If you do all the little things right, the big things take care of themselves. Moravian College coach John Byrne preaches that to his team all the time: they pitch, they field, they move runners over. It's part of the reason Moravian is ranked #17 in Division III and why the Greyhounds are moving on to the Super Regional Round of the NCAA Division III Softball Championships.
 
Moravian squeezed out a 4-2 victory over Rochester in game five of the tournament on Saturday afternoon. It came two hours after Rochester rallied in dramatic fashion to seize a 6-3 victory that forced game five in the double-elimination tournament. Rochester finished the season at 29-13. Moravian improved to 37-6 with the win. The Greyhounds will hook up with the winner of a regional being conducted at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
 

Freshman pitcher Josie Novak was named the Most Outstanding Player. She pitched a complete game, allowing nine hits, two runs (one earned) with four walks and four strikeouts. Novak took the circle right after allowing a game-winning grand slam by Rochester's Brittany Grage that ended game four.
 
Novak knew game five would be a challenge. "It was hard, knowing I gave up a home run earlier," she said. "I was more focused on this game."
 
She stranded 11 baserunners,  six of them in scoring position. Moravian scored one in the first – Lizzie Mack singled home Jenn Dalickas – and two more in the fourth, one of those unearned.
 
Mack singled and moved to second when the ball was misplayed in the outfield. Victoria Conner grounded out to first, moving Mack to third. Lizzie Deutsch singled to center and the ball was misplayed there. Deutsch reached second and Mack scored. Grage switched positions with Eleni Wechsler with Grage moving to third and Wechsler taking the mound. Janae Matos hit a full-count single down the left field line that hopped over Grage's head. Deutsch scored for a 3-0 lead. Wechsler earned a strikeout and a groundout to end the inning.
 
Rochester tried to answer back in the top of the fifth. With one down, Kayla Kibling singled to left. Sarah Wayson grounded to third, moving Kibling to second. Grage singled to left and Kibling took third. Wechsler drew her third straight walk. This one loaded the bases. Gabriela Alatorre flied out to left.
 
"We couldn't get the key hit," said Rochester coach Margaret Yerdon-Grange. "Their outfielders took hits away."
 
Kibling led off the game with a line drive that was speared by a diving Dior George. She had four putouts and Julie Siragusa had two in left field. Mary Schlosbon, who had six putouts in game four earlier, had only three balls hit in her direction – singles by Grage (in the first), Shelby Corning (in the second), and Kibling (in the sixth).
 
"I was hoping Josie could shut them down," said Byrne. "Lizzie Mack came up big for us – getting key hits when we needed them."
 
Mack was 3-3 and she drove in the fourth run for Moravian. Schlosbon singled. When George failed to bunt her over, Schlosbon stole second. Siragusa grounded out to Byrne-Cody at second, moving Schlosbon to third. She scored on Mack's double to left.
 
The fourth run was a tournament-high for Moravian. The Greyhounds defeated Penn St.-Berks, 3-2, in game one Friday and Rochester, 3-2, on George's walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth on Friday in game three. They scored three runs in game four earlier on Saturday.
 
"We won't score 10 runs day-in and day-out," Byrne said. "This team is not built that way. I tell the players 'You have to make ordinary plays extraordinarily well'. We do that and we get sound pitching, we'll scratch it out."
 
Mack, a senior captain, agreed. "All three cylinders are coming together," she said. "Hitting, pitching, fielding. (In between games) we talked as a

team about the need to pick it up."
 
Rochester produced an unearned run in the sixth. Jocelyn Blackshear singled up the middle. One out later, she moved to second on a sac bunt by Rachael Roddenbery. Corning's hard grounder down the first base line deflected off Dalickas and bounced into foul territory. Blackshear raced home. Kibling singled to right, putting two runners aboard. Sarah Wayson grounded out to second.
 
"We made a couple of errors and we didn't get the hits we needed at times," Kibling said.
 
In the Rochester seventh, Grage popped up. Wechsler singled through the left side and Stephanie Brunet ran for her. Alatorre doubled to the base of the centerfield fence and Brunet came around to score. Novak bore down, striking out Blackshear and Liberto to end it.
 
Byrne said it Friday and it was still true on Saturday. "Our pitching keeps us in a lot of games."
 
REGIONAL ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM: Casey Hafer (Penn St.-Berks), Megan Olsen (Penn St.-Berks), Gabriela Alatorre (Rochester), Kayla Kibling (Rochester), Eleni Wechsler (Rochester), Brittany Grage (Rochester), Lizzie Mack (Moravian), Amanda Carisone (Moravian), Dior George (Moravian). Most Outstanding Player: Josie Novak (Moravian).