DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – Junior righthander Alycia Feeney (Brewster, N.Y./Brewster) won her third game of the day to earn Tournament Most Valuable Player honors as the top-seeded Manhattanville College softball team captured its third MAC Freedom title in the last four years with a 10-5 victory over third-seeded King's (Pa.) College in the seventh and final game of the 2017 MAC Freedom Softball Championships, hosted by Delaware Valley University on Sunday.
 
Feeney picked up the win in all four Manhattanville (30-13) victories this weekend, including pitching all 19 innings and winning all three games on Sunday to earn Tournament MVP honors for the second straight year. In the clincher, she did not allow an earned run on six hits and struck out six, and for the day went 3-0 with a 0.74 ERA, two earned runs and 12 strikeouts.
 
Sophomore Desiree Buboi (Villa Park, Calif./Orange Lutheran) had another huge game to lead the Valiants at the plate, going 4-for-4 with a homer and six runs batted in, tying the school postseason RBI record that she set in the NCAA Tournament against Neumann University last year. Classmate Aarin Hartenstein (Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) also homered and sophomore Alexa Grniet (Morristown, N.J./Morristown) drove in one and scored twice in the victory.
 
Playing as the home team, Feeney set the tone by retiring King's (19-19) on three pitches in the top half of the first. The Valiants wasted no time getting on the board in the bottom half, as sophomore Sophia Chapelone (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) led off with a rip to center field and came around on a RBI double from Buboi.
 
After Feeney stranded a runner on third in the top of the second, Manhattanville opened the offensive floodgates with six runs in the bottom half. Hartenstein led off with a shot off the scoreboard beyond the right-field fence, and Grniet added another with a bases-loaded single to center. The big shot came next courtesy of Buboi, who launched a grand slam to center to put the Valiants up by seven.
 
King's got three unearned runs back in the top of the fourth on a three-run homer from Alizabeth Ellsworth, but Manhattanville got those three back in the bottom half on a Buboi RBI single and a King's error. The Lady Monarchs responded with two runs in the top of the fifth, making it a 10-5 game, but that was all they got the rest of the way.

For the second straight year the final outs came on a double play, as Grniet made a diving catch in right field and then threw to Chapelone to double up the runner and set off the celebration.
 
For Manhattanville, Sunday marks the first time in program history that the team won three games in a single day, having previously won twice at the MAC Freedom Tournament in 2011 and 2012 before losing the third. The team's 10 runs scored are its most in a MAC Freedom postseason game and the most in any conference tournament since putting up 11 in a Skyline Conference Tournament win over Centenary (N.J.) College on April 28, 2006.
 
Manhattanville will find out its destination for next week's NCAA Div. III Championships on Monday, when the NCAA selection show is streamed live on NCAA.com beginning at 1 p.m.