Senior Danielle Gravel (Sidney, NY/Sidney) used her potent pitching arm and her bat to propel the Keuka College softball team past SUNY Cobleskill 8-1 Saturday morning as the Storm (16-8) remain one of three teams alive for the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) postseason tournament.

Gravel won her 10th straight after holding Cobleskill (18-7) to one run on seven hits in the complete-game win to improve to 10-3 on the year.

Gravel struck out four and issued only one walk in shutting down the Cobleskill bats, while the first-team All-NEAC pitcher added a three-run single to lift the Storm into Sunday's championship round of the NEAC tournament.

Keuka College will play Penn State-Berks (27-6) at 10 a.m. Saturday morning. Berks defeated Wilson (Pa.) College 3-0, and the Storm and the Nittany Lions are the only two schools in the six-team field that have not lost a postseason game. SUNYIT (18-15) is 2-1 in the NEAC tournament and is the third school still alive for the NEAC title.

Senior Deliane Lessard (Rochester, NY/Greece Olympia) and sophomore Mackenzie Cole (Ogdensburg, NY/Ogdensburg Free Academy) each drove in two runs while sophomore Jessica Parmiter (Cortland, NY/Homer) belted a solo home run for the Storm.

Senior Katie Evangelista (Geneva, NY/Geneva) was 2-for-4 with three runs scored while freshmen Samantha Blum (Niskayuna, NY/Colonie) and Tally McDonald (Romulus, NY/Romulus) were each 2-for-4 in the win.

Madeline DeMelio led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run, but that was all the damage the Fighting Tigers would do off of Gravel.

In the top of the second, Cole drew a bases-loaded walk to even the score, then Lessard gave the Storm a 3-1 lead with her two-run single.

Cole added an RBI single in the fourth and Gravel cleared the bases in the sixth to put the Green and Gold up 7-1.

Parmiter closed out the scoring with a solo home run in the top of the seventh to send the Storm into Sunday's championship round.

The winner earns the conference's automatic qualifier into the NCAA Division III tournament.

Keuka College has won six of the last seven NEAC postseason championships.