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Post by sballalumni2 on Feb 10, 2017 8:54:44 GMT -6
The season is finally underway! We are already down 3 to 1 to Bethune Cookman bright and early this morning, but hopefully we can make a comeback. All I can follow is the stats, but in the 2nd inning we had runners on 1st and 3rd with our best hitter up (3 hole, returning senior) and the girl on third was thrown out trying to steal home for the third out. Hartley (3 hole, returning senior) leads off the 3rd inning with a homerun! It would have been a 3 run homerun! Know the situation! Early lesson for the base runners.
Anyway, I am excited that it has started and I hope we can find our way to an NCAA appearance this year.
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Post by Pensacola Trojan on Feb 10, 2017 9:59:54 GMT -6
Nice recovery by the Trojans. Looks like a 6 run 6th did the trick.
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Post by sballalumni2 on Feb 10, 2017 15:25:00 GMT -6
Troy went 1-1 on opening day. Came back from behind to beat Bethune-Cookman, but could not pull out a win against 2016 #145 RPI North Florida. Troy finished last season with a #72 RPI and we just can't afford to have losses against Atlantic Sun teams ranked #145. Unless we can beat ULL in the conference tournament, then we will need an at-large bid and these kind of losses work against you. Purely from stats, it looks like an inning of a bunch of walks given up did us in. I would love to hear feedback from anyone that actually attended the games.
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Post by pctrojan16 on Feb 11, 2017 12:19:14 GMT -6
Well we dropped the first one today and are behind in the second. Michigan state and NC State.. smh
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Post by Mr E 205 Legion on Feb 11, 2017 12:48:36 GMT -6
Trojans take down NC State 5-3! Move to 2-2 on the season.
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Post by sballalumni2 on Feb 11, 2017 16:20:48 GMT -6
Our pitchers are giving up lots of hits and walks. I am hoping they are just young and will grow as they get innings. Otherwise, this is going to be a long season. It is very early, but I did mention in the off season how bad we needed a transfer pitcher.
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Post by pctrojan16 on Feb 12, 2017 18:58:16 GMT -6
3-2 after one tournament, one so-so loss and one bad loss..
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Post by saintflorian on Feb 20, 2017 11:11:33 GMT -6
In memory of Troystet: "we stink, need pitching, recruit in California ! "
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Post by Pensacola Trojan on Feb 20, 2017 19:05:07 GMT -6
I am sure the seven game winning streak is just a fluke😜
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Post by pctrojan16 on Feb 27, 2017 11:11:12 GMT -6
So are Lipscomb and Southeastern Louisiana that good and a ranked Pitt team bad or WTH happened this weekend? flamingmad
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Post by sballalumni2 on Feb 27, 2017 12:33:17 GMT -6
I watched the games online, and even though there are no announcers (which is insane because we have a school of journalism, think internship?), my best guess is that our pitch by committee worked on them. The best I can tell, no one as emerged as the ace, so they are constantly rotating the pitchers just trying to piece together 7 innings. We have one very good player, Hartley, who is on fire and she basically won that game with her homerun. The batting is much improved, but 29 errors in 15 games + 3.53 team ERA is not going to win any championships. I have faith that the pitchers are still young and will get better. We are 2-0 against the ACC, 2-3 against the ASUN, 2-0 against the MEAC, 2-0 against the Big South, 1-0 against the Big 10, and 0-2 against the Southland. Of our 9 wins, I believe only one of those teams made the NCAA tournament last season - Longwood. They won the Big South last year, so received the automatic birth.
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Post by pctrojan16 on Feb 27, 2017 14:05:58 GMT -6
I hope, we need more than one ace pitcher , we need to eventually find or recruit 2 solid aces
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Post by sballalumni2 on Feb 27, 2017 20:56:12 GMT -6
At this point, I would be happy with one ace. Rainey pitched almost all the innings last year and Affeldt the year before. I think Graves is getting the big game starts as of now, but she is not pitching the whole game. I still can't figure out why we didn't have a pitcher come in with this freshmen class. Rigney is coming off of fall surgery, plus she has been hurt most of her career. The Alabama fans are on other softball websites complaining about their sophomore pitcher Maddie Moore and how she should have went to Troy or UAB. I was like we will take her, send her on down. We have had Alabama pitchers transfer before to Troy. I am pretty sure Meg Willis came in as pitcher, so maybe they should try to get her back to form.
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Post by pctrojan16 on Feb 28, 2017 20:03:05 GMT -6
We SPLIT a DH against a 1-14-1 team, what the heck is going on with us?
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Post by sballalumni2 on Mar 2, 2017 10:32:57 GMT -6
No #2 or #3 pitcher! Graves has emerged as the #1, so either we are going to have to ride her or hope we don't play too many DH's. I am trying to remember if Graves and Glover were Mullins recruits or still Davis/Omara recruits. I think they were both Mullins recruits. Someone on a college softball message board asked me if the luster has worn off on Mullins, and I am still trying to come up with a response. I want to give her time to bring in her players, but the people that have been carrying the team over these last few years are Davis/Omara recruits - Affeldt, Rainey, Hartley. We have some big wins, but no consistency.
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Post by pctrojan16 on Mar 2, 2017 11:52:13 GMT -6
No #2 or #3 pitcher! Graves has emerged as the #1, so either we are going to have to ride her or hope we don't play too many DH's. I am trying to remember if Graves and Glover were Mullins recruits or still Davis/Omara recruits. I think they were both Mullins recruits. Someone on a college softball message board asked me if the luster has worn off on Mullins, and I am still trying to come up with a response. I want to give her time to bring in her players, but the people that have been carrying the team over these last few years are Davis/Omara recruits - Affeldt, Rainey, Hartley. We have some big wins, but no consistency. i loved what mullins brought in here at the start but now... idk anymore, cant get the big gun pitcher like we used to
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Post by pctrojan16 on Mar 6, 2017 14:41:39 GMT -6
started season 8-2, now 11-11, smh
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Post by sballalumni2 on Mar 6, 2017 15:24:53 GMT -6
I finally got to watch a game with an announcer on SEC+ on Sunday because they played LSU. They started Rigney and she got replaced in the 2nd inning by Graves. I don't know what happened, but Graves looked like she was seriously ticked at someone. Her body language looked mad, her pitches were flying crazy, and she didn't even hustle to cover home on a passed ball. I am totally suspecting that maybe she wanted the ball to start the game or maybe she was hurt and shouldn't have been in the game? It was really something strange to watch on TV. I wish someone that was at the game knew what was going on. LSU has more talent for sure, but I wish we would have competed a little better. We usually step up for the big games. Hartley led the game off with a triple and I was seriously excited for what may come. For anyone interested, you should be able to watch Tuesday nights game on SEC+ since they take on MS State. Please let them work out their pitching issues and come up with a victory.
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Post by quirk on Mar 7, 2017 8:56:39 GMT -6
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Post by cardinalblacktrojan on Mar 7, 2017 9:02:12 GMT -6
I haven't been very impressed with Mullins thus far. I feel like her recruiting hasn't been that great compared to Davis.
Mullins isn't a bad coach, but consistency has been a big problem. Pitching has been a big problem also.
I just want the softball team to go to the NCAA's!!! I feel like Troy was robbed back in 2006 when they went 41-20... they beat Georgia Tech, Auburn, won the series against a 40+ win FAU, and beat #9 ULL one time in a three game series... and got JIPPED.
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