College Ball

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Has anyone been keeping up with Sarah Phillips who I think is from Olentangy Liberty? She is leading her team with an ERA just over 1.00, been conference pitcher of the week two weeks in a row, and her team has moved up in the DII rankings from 11th to 5th in the nation.

Hitter, I believe there was a walk on to Butler last year who found significant batting time, but I didn't see her name on the roster this year.

Melissa Bonner at Ohio University is another player to watch. She led her team offensively as a freshman last year, and she is at the top again this year so far.

 

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pecosbill, they are 2 good players, I enjoy coacing them. We took it on the chin tonight against Ashland. they hit as well as any team I have seen.

 

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That was (and is) a fun bunch of girls that played summer ball together. We parents have great memories of watching them play and hanging together. Several are no longer playing softball, but I am sure are doing quite well (Lea-Charleston, Kelly-Hiram, Kelly-Butler, Jess-Urbana). Several are still playing softball in college: Brittany and Tami at Urbana, Cam at Wittenberg, Jen at Capital, Mira at Lincoln Memorial. Maybe they can get together for a couple more summer tournaments.
I see that Jen is tearing it up early at Capital. Mira is also doing very well at the plate at LMU. I wish Wittenberg would provide stats. I am sure Cam is doing well.
Danger1,
We've enjoyed being around Tami and Brittany as well. We hope to see them again this summer out on the coaching circuit somewhere.

 

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I just got home from Adrian where my DD plays. What a beautiful afternoon for softball. They swept a double header tonight to move to 11-1 on the season. Mine started game 1 and not her best day. Gave up 3 earned off a HR and a couple unearned. Not so easy to get away with mistakes as it used to be for her. She went 4 plus and left trailing 5-3. Offense came around and pulled out a 6-5 win and her fellow freshman picked up her first win with 3 innings of scoreless relief. All in all, DD is doing well so far, 4-0 along with 2 ND's, an ERA under 2 even with the off outing today. She's an Ohio kid from the Ice last year and a HS nobody ever heard of.

They won game two 8-0. The other main starting pitcher was rolling again tonight and is now 6-0 on the seaon with 4 shutouts. She was D3 national player of the week last week after a great week in FL. Meeeeechigan kid, but I won't hold that against her.

The team is doing very well early in the season and even moved up to the coveted "others receiving votes" in last weeks poll. They'll be surprising a lot of people this season and it's exciting to see they are doing it with mostly sophmores and freshman with just a few key older players.

Kinda funny to go to a game and see all the UM stuff. I'll make it a point to wear some Buckeye stuff for the game Friday, just to show the colors. Fun stuff for Dad.