TOWSON, Md. -- The Elizabethtown College softball coaching staff was named Staff of the Year while four Blue Jays earned all-conference honors for the team. The Landmark announced its all-conference teams on Thursday. Morgan Carr, Brooke Huczko, Jess Dunn and Lily Baldwin are the honorees for Etown, along with head coach Bekah Slattery and assistant coaches Glen Pysher and Mark Kneasel.

COACHING STAFF OF THE YEAR
Elizabethtown was voted the conference staff of the year for the first time since 2007 when the school was still a member of the Middle Atlantic Conference.

The Blue Jays experience a resurgence in Coach Slattery's fifth season in charge, going from 10 wins last season to 22 this year, which is the largest win-increase since Etown went +19 between 2001 and 2002. For the program, it was their most wins since 2012 (24), first 20-win season (22-18) since 2013 and the first winning season since 2018 (18-13).

The 2026 version of the Blue Jays collectively hit .320, which ranked second out of the nine Landmark teams overall, their best team average since 2018 when they hit .317. The Etown pitching staff ended with a 3.07 team ERA, also the program's best since 2018. On the defensive side, the Jays commited the second-fewest errors in the conference while their .965 fielding percentage ranked them third overall. In conference games, Elizabethtown's fielding percentage was a tad higher at .970, ranking second.

Finishing a game out of the playoff hunt after being voted last in the preseason poll, the Blue Jays went 7-9, their most conference wins since joining the Landmark and most since the team won eight games in their final season in the MAC Commonwealth in 2013.

Three of the four all-conference selections for Coach Slattery are underclassmen (2 first-year, 1 sophomore) while three of the top five players for the season in most categories were underclassmen. In the circle, the Jays had a pair of first-year hurlers that finished tops on the team. Lauren Leshak had a team-high five wins while Julia Bergen was tied for second with four wins along with senior Gianna Anzideo and junior Sydney Harper. Anzideo led the team with a 1.73 ERA in 13 appearances while Leshak had a 2.63 ERA and Bergen a 2.98 ERA. All three pitchers recorded a save during the season, which ties for 10th most in a single season.

FIRST TEAM
Morgan Carr played in 39 games with 36 starts in her first season, spending time at a few positions in the infield but settling in as the team's primary designated player. She hit .340 on the season with 35 hits, both fifth-best for the Blue Jays. Carr drew a team-high 12 walks and had 10 multi-hit games including three games with two doubles. Her eight doubles in 2026 tied for third-most on the team.

Carr went 3-for-3 on March 5 in a win over Chatham in Florida with a run and an RBI. At Scranton on March 28 in a game-one win, the freshman went 2-for-3 with two runs, two RBIs, and two doubles. She was voted First Team Designated Player.

Brooke Huczko earned her second All-Landmark Conference selection of her career and first time on the First Team. She was a 2024 Second Team Outfielder. The senior appeared and started all 40 games as a mainstay in center field for the Blue Jays, helping Etown to its top-3 ranking in fielding for the season. Huczko had a career-high 48 hits, eight doubles, and 26 RBIs. Her first three seasons total, she had driven in 24 total. Her 48 hits were fourth-most in the Landmark and while RBI total ranked seventh.

The Macungie, Pa. native had 15 multi-hit games for the Blue Jays and had a nine-game hit streak between March 6 and March 29. Huczko had a season-high three hits in three different games, including a 3-for-4 effort with a pair of RBIs in the season opener against Bethany Lutheran in Florida. She had a career-high four RBIs on March 6 against Clark in the team's final day of their spring break trip.

SECOND TEAM
Jess Dunn led the Jays with her .398 average, nearly 25 points higher than 2025, and ranked sixth in the Landmark at the plate. She recorded 41 hits, one of 16 players in the conference with 40 or more. Dunn also led Etown with her 13 doubles, tied for the fifth-most in a single season in program history. She also belted two home runs and knocked in 23 runs.

At the dish, Dunn had 10 multi-hit games and a six-game hit streak in the opening week in Florida. She recorded three hits in three different games for EC and also had three RBIs in three separate games. Dunn hit her second homer of the season, a three-run shot, over left field at The Nest on May 2 in the game-one win over Lycoming. She was named Second Team Third Base for the Blue Jays.

Rounding out the all-conference selections is Lily Baldwin, who made an immediate impact for the Jays. Baldwin ranked top three on the team in average (.385), hits (45), doubles (12), triples (4), home runs (2) and RBIs (36) while also ranking top 10 in those same categories. Her triple and RBI totals led Elizabethtown while she was tied for third in the conference in triples, third in RBIs, fourth in doubles, sixth in hits and 10th in average. She now ranks fourth in single-season RBIs and tied for ninth in single-season doubles.

The primary shortstop who also went 2-3 in the circle for the Blue Jays, Baldwin had 14 multi-hit games and showcased her talents during the team's Florida trip. She smacked her first career homer against Chatham on March 5 and had five RBIs in the game. She went 4-for-4 with a double, RBI and three stolen bases at Hood on March 30 to help the Jays sweep the Blazers. Baldwin was named Second Team Shortstop.

Elizabethtown's four all-conference players are the most for the program since having five honorees in 2015.