Adams
Carnegie Mellon pitcher Gianna Adams showed vast improvement in the second month of her college softball career, putting up significantly better numbers in every category during April than she had in March.
The freshman from Pittston Area went 6-3 with a 1.43 earned run average in April after coming into the month 2-3 with a 4.60 ERA. She started eight games and pitched in another during April, working 58 2/3 innings and allowing 16 runs (12 earned) on 52 hits while striking out 65 and walking just seven.
Adams is 8-6 on the season, compared to Carnegie Mellon going 6-13 in games when other pitchers get the decision. She has completed 11 of her 14 starts and made seven relief appearances. Adams has a 92-29, strikeout-to-walk ratio in 104 1/3 innings.
The three-time Class 5A state high school Pitcher of the Year picked up her first two college shutouts.
Adams tossed a one-hit shutout with seven strikeouts April 11 in a 1-0 win over Brandeis.
On consecutive days the following weekend, Adams got the win over New York University, pitching Carnegie Mellon to a 4-1 victory and an 11-0 romp in five innings before NYU won 12-11 in the only game of the series in which Adams did not pitch.
Adams threw a four-hitter in the April 18 series opener when she took a two-hit shutout into the bottom of the seventh. After NYU scored on two hits, Adams ended the game with her 11th and 12th strikeouts, matching her season-high. In the opener to a doubleheader the next day, Adams struck out eight in five innings for her second shutout.
Adams has not batted this season, but she did steal a base in her one baserunning appearance.
