First-year student Kaylee Mushinski saved the biggest of her record-setting 60 hits and 60 runs batted in for her final at-bat of the season, delivering a walk-off single during the bottom of the seventh inning to send the Penn State Brandywine softball team to its first USCAA national championship, as the second-seeded Lions bested No. 9 Mississippi University for Women 10-9 on May 18.
The Black Bears beat the Eagles in their most-recent meeting five years ago. In other news, CMCC softball opened its spring with a doubleheader and a pair of former Lewiston Blue Devils now in Bangor win awards.