In a mid-game interview during the ESPN broadcast of her team’s game against BYU, Deifel said, “We’ve been holding our cards pretty close, but Mary tore her ACL this week.”
The Hogs started Autumn Storms in back-to-back games, in what would be their only two games of the NCAA tournament, which prompted a question from color commentator Cheri Kempf in the interview about the reasoning therefore. At that time, Deifel revealed the injury.
In two starts in the tournament, Storms threw 13.0 innings, giving up thirteen hits and eleven runs, but just four of them were earned. She collected eight strikeouts and gave up just one walk.
Haff finished the season with a 1.88 ERA and eighteen wins on the year, with a team-leading 180 strikeouts in 160.1 innings of work. As a freshman during the 2018 season, Haff posted a 29-7 record in a breakout campaign, with a 1.51 ERA, 249 strikeouts, and a .157 opponent’s batting average.
