JOLIET, Ill. --- Two-time all-Southwest Suburban Conference - Blue Division selection and Lincoln-Way East High School product Kaley Jendraszak (Frankfort, IL) has announced that she will attend University of St. Francis this coming fall and play softball for the Fighting Saints and head coach Dick Smith.

JOLIET, Ill. --- Tori Johnson, who once tied a state high school record with nine runs batted in in one game, has announced that she will attend University of St. Francis and play softball for the Fighting Saints.

JOLIET, Ill. --- A softball program can never have enough pitching and that is why University of St. Francis head softball coach Dick Smith has added a third pitching prospect to his 2011-12 recruiting class with the signing of Lemont High School's Rebecka Anderson (Lemont, IL), it was announced on Sunday.

CHICAGO - Four members of the University of St. Francis softball team were recently named to the All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference honor squads during the league's postseason championship tournament at Saint Xavier University.

CHICAGO - Senior pitcher Kim Malacina (Lockport H.S./Homer Glen, IL) tossed a five-hit shutout to defeat Robert Morris University, 4-0, early Friday afternoon and then pitched nearly a full 13 innings before she and the Fighting Saints dropped a 2-1 heartbreaker to Saint Xavier University in an elimination game at the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Softball Championship Tournament.

CHICAGO - Freshman center fielder Lexi Southall (Wilmington H.S./Wilmington, IL) capped off a four-run rally with a two-RBI single in the bottom of the sixth inning to lift University of St. Francis to a 4-3 victory over Judson University Thursday evening to keep the Saints alive in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Softball Championship Tournament at Saint Xavier University.

CHICAGO - Saint Xavier University, Olivet Nazarene University and Judson University all shared the 2011 Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference regular-season title, but only one league team will be able to claim the six-team, double elimination conference tournament, which opens play Thursday and continues through Saturday at Saint Xavier University in Chicago.

WHITING, Ind. - Senior pitcher Kim Malacina (Lockport H.S./Homer Glen, IL) fired a four-hitter to lead University of St. Francis to a 2-1 victory in the opener as the Saints' softball team split their regular-season-ending Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader at Calumet College of St. Joseph on Sunday. The Saints won game one by a 2-1 score and dropped the nightcap, 5-2.

GREENFIELD, Wis. - University of St. Francis assured itself of no worse than a .500 season and moved one step closer to clinching a berth in next week's Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament with a doubleheader sweep of league foe Cardinal Stritch University - 13-0 and 14-6 in five innings - Thursday afternoon at Alan Kulwicki Park.