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Thoughts on the scrimmage at Sam Houston State. We attacked the ball at the plate, we pitched all non starters from last year with Chaffin leading off and giving up a bomb but three good innings and three runs on the bomb. Casanova entered the game and struggled the first inning with a HBP followed by a walk then a bomb. She then settled down. She may turn out to be a great surprise in time. She is a 6’2” walk on pitcher with a 69 mph fast ball and a 45 mph change. She is a Beth project and it seems to be coming along well. Taylor Edward’s pitched well throwing close to 70 but still straight as an arrow no movement she also gave up a bomb. Stroud came to close out four outs and retired most all with pop ups.

The bats were hot and attacked with 7 HRs on a short porch field 190 in the corners 220 centerfield. I would guess 4 would defiantly been out at Tiger Park. Hitting bombs Pleasants, Clark, Stewart, Petty (2), Roudetey, Newland had a slam. Multiple players with multiple hits including Petty with 4 and Carson with two.

Saturday night the Tigers played Texas State and through 7 it was a 5-3 game with the freshmen pitchers throwing after Kilponen shut them down for three innings. Petty continues to impress with the stick and Berzon was outstanding.

Berzon had a nice night with 6k’s in three innings, this Texas State team is a decent team. But so hard to get a good read on anything due to half hitting and half fielding them flipping them around.

Final scrimmage score after 10 innings 9-3, I hate these long scrimmages……but everyone hit some playing time both nights.

Very positive with the effort on the weekend compared to last year when Okie State put it on us in the fall. They definitely moved them around in the field with no one get all the innings. Texas State had some quality arms just not too tough with the sticks.

Here are my notes:

Briggs BB
Stewart- single through infield
TP- walk
Clark- RBI single to left field
Carson- lined into DP at second
Petty- K

Kilponen-walk, 2 ground outs, pop up to third

2nd

Savoy- K
Housmanzada- soft pop up third
Giglio- line drive single to left, left early third out
Briggs-

Kilponen-K, pop up to third, hard line out to Briggs on the run

3 inning

Briggs- Ground out to third
Stewart- Ground out to short
TP- walk
Clark- pop up to third

Kilponen- K, BB, single to left, line out to 2nd into a DP.

4th inning 3-0 Tigers

Carson- hard single to right
Petty- 2 run HR
Savoy- line drive single to center
Houshmenzada- infield pop up
Giglio- bunt ground out
Briggs- pitcher ground out

Berzon- fly out with Briggs bring it back in the fence for the out, several illegal pitch calls due to leaving the glove twice, walk, WP runner to second, K, ground out

5th 5-0 Tigers

Stewart- BB, WP moves third
TP-HBP, WP moves to second
Clark- 2 RBI single thrown out at second
Carson- K
Petty- triple into left field corner
Savoy- K


Berzon- K, K, BB, K


6th inning 5-0 Tigers

Coffee- 6-3 ground out
Redoutey- hard line out to first
Newland- 4-3 ground out

Berzon- K, 5-3 ground out, single to center, WP move second, WP moved to third, K

7th Inning 5-3 Tigers WIN

Bergeron- K
Petty- F-6
Gutierrez- 5-3

Alea Johnson- K, BB, BB, single to Lft, bases loaded, BB run scores, Sac fly to center run scores runners held at 1st and 2nd, runner steals third no throw from catcher, single down the third base line scores one, walk bases loaded, K

Jada is ranked as the #6 Catcher in the 2024 class.

So do we have a total of 5 commits now for the 2024 class?

Wonder who it is

any stats on her?

No Stats but have seen her play a few times. Very good defender and a powerful batter.

Went back and looked for info on Jada Phillips. Her Twitter is also full of video. It looks like she competes in Olympic weightlifting and qualified for Nationals back in July. Power and explosiveness is not going to be an issue with her.

TWITTER

Can’t get everyone but that’s a nice pickup for them.

No you should let us know so we have realistic expectations lmao

Townsen Thomas is a great player WHEN she plays. She is injured A LOT though. Think she runs track and plays softball at high level so gets hurt often. Don't think she played at all this past summer or the summer before because of injuries.

Still, saw her and Jones were on the visit together. Was still hoping we got her along with Jones. Maybe with college guidance, workouts and health care the injuries would stop.