Skip To Main Content
Skip To Main Content

The Official Home of Goldey-Beacom College Athletics

CACC Unveils Softball’s Preseason Poll

Beres19-7pic

Softball | 2/4/2020 12:00:00 AM



Goldey-Beacom once again will face tough competition as the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference released its 2020 preseason poll, based on a votes of the league's coaches.
 
Senior Kasey Goshorn (Salisbury, MD) last season was one of the area's top hitters and this year looks for another standout campaign.  The only returnee to start all 46 games last season, she ended 10th in the league with 10 doubles, seventh with 232 putouts, 14th with a .427 on-base percentage and 41st with a .314 batting average.  Goshorn also begins 2020 tied for 10th in team history with four home runs.
 
Junior Zoe Lockwood (Chesapeake City, MD) once again gives the Lightning stability in the outfield after starting all 45 games she played last season.  A solid hitter, runner and fielder, she closed last season 42nd in the CACC with a career-high 39 hits and led the squad with 13 multi-hit contests.
 
Junior Taylor Beres (Middletown, DE) is back in the circle and once again seeks to be one of the Lightning's top pitchers.  A great teammate and a great leader, she finished 2019 fifth in the CACC with three shutouts, sixth with 15 complete games and eighth with 139 innings.  Beres also enters the year fifth in school history with 154 strikeouts, eighth with 242 innings pitched and 17th with 10 wins.
 
Goldey-Beacom opens its season February 14 against Shippensburg, part of a six-game trip to Myrtle Beach, SC.  GBC is scheduled to play eight teams which last season ended regionally ranked (Shippensburg, Kutztown, West Chester, Bloomsburg, Wilmington, Georgian Court, Caldwell and Dominican-NY).
 
Goldey-Beacom twice in the last four years was presented the league's team Sportsmanship Award.  The squad for five straight years participated in collecting turkeys and assembling food baskets for the New Castle (DE) County EMS Division Paramedics.  The team took to the Wilmington organization just before Thanksgiving to help cheer up needy families and provide gifts for those underprivileged in the county.
 
The Lightning a season ago faced a challenging schedule that included games against three teams who eventually were nationally ranked.  This included a game in which it had the lead against fourth-ranked Saint Anselm, which the following week moved up to number one in the country.
 
Wilmington (DE) was picked to win the league, gaining nine first-place votes.
 
2020 CACC Softball Preseason Poll
 
1. Wilmington (DE)           177 pts. (9 first-place votes)
2. Caldwell                        166 pts. (3)
3. Georgian Court             165 pts. (1)
4. Dominican (NY)            147 pts. (1)
5. Post                               128 pts.
6. Jefferson                       119 pts.
7. Nyack                            100 pts.
8. Bloomfield                       86 pts.
9. Felician                           81 pts.
T10. Chestnut Hill               74 pts.
T10. U. of the Sciences      74 pts.
12. Concordia (NY)             52 pts.
13. Goldey-Beacom            47 pts.
14. Holy Family                   40 pts.
 
Print Friendly Version

Players Mentioned

Taylor Beres

#15 Taylor Beres

P
5' 4"
Junior
R/R
Kasey Goshorn

#17 Kasey Goshorn

1B
5' 3"
Senior
R/R
Zoe Lockwood

#2 Zoe Lockwood

OF
5' 1"
Junior
L/R

Players Mentioned

Taylor Beres

#15 Taylor Beres

5' 4"
Junior
R/R
P
Kasey Goshorn

#17 Kasey Goshorn

5' 3"
Senior
R/R
1B
Zoe Lockwood

#2 Zoe Lockwood

5' 1"
Junior
L/R
OF