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Softball Archive
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Tucson high school pitchers keeping UA softball on top
When Mike Candrea put Stacy Iveson on his coaching staff in July, he added some great talent and experience to the University of Arizona softball program. But a significant added-value benefit became obvious when Estela Pinon signed her letter of intent to play for the Wildcats. The young pitcher led her Yavapai College team to [...] -
Local prep stars making GCU softball a family affair
Ann Pierson isn’t settling for tapping into a pipeline of local high school talent to fill her softball roster at Grand Canyon University. Now she’s tapping into the families. Pierson, the head coach at GCU who started the softball program at the Division II college in west Phoenix eight years ago, just signed four more [...] -
GCU softball roster for 2012 is almost 100% local talent
Danielle Legee must feel at times like she’s a newcomer to a foreign land, rather than a recruit to a college softball team. Legee is a pitcher for Grand Canyon University. The sophomore comes from Labanon, but not Lebanon the country in Western Asia – Labanon the city in Oregon. But the import from Duck [...] -
UA hiring coup: Stacy Iveson joins softball coaching staff
Mike Candrea just finalized one of the biggest recruiting coups for his University of Arizona softball program. But this ‘recruit’ will make her contributions on the bench rather than on the field. Candrea, the Wildcats 26-year head coach, today announced the return of Stacy Iveson to the nationally-ranked program. Iveson made her mark as a [...] -
ASU downs Florida in 2 straight to win NCAA softball title
ASU fans had one of those ‘uh-oh’ moments last night when left fielder Talor Haro went all the way to the fence to pull in the second out of the first inning – but too far away from home plate to keep Florida second baseman Michelle Moultrie from tagging up and scoring. Moultrie had doubled [...] -
Escobedo leads ASU vs. Florida for national softball title
Depending on how you want to look at it, the match-up with the Florida Gators in tonight’s series opener for the NCAA softball championship is either a bad omen for Arizona State – or an opportunity to settle a score. The Sun Devils have to be thinking about last year as they prepare for the [...] -
ASU drops Sooners, 3-1, on march to nat’l softball title
If Oklahoma hadn’t made a couple of defensive miscues in the fourth inning, Katelyn Boyd‘s solo home run in the fifth would have made her the hero of Arizona State’s opening game of the Women’s College World Series. Instead, her 18th round trip of the season, over the left field fence at ASA Hall of [...] -
Cron, Haeger records make 2011 the ‘Year of the Long Ball’
The 2011 baseball/softball season may go down in the Arizona high school record books as The Year of the Long Ball. Home-run records were set in both sports. Or perhaps it should be The Year of the Dual-Threat Pitcher. Both of the players who set new home-run records this season are pitchers. Not just wannabe [...] -
UA misses first trip to College World Series in 22 years
How ironic. Arizona State’s first opponent in the Women’s College World Series will be Oklahoma – the school that just eliminated ASU’s in-state rival, University of Arizona, in the Super Regional. This may be the first time ever that the Wildcat squad will actually be rooting for a win by the No. 1 Sun Devils. [...] -
ASU going to softball World Series; UA must win 2 today
What a difference a year can make in college sports. Last year, the No. 1 Arizona State softball team lost two straight games to Florida in the Super Regionals to end their chance to get to the Women’s College World Series. Yesterday, they finished a two-game sweep of No. 16 Texas A&M to punch their [...]
