Given the sometimes vast disparity in talent at the high school level, softball pitchers throwing consecutive no-hitters is not unheard of. Occasionally, they might even add a third, but that sort of thing doesn’t happen at the collegiate level. Well, at least not very often. It did happen in Westmoreland County over the last few weeks. Mollie Stock, a junior pitcher on the St. Vincent College softball team, scored the improbable hat trick, stifling Penn State-Fayette, 11-0, Penn State-Allegheny, 10-0 and Thiel College, 3-0, from March 15-29. “I honestly didn’t realize I had pitched a no-hitter in any of those,” Stock, who attended Waynesville High School in Ohio, located between Dayton and Cincinnati. “I get so mentally into the game that I wasn’t aware until someone said something to me afterward. I really didn’t think it was that big of a deal.” Stock struck out 13 of the 15 batters she faced against Penn State-Fayette, whiffed 10 more against Penn State-Allegheny and rang up eight more K’s against Thiel. “Obviously, I’m very happy for her and very proud of her,” SVC coach Nicole Hinerman said. “She’s very smart about her location on pitches, and knows she has to have the right pitch at the right time. She has a lot of pitches she can throw (six by Stock’s count), and that’s one thing. But to be able to throw them consistently, that’s very much another.” A year ago, Stock led the Bearcats with a .337 batting average, with one home run, 10 doubles and a team-leading 15 RBI. She was 4-3 on the mound with a 2.41 ERA, totaling 23 strikeouts in 37 innings. “She’s a very good hitter,” Hinerman said. “I know she’s not happy with how she’s doing so far this year, but she’s starting to come around.” If Stock does get her hitting back to what she considers acceptable and continues her high level of pitching, she’ll probably trace some of that success to what she did in the offseason. “Since the beginning of the season, I thought it was going to be different this year,” she said. “I worked with our trainer here, and I feel stronger, have more energy and can go longer in games.” After the first couple no-hitters, pressure started to build a bit, and that intensified with the third one. “That fourth game, I was almost relieved when they got a hit in the first inning,” said Stock, who spent the earliest years of her life near Lebanon, Pa., before her family moved to Ohio. “Now that I look at those no-hitters, I’m pretty proud and actually realize what an accomplishment that was,” she said. “The great thing, though, is our team is winning and we want to keep that going.” The team is 14-6 going into a home doubleheader this today (3 p.m.) against Bethany.

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