Softball Sees Three Picked D2CCA All-East Region

5/13/2025 12:00:00 AM

Goldey-Beacom received more all-region accolades as senior utility player Ariana Mirenda (Reading, PA) was named first team D2CCA All-East Region with senior pitcher Caitlyn Burch (Mechanicsville, MD) and senior designated player Wynter Radcliffe (Glen Burnie, DE) each tabbed second team.

This news comes after Radcliffe was named first team National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-East Region and Burch was picked second team. The three aforementioned all were tabbed first team All-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference.

Mirenda was a senior transfer who gave GBC another weapon on offense, providing great play both as an infielder and an outfielder. She was tied for the team lead this season with 20 multi-hit games and had a hit in 23 of her last 28 contests.

She was tied for first in the league with 10 triples (tied for second on the team's single-season list), fourth with 65 hits, 12th with 31 RBI and 16th with a .363 batting average.

Mirenda in 2021 was picked second team All-Atlantic East Conference with Wesley, the 2022 AEC Player of the Year at Cabrini and first team All-AEC with Cabrini the next two seasons.

Burch this season arrived in Pike Creek and provided immediate electricity, showing a dominance over opposing batters that gave the Lightning a decided edge. During the squad's play in the NCAA Tournament, she tossed the program's first no-hitter in at least the last 14 years during Goldey-Beacom's 5-0 win last Saturday over Southern New Hampshire.

She closed the NCAA Tournament 3-1 with 27 strikeouts and just two earned runs allowed over 31 1/3 innings.

In reaching 500 strikeouts for her career, Burch this year had 179 strikeouts that puts her second on the school's single-season list, sixth on the career list and second this season in the CACC. Her 21 victories is tops for GBC in single-season history, eighth on the career list and tied for first this year in the league.

At Mary Washington, Burch three times was picked first team All-Coast-to-Coast Conference and second team last spring. With Goldey-Beacom's volleyball squad last fall at middle blocker, Burch was tabbed first team all-league in helping a zero-win squad from 2023 notch 15 victories.

Radcliffe was a key option in the batter's box and in the circle. At the plate, she paced the Lightning with six three-hit games and had an RBI in six consecutive contests late in the campaign. In the circle, she struck out six over five innings March 1 vs. Saint Thomas Aquinas.

She was tied for seventh in the league with a .392 batting average, tied for 15th with 46 hits and tied for 18th with 25 RBI.

The current run is part of a resurgence under fourth-year coach Juli Greep, who has recorded 122 victories in that time and brought in a renewed sense of energy that has catapulted the Lightning to this point.

Goldey-Beacom (40-16) this season provided history, pride and memories that will live for many years. The squad notched the most single-season victories for any team in the Athletic Department's 35-year history, became the first GBC program to host an NCAA Tournament event on the Pike Creek campus and played in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.

The Lightning also made the CACC Tournament in three consecutive seasons for the first time in 19 years and won multiple games in said tournament in back-to-back seasons for the first time.

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