St. Mary's Ryken senior fireballer Madison Aughinbaugh, a two-time All-Met and the reigning WCAC player of the year, explains her role on last year's team like part of a network procedural. She was putting on a bit of an act.

If third baseman Lindsay Heinze was the good cop, offering suspects a soda and a sandwich, Aughinbaugh was slamming the interrogation room table and demanding answers.

"I was bad cop," Aughinbaugh said, admitting she's naturally more laid back but not as care free as Heinze. For her final season, Aughinbaugh said she gets to be "positive Polly" while senior co-captain Lindsey Keller becomes the team's disciplinarian.

How the Knights fill the shoes of Heinze and center fielder Savannah Miller is the biggest question facing the back-to-back conference champions as they chase a three-peat.

With 106 strikeouts in the team's first nine games, Aughinbaugh is still plenty nasty in the circle. But second-ranked St. Mary's Ryken is 9-0 with a 5-3 win over rival O'Connell and four wins at a tournament in Myrtle Beach because the rest of the characters have played their parts.

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