Messina continued to post stellar numbers in her freshman campaign, as she went 3-1 last week. She posted a 0.85 earned run average over 24.2 innings last week, while only walking three. She limited her opponents to just 13 hits over that stretch, while striking out an astounding 35 batters to average 1.42 Ks per innings. She posted a career-high 13 Ks in her complete game shutout victory over Fairfield and then recorded five more strikeouts over 2.2 innings of relief in the second game of that doubleheader. On Sunday against Mount St. Mary’s she fanned 11 in game one and then took the ball again for game two, striking out six, while allowing just two hits and two unearned runs. She finished Sunday’s NEC doubleheader with a 1-1 record after she struck out 17 and walked only one hitter over two starts and 15 innings.