The Shockers head to Mobile for four games at the South Alabama Invitational hosted by the Jaguars. The Shocks play Dartmouth on Friday at noon, Bowling Green and South Alabama on Saturday at 1215pm and 415pm and Bowling Green again on Sunday at 10am.
The Dartmouth Big Green have been the Ivy League champions the past two years. They open their 2016 season at this tournament. Although the Ivy League does not do preseason conference rankings or preseason all-conference teams, the site collegesportsmadness.com does pick all-conference - for a large number of conferences. From Dartmouth, they chose Katie McEachern as the Player of the Year for the Ivy and Morgan McCalmon as Pitcher of the Year. Others on the first-team are Maddie Damore and Karen Chaw.
Bowling Green is a member of the twelve-team Mid-American Conference - six in the East Division and six in the West. The Falcons were a preseason pick for last in the East. They have a 3-5 record after tournaments at Cleveland State and Kennesaw (GA) State where they lost a game to Bradley. Their early season leaders on offense are Marisa Shook and Hayley Schrock, each with an OPS greater than 1.000. Shook has four homers and an OPS of 1.707. Kiley Sosby has half of the eight starts in the circle.
The host Jaguars, the reigning Sun Belt Conference tournament champions, are a pick for second place this year of the nine teams. Pitcher Devin Brown, infielder Emily Messer and outfielder Stephanie Pilkington were chosen for the pre-season all-conference team. Their current record is 6-4 with Messer having an OPS of 1.326. Both Brown and Destin Vicknair have an ERA just at or below 1.50.
The Shockers record is 4-6. The offensive leaders are PaigeL with an OPS of 1.353 and Liz at .993. Will Brittany be available for full-time duty this weekend? Kaitlyn and Jenni are getting most of the innings, but there has only been one complete game thus far in the season.
As of now, the LiveStats links appear only on the Jaguar schedule - eventually, we trust.
The Dartmouth Big Green have been the Ivy League champions the past two years. They open their 2016 season at this tournament. Although the Ivy League does not do preseason conference rankings or preseason all-conference teams, the site collegesportsmadness.com does pick all-conference - for a large number of conferences. From Dartmouth, they chose Katie McEachern as the Player of the Year for the Ivy and Morgan McCalmon as Pitcher of the Year. Others on the first-team are Maddie Damore and Karen Chaw.
Bowling Green is a member of the twelve-team Mid-American Conference - six in the East Division and six in the West. The Falcons were a preseason pick for last in the East. They have a 3-5 record after tournaments at Cleveland State and Kennesaw (GA) State where they lost a game to Bradley. Their early season leaders on offense are Marisa Shook and Hayley Schrock, each with an OPS greater than 1.000. Shook has four homers and an OPS of 1.707. Kiley Sosby has half of the eight starts in the circle.
The host Jaguars, the reigning Sun Belt Conference tournament champions, are a pick for second place this year of the nine teams. Pitcher Devin Brown, infielder Emily Messer and outfielder Stephanie Pilkington were chosen for the pre-season all-conference team. Their current record is 6-4 with Messer having an OPS of 1.326. Both Brown and Destin Vicknair have an ERA just at or below 1.50.
The Shockers record is 4-6. The offensive leaders are PaigeL with an OPS of 1.353 and Liz at .993. Will Brittany be available for full-time duty this weekend? Kaitlyn and Jenni are getting most of the innings, but there has only been one complete game thus far in the season.
As of now, the LiveStats links appear only on the Jaguar schedule - eventually, we trust.
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