Week Four of the Division I season is in the books, and we’ve got you covered with some of the top players and teams that showed up and showed out this week! * For a recap from the Judi Garman Classic in Fullerton, California, click here to find it on our partner site, Extra Inning Softball. Meghan Beaubien, Michigan > What better place to lead off than with the pitcher who bested a pair of Top 5 teams in the same weekend? Beaubien earned complete-game victories over UCLA and Washington, with the win over the Bruins ending the team’s winning streak…
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Truman State head coach Erin Brown has announced her intention to step down from her post at the conclusion of the 2019 season. According to a university press release, Brown is leaving her position due to a family move to Troy, Missouri, where her husband has taken a position as a high school principal. Brown is in her thirteenth season as the Bulldogs’ head coach, and is the winningest coach in program history, with more than 300 career wins at the school. Brown owns a .528 career winning percentage in her decade-plus with the Bulldogs, and her 319 victories are…
Who is she? Haley Wiseman, a former pitcher for the Charlotte 49ers. What is she known for? Wiseman joined the 49ers pitching staff after beginning her career at Division II Barry and immediately became a valuable member of the team’s pitching staff. Wiseman posted a career-best opponent’s batting average of .198 in 2016, her sophomore season and her first at Charlotte. Twice an all-Conference USA honoree, the righty ended her career at Charlotte with a 3.03 ERA and 557 strikeouts in her three seasons as a member of the 49ers. Here’s something interesting… In the Charlotte program’s record books, Wiseman stands as just the fourth…
The South Carolina Gamecocks enjoyed a Cinderella season in 2018, earning a regional hosting berth and advancing to the Super Regional round of the NCAA tournament. The Gamecocks’ pitching staff gained much praise during the postseason run, a staff that included junior transfer Dixie Raley. Raley finished the year with a 14-5 record for the Gamecocks, as well as a 2.09 ERA and 106 strikeouts. She earned the victory in the first game of the Columbia regional final, throwing seven innings of shutout ball with eight strikeouts to force a winner-take-all final game from which her team would ultimately emerge…
Programming note: For a full recap from the 2019 Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic, click here to head over and check that out at our partner site, Extra Inning Softball. Still the nation’s premier early-season tournament, the Mary Nutter Classic brought more than its fair share of great softball to the table over the weekend. Even a bit of rain couldn’t stop the bats from connecting and the yellow balls from flying throughout the weekend in Cathedral City. But as the tournament went on in California, some great softball was happening in other parts of the country. Let’s take a virtual road trip…
Ouachita Baptist head coach Mike McGhee passed away over the weekend after a lengthy battle with cancer. A tweet from the Ouachita Athletics account officially announced McGhee’s passing, saying, “This morning Head Softball Coach Mike McGhee passed away after his fight with cancer. His love for Ouachita, his players and the lord was prominent in his time as Head Coach of the Tigers. Please remember his wife Debbie, daughter Beth, and son Ryan in these difficult times.” (sic) McGhee had been the head coach at Ouachita Baptist for fourteen years, since 2004, and was the owner of more than 300…
A rare occurrence was seen in Cathedral City on Thursday evening, as the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic was forced to prematurely end the opening day of games due to inclement weather. Several games were in progress, with more to go, when field conditions dictated an across-the-board stoppage at approximately 5:00 pm local time. Games were originally scheduled to go through the evening hours, with two games starting as late as 8:30 local time. With three full days of games still to go, a revised schedule was issued for Friday’s games at the tournament. All of the previously-scheduled matchups are still…
Pictured above: Mike, Kaitlin, Meghan and Karen King, Diane Hall Hello everyone! I hope y’all enjoyed my opening blog post! It has been an eventful two/three weeks here in Tallahassee! FSU softball held their very first ever Fan Day on February 2! It was so exciting to get out there and play in front of all of the old and new FSU softball fans! We even had FSU’s very own (my bestie/mentor) Jessica Burroughs come back and pitch to a few batters. Although I loved getting a chance to play with her again, I don’t think the hitters who faced…
After the tragic, sudden death of Geri Ann Glasco in January, the Sun Belt Conference on Thursday announced league-wide plans to honor the former Oregon and Georgia star. At the time of her death, Glasco was working as the volunteer assistant coach at Sun Belt member school Louisiana-Lafayette under head coach and her father, Gerry Glasco. In a post on the conference’s social media, the Sun Belt announced that league teams would wear a custom sticker on their batting helmets during the remainder of this season. To be designed for each team with their respective school colors, the sticker features…
In what was then-termed as a cost-cutting measure, the Eastern Michigan softball team played its final season in 2018. Now, a federal judge has ordered that a softball coach should be hired by April 1st and that the program is to be reinstated by the fall of 2019. Judge George Caram Steeh, on the bench of the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan, issued the order on Tuesday as part of an ongoing legal battle that began when EMU announced plans to eliminate four sports at the end of the 2017-18 school year; those sports included softball;…