SUNY Cortland senior pitcher Katie Finch (Amsterdam/Broadalbin-Perth) and junior second baseman Donnalyn Cross (Binghamton/Chenango Valley) have been honored as the top players in State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) softball for the 2010 season. Finch has been named the SUNYAC Pitcher of the Year for the third straight season. Cross is the league's Player of the Year after sharing that honor as a sophomore.

In addition, Cortland's 16th-year head coach Julie Lenhart has been chosen as the SUNYAC Coach of the Year for the fourth time after guiding the Red Dragons to an 18-0 regular-season league mark and a 4-0 record to win the SUNYAC tournament crown. Lenhart is 517-206-1 as Cortland's head coach and has 637 career victories, including four seasons at Wisconsin-Platteville. Cortland brings a 38-6 overall record into NCAA Div. III regional play at Ithaca College on Thursday, May 13.

Finch and Cross are joined by senior first baseman Emily Ringen (Pompton Plains, NJ/Pequannock), freshman outfielder Lucia Meola (Liverpool/Cicero-North Syracuse) and sophomore outfielder Lorraine Stoddard (Liverpool) on the All-SUNYAC first team.

Finch is 25-2 with a 0.60 ERA and two saves. In 163 innings pitched, she has allowed only 74 hits and 19 walks and has struck out 238 batters. She ranks second nationally in Div. III in ERA, shutouts (12) and hits allowed per seven innings (3.2), fifth in wins and eighth in strikeouts per seven innings (10.2). She has thrown three no-hitters this season, including two perfect games, and has seven career no-hitters. Finch is only five strikeouts away from becoming the 11th pitcher in NCAA Div. III history to reach the career 1,000 mark.

Cross is Cortland's leader with a .417 batting average, 13 triples, 44 runs scored and 19 stolen bases in 43 games. Her .458 on-base percentage ranks second on the team, and she boasts a .959 fielding percentage (seven errors in 171 total fielding chances).

Ringen is hitting .406 with three homers and a team-high 34 RBI. She also leads the team with a .467 on-base percentage and is second with 10 doubles and 16 walks in 44 games. Ringen has committed only one error in 299 total chances for a .997 fielding percentage.

Meola is hitting .271 overall and batted .319 in conference regular-season play. She has six doubles, two triples, one homer, 24 RBI, 22 runs scored and five steals in 41 games. Meola leads the Red Dragons with eight sacrifices.

Stoddard hit .432 in 16 league games and has an overall batting average of .323 in 41 contests. Her totals include six doubles, a triple and 25 RBI. Stoddard singled in the winning run in the top of the seventh inning in Cortland's 1-0 victory over Plattsburgh that clinched the SUNYAC tournament title.