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	#22 - Krista Kearns
	Class: SO Height/Weight: 5-7     Hometown: Santa Fe Springs, Calif. Position: P/UT     High School: Santa Fe   Bats: R

2006: Made 30 appearances with 21 starts and posted a 13-8 record and 2.84 ERA in 135.2 innings pitched… Recorded 15 complete games and four shutouts… Held opponents to a team-best .235 batting average… Struck out 116 batters, fourth-most ever by a Retriever in a single season… Allowed 74 runs, 55 earned, 121 hits and 64 walks… Also picked up two saves on the season… Struck out 5.99 batters per game, sixth-best average in the conference… Ranked sixth in the America East in opponent batting average, seventh in wins and appearances, eighth in ERA and strikeouts, ninth in innings pitched and starts and tied for second in saves… Also hit .261 with 12 hits in 46 at-bats, making three starts in right field and 12 as the designated player… Scored six runs, drove in five, and hit one home run… Pitched a no-hitter in the UMBC Kickoff Classic championship game against Delaware State, striking out seven and walking just two in the complete game victory… Named to the Kickoff Classic All-Tournament Team… Tabbed Most Outstanding Pitcher of the UMBC Dawg Pound Tournament after winning three games and posting a 1.14 ERA with 13 strikeouts in 12.1 innings pitched… Also went 5-for-9 (.562) at the plate with a pinch-hit home run, two runs scored and two RBI…The homer was against St. Francis (Pa.)… Named America East Rookie of the Week on March 14, covering all games leading up to that point… Selected to UMBC Spring Classic All-Tournament Team after picking up two wins and posting a 0.57 ERA in 12.1 innings pitched, as she allowed just five hits, two walks and one run while striking out 18… Struck out a season-high nine batters in the second game of the Maine double-header… Also struck out eight batters on three different occasions… Won three straight decisions from March 10-12 and again March 28-April 1… Posted a complete-game three-hit shutout with eight strikeouts against Vermont in the UMBC Dawg Pound Tournament… Pitched a five-inning one-hitter against Sacred Heart in the UMBC Spring Classic, then shut out Brown with a complete game four-hitter… Posted two multi-hit games, including a 2-for-3 performance against Vermont and a 2-for-4 performance with two runs scored against St. Peter’s in the Delaware State Bash at the Beach… Drove in two runs against Sacred Heart.

Background: Received first-team all-league honors in 2004… Was selected as Athlete of the Week by the Whittier Daily in 2005… Once went 6-for-7 with two home runs in a double-header… Led her team to a second-place finish in the Del Rio League… Also lettered in wrestling at Santa Fe and placed fifth in the California Women’s State Wrestling Tournament… Sang in the women’s ensemble choir and the jazz choir… Named Miss Santa Fe Springs 2004… Daughter of Sarah and Dave Kearns… Has three brothers, David, Jonathan and James… Born Nov. 5, 1986… Majoring in sociology and hopes to go into law enforcement.