Flash Points:

• SFU Softball placed three players on the Great Lakes All-Region team on Thursday.
• Senior pitcher Ethel Santai (Pine Grove, Pa./Pine Grove Area), the NEC Pitcher of the Year, was selected Second Team.
• Junior shortstop Jordan Seneca (Plum, Pa./Plum) and freshman pitcher Abby Trahan (Kaplan, La./Kaplan) were named Third Team.
• The Red Flash, making its first NCAA Tournament appearances, takes on South Carolina on Friday at 7 p.m. on ESPN3.

All-Region Teams

LORETTO, Pa. – The Saint Francis Softball team landed three players on the Great Lakes All-Region Teams on Thursday.  Senior pitcher Ethel Santai (Pine Grove, Pa./Pine Grove Area) was named Second Team All-Region, while freshman pitcher Abby Trahan (Kaplan, La./Kaplan) and junior shortstop Jordan Seneca (Plum, Pa./Plum) were selected Third Team All-Region.
 
The three helped the Red Flash to its first Northeast Conference Title and NCAA Tournament appearance.  Saint Francis is 48-9 overall, setting SFU and NEC wins records.  The Red Flash went 16-0 in the NEC during the regular season and won all three games in the NEC Tournament to become the first NEC team to go undefeated in conference play.  SFU and Florida State are the only Division I teams that went undefeated against conference opponents this season.
 
Saint Francis is riding a 21-game win streak, a program record, into Friday's regional opener against South Carolina.  The Red Flash is the No. 3 seed in the Tucson Regional, battling the No. 2 seeded Gamecocks on Friday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN3.  The Regional is hosted by Arizona, the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.  New Mexico State is the No. 4 seed in the regional.  Saint Francis has won 36 of its last 37 games.  SFU is ranked No. 25 in the HERO Sports Poll and received 10 votes in this week's USA Today/NFCA Coaches Poll.
 
Santai earned a Second Team All-Region selection after becoming SFU's first ever NEC Pitcher of the Year.  She won five NEC Pitcher of the Week honors this season and was named NEC All-Tournament last weekend.  Santai leads the NEC with a 1.62 ERA.  She owns an 18-1 record, one win off the SFU season record. 
 
In NEC games, Santai went 8-0 with a 1.19 ERA in 10 appearances (seven starts).  She threw 3.2 innings in the NEC Championship game vs. Wagner to earn the win.  Santai threw a perfect game in an 11-0 win over East Carolina on March 18, needing just 51 pitches to get through five perfect innings.  Santai threw a six-inning No-Hitter at Bryant on April 22, allowing just four baserunners and striking out five batters.  Santai has nine outings this year in which she has pitched at least five innings and allowed one or less earned runs. 
 
Seneca is an All-Region selection for the second straight year after also being named Third Team All-Region last season.  The two-time First Team All-NEC shortstop is batting .288 with 21 homers, 64 RBI and 62 runs scored.  Seneca also has 22 steals, an SFU season record, to become the first NEC player to ever have 20 home runs and 20 steals in the sesame season and is the first Division I player to accomplish that since Longwood'z Megan Baltzell in 2015. 
 
The Plum, Pa. native's 21 homers this year are an SFU and NEC season record and rank third in the nation this season.  Seneca has hit more home runs this year than 88 Division I teams.  Seneca has set a new SFU season record with 64 RBI and is tied for the NEC record with Monmouth's Heather Gordon (2007).  Seneca has accounted for 126 runs this season, more than 20 Division I teams. Seneca became just the 11th player in NCAA history to hit two grand slams in a game in a 12-10 win over Texas Tech on March 17, leading to being named National Player of the Week by FastPitchNews.
 
Trahan is a third team All-Region selection after being SFU's third NEC Rookie of the Year selection.  She is 15-3, with three saves, in 33 appearances (13 starts).  Trahan has a 2.12 ERA in 119 innings, with 100 strikeouts and 21 walks.  Opponents are batting just .198 against Trahan.  In NEC play, Trahan went 3-0 with an 0.31 ERA and struck out 34 of the 76 batters she faced.  In the NEC Tournament, Trahan appeared in all three games, going a total of 7.2 innings, allowing just one run on four hits and striking out seven batters.  Trahan threw a six-inning No-Hitter against Cleveland State on February 19, just one error away from a Perfect Game.  She won one NEC Player of the Week and five NEC Rookie of the Week awards this season.