KUZTOWN, Pa. – The 51-win Glenville State Softball program has won the Atlantic Super Regional and punched their ticket to the 2026 NCAA DII Women's College World Series! The Pioneers are now just one of eight teams remaining, and will make their way to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the program's first-ever appearance in the World Series. GSU hoisted the Regional championship trophy after winning a deciding game three, 7-3, as the Pioneers fell in the second game of the best-of-three series earlier in the afternoon.
GSU 3 | Kutztown 7
Emma McLean started the scoring in the 2
nd, ripping a double in the gap to score
Kylee Goodman. The Golden Bears took the lead the following inning on a single, but GSU quickly tied things up in the bottom half of the 3
rd on a not-so surprising
Delaney Warnick home run.
Alexis Harward gave the Pioneers the lead back in the 4
th with an RBI single down the right field line, however, the long ball came alive for Kutztown in the final two innings.
Jamie Madara tied it in the 6
th with a solo shot, then a pair of Golden Bears knocked two-run homers out of the park in the 7
th to make it a 7-3 game. Just like the last two weekends, the Pioneers season would come down to a winner-take-all final contest.
GSU 7 | Kutztown 3
For the 10
th straight time, the Pioneers were able win an elimination game with their backs against the wall. Though this was the first time GSU wasn't the team needing to win two games on the same day, the Cinderella story lived on. With a slight lineup shift,
Delaney Warnick and
Zailees Seda smoked back-to-back RBI doubles down the right field line to go up 2-0 early. That lead would be added onto in the 3
rd, when, can you guess it? Warnick homered for the third time in the Supers and for the 19
th time this season to make it 3-0.
In the fourth,
Emma McLean joined in on the fun with a line drive two-run home run to boost the advantage to five runs. Seda ripped her second double of the game and notched two more RBIs with a smoker in the gap, putting herself on second as the game-winning run in the 5
th. Kutztown avoided early elimination, and got back into the game with a solo shot in the 6
th and a pair of runs in the 7
th.
Kylie Burdick weathered the storm and was rewarded with a ticket to Tennessee by forcing the game-clinching flyout to
Alexis Harward.
Up Next For The Pioneers
The Pioneers now await their seeding and matchup for the 2026 NCAA DII Women's College World Series. GSU will play on Thursday (May 28) at Chattanooga's Frost Stadium in a double elimination formatted tournament. Glenville State Athletics will release more information once it becomes available.
