Westminster locks up third-straight PAC title with shutout of Geneva

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Box Score

Geneva GENEVA 34-10

Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS 30-9

Geneva GENEVA

34-10

Final

May. 04, 2026

Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS

30-9

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Geneva GENEVA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS	0	1	1	0	0	2	X	4	8	0

W: Piper, Cheyenne (18-3) L: McKenzie Rapp (11-6)

Game Recap: Softball | 5/4/2026 5:40:00 PM

Westminster locks up third-straight PAC title with shutout of Geneva

Piper named tournament's Most Outstanding Player for second-straight year

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.--Westminster scored a 4-0 victory over Geneva in the title game of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Softball Championship Tournament Monday afternoon, earning the program's third-straight conference championship.

Westminster, the championship tournament's top seed, improved to 30-9 with the win. It's the fourth 30-win season in program history. Westminster is the league's first to capture three-straight titles since Bethany won six straight from 1999-2005.

This was the 40th anniversary of declaring a softball champion in the PAC.

Sophomore Cheyenne Piper (Latrobe, Pa., Ligonier Valley) ran her season record to 18-3 with the shutout, her seventh this season. She allowed four hits and struck out 11 on 103 total pitches. Piper's 180 strikeouts rank No. 2 among the program's single-season leaders.

Sophomore Sam Levac (Oakville, Ontario, Canada, Garth Webb) got the Titans on the board with a one-out RBI base hit in the second, scoring sophomore Lily Jordan (Rural Valley, Pa., West Shamokin), who led off the half inning with a single. Jordan's sacrifice fly in the third scored sophomore Morgan O'Brien (Coraopolis, Pa., Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) after her one-out triple. Westminster scored a pair of sixth inning runs: Levac drew a one-out, bases loaded walk before senior Kelly Troup's (Mogadore, Ohio, Field) run-scoring single plated sophomore Sofia Ortiz (Erie, Pa., Fairview), who reached on a walk.

Junior Ava Karpa (Coraopolis, Pa., Moon) went 3-for-3. It was her 13th multi-hit game of the year. Junior Leah Taliani (Arnold, Pa., Valley) had a one-out bunt base hit in the sixth and drew a pair of walks.

Following Monday's win, Piper was honored as the championship tournament's Most Outstanding Player for the second-straight year. She was joined on the all-tournament team by freshman Kylie Anthony (Harrison City, Pa., Penn-Trafford), junior Faith Jones (Volant, Pa., Wilmington) and O'Brien.

Up next:
As the winner of this year's PAC championship tournament title, Westminster secured the league's automatic qualifying bid to the Division III Championship, with teams and regional site selections to be announced Monday, May 11 at 11 a.m. (EDT). Regional play will get underway Thursday-Saturday, May 14-16 with the Super Regionals scheduled for Thursday and Friday, May 21-22. The eight teams advancing from the Super Regionals will play in the Division III Championship finals, scheduled for May 28-June 3. The event will be hosted by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) and the City of Salem at Moyer Park in Salem, Va.

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