Former San Diego State catcher Jenavee Peres is joining UCLA for the 2020 season. Peres joins the Bruins as a graduate transfer with one season of eligibility remaining. She last played for San Diego State during the 2017 season. In her three years at SDSU, Peres set a number of program records, including the Aztecs’ career batting average mark with her .409 clip. She also set the on-base percentage (.466) and slugging percentage (.743) records, ranking in the top ten in program history in an additional four categories. As a junior in 2017, Peres batted .454, a mark that ranked…
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A look back at 2019 The 2019 season saw the Ragin’ Cajuns post a 52-6 overall record, including a perfect conference record at 25-0. The Cajuns lost just one game at home on the year, an 11-inning non-conference affair against McNeese. Starting the season on a 14-0 run, the Cajuns made quick work of most of their early-season, non-conference opponents, including PAC-12 foes California and Oregon State. In a late February tournament in Waco, Texas, the Cajuns recorded victories over Baylor and would-be Conference USA co-champion North Texas, before falling in rematches against both teams later the same weekend. A…
I. 2019 Recap Sam Houston State won the Southland’s regular-season crown in 2019, later moving through the conference tournament to secure the championship and, with it, the league’s automatic berth into the NCAA tournament. The Bearkats were the only conference team to reach the NCAA tournament, though Stephen F. Austin and McNeese were selected for the NISC postseason tournament. A total of twelve conference schools sponsor softball, including Abilene Christian; Central Arkansas; Houston Baptist; Incarnate Word; Lamar; McNeese; Nicholls; Northwestern State; Sam Houston State; Southeastern Louisiana; Stephen F. Austin; and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. One conference member school does not field…
The 2010s have officially ended, and the book is closed on what was one of the finest decades in history for Division I softball. Records were broken, set, and reset. Championships were won. Success was found. Bonafide stars were made. And, fitting the latter point, you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger star in the sport of softball than Rachel Garcia, our Division I Player of the Decade for the 2010s. Garcia ended the decade on the highest note possible, winning her 2nd-consecutive National Player of the Year award while also leading her team to the Women’s College World Series…
UNLV assistant coach Andy Jarvis has been promoted to the title of associate head coach, the school announced on Friday. Jarvis has spent the past two seasons on the Rebels’ coaching staff, serving under head coach Kristie Fox, who is also his wife. Since the pair arrived in Las Vegas, the Rebels have seen enormous success, including an NISC tournament berth in 2018 and being named as one of the ‘first four out’ of last year’s NCAA tournament. The Rebels have posted a 69-34 record over the past two seasons. Prior to joining the staff at UNLV, Jarvis served on…
A look back at 2019 The Wolverines finished the 2019 season with a 45-13 overall record, along with a 22-1 conference showing. The team went 17-2 at home, and won 75% of their true road games. Ranked #19 in the nation to start the 2019 season, the Wolverines lost to a pair of top-10 teams, Arizona and Florida, on opening weekend. The Wolverines continued their subpar start throughout non-conference play, going 1-3 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and losing three out of five games on the road in Baton Rouge at the home of LSU. The Wolverines righted the ship…
Waxahachie, Texas boasted a population nearing 30,000 in the 2010 census, and now is estimated to house nearly 40,000 people. The city was the major filming location for the 1983 Robert Duvall movie Tender Mercies; is the namesake of a former US Navy ship; and also happens to be the home of one of college softball’s premier sluggers. Brooke Goad – our Division 2 Player of the Decade for the 2010s – was one of the game’s best hitters at any level during her playing career at Southern Arkansas. She owns the Division II all-time record for home runs with…
I. 2019 Recap Miami won the MAC’s regular-season crown in 2019, though 7th-seeded Toledo came from their position in the middle of the league to pull off an upset victory in the conference tournament. The Rockets were the only conference team to participate in the NCAA tournament. A total of eleven conference schools sponsor softball, including Akron; Ball State; Bowling Green; Buffalo; Central Michigan; Kent State; Miami; Northern Illinois; Ohio; Toledo; and Western Michigan. One conference member school does not field a softball program. II. 2020 Predictions Player of the Year: Brenna Brownfield, Kent State As tough as…
Allyson Fournier enjoyed one of the most remarkable collegiate softball careers in recent memory. A 2015 graduate of Tufts University, Fournier led her team to three Division III National Championships, a run that included a perfect 51-0 campaign her senior year. During that perfect season, Fournier posted a 35-0 record; notched five no-hitters; and set the Division III record for consecutive scoreless innings, surpassing the previous record by thirty innings. To call Fournier’s 2015 season the best in Division III history would not be an overestimation; to call her career one that should have gained far more attention than it…
A look back at 2019 During the 2019 season – Pete D’Amour’s first as head coach – the Hokies posted a 47-11 overall record, with a 20-4 conference mark. The team won 75% of their home games (15-5) and 83% of road games (19-4). The Hokies started the season 9-0, cruising undefeated through the first two weeks of the year. A two-game split against Georgia during a weekend tournament in Athens highlighted the remainder of non-conference play, while the squad also recorded a doubleheader split against James Madison later in the season. Once the calendar turned to ACC matchups, the…