Softball Still Struggling

UNTLifer · March 20

Loses 4-2 to UTA in extra innings.

Tommy Gadberry · March 20

25 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Loses 4-2 to UTA in extra innings.

Rodney has been disappointing

Matt from A700 · March 23

Kayleigh Smith kept us in it while our batters were getting no hit. We actually took a 1-0 lead before getting a hit, but the next inning Kayleigh let the first two batters get on base and the next hitter was already 2-2 so I can see why he took her out. Unfortunately Anderson was not able to keep them from scoring.

Moffitt smoked a game-tying homer in the bottom of the 7th but Skylar couldn't keep UTA from responding in the top of the 8th. We loaded the bases with I think 1 out in the bottom half but couldn't convert.

This snaps a three-game winning streak to UTA.

Side.Show.Joe · Friday at 02:28 PM

Softball has regressed over the last few seasons. I know we moved up to the American, but aside from Wichita State the addition of those programs isn't much different than playing in C-USA.

Savage's best season was her freshman year. Since then she has regressed. Why haven't the coaches developed her by now? And why don't we have better arms in the pitching rotation? Our batting is okay compared to the past few seasons, but it isn't outstanding. Personally, I saw a lot of potential in Epperson, and hated to watch her hitting on us when we played Wichita State. DeLong should have keep that girl. Maybe DeLong has taken this program as far as he can. I don't see us challenging for the AAC title this year. DeLong just didn't address enough of the issues in the off-season.

Edited Friday at 02:29 PM by Side.Show.Joe

Matt from A700 · 2025-03-30T03:00:11Z

On 3/28/2025 at 9:28 AM, Side.Show.Joe said:

Softball has regressed over the last few seasons. I know we moved up to the American, but aside from Wichita State the addition of those programs isn't much different than playing in C-USA.

Savage's best season was her freshman year. Since then she has regressed. Why haven't the coaches developed her by now? And why don't we have better arms in the pitching rotation? Our batting is okay compared to the past few seasons, but it isn't outstanding. Personally, I saw a lot of potential in Epperson, and hated to watch her hitting on us when we played Wichita State. DeLong should have keep that girl. Maybe DeLong has taken this program as far as he can. I don't see us challenging for the AAC title this year. DeLong just didn't address enough of the issues in the off-season.

Last year our pitching kept us in games, this year our offense is. The pitching performance overall is a regression this year, but I think the team is actually overperforming given the circumstances. We lost the best senior class in program history, the class who helped get us to our only NCAA Tournament appearance. And Bearclaw to me was our only notable offensive transfer. I didn't think Riley McNemar would contribute the way she has.

If we can find a true ace next year, we will stand a better chance in the conference tournament. But this year we are competing with and beating more of the power conference teams. But we getting more hits, scoring more runs, and even knocking more balls out of the park this year already. We lose Cierra, Nicholson, and Bearpaw, but will still have R. McNemar, Tatum, Moffitt, and Conley. And so far freshman Ausha Moore is having a great year, .290 average with 3 homers.

SUMG · 2025-03-30T16:55:46Z

13 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

Last year our pitching kept us in games, this year our offense is. The pitching performance overall is a regression this year, but I think the team is actually overperforming given the circumstances. We lost the best senior class in program history, the class who helped get us to our only NCAA Tournament appearance. And Bearclaw to me was our only notable offensive transfer. I didn't think Riley McNemar would contribute the way she has.

If we can find a true ace next year, we will stand a better chance in the conference tournament. But this year we are competing with and beating more of the power conference teams. But we getting more hits, scoring more runs, and even knocking more balls out of the park this year already. We lose Cierra, Nicholson, and Bearpaw, but will still have R. McNemar, Tatum, Moffitt, and Conley. And so far freshman Ausha Moore is having a great year, .290 average with 3 homers.

If you told me before the season, that Skyler would be as average as she's been, and that Childers would quit? the team, I wouldn't have thought that we would have as good a record as we have.

What I'm hoping for.....is that Skyler suddenly gets it together. If we had her as a true ace, and could supplement that with Anderson and Smith.....we'd have a shot of winning the league. (in the tournament)

UNTLifer · 2025-03-31T01:07:31Z

Our pitching has really been frustrating. I second what @SUMG stated about Savage, and am not sure what happened to Childers. She is still in the roster and her social media doesn’t appear to announce any decision to quit or transfer, it she hasn’t been seen in months. Would be nice if @Brett Vito could find something out in this situation.