIAL on the roster is sophomore pitcher Karlie Clark, a Yough graduate.
She finished 7-4 with a 2.64 ERA and a team-best 51 strikeouts in 712/3 innings.
Mt. Aloysius is scheduled to open the season March 11 at Saint Vincent.
SB | Softball Picked #1 in Preseason Poll, Lydia DeFazio Named Preseason Player of the Year https://t.co/jx3NmdaAzG— Mount Aloysius Athletics (@Mounties_Sports) February 18, 2020
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