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Softball Archive
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Yavapai College falls short of 2nd straight national title
Lightning did not strike twice for the Yavapai College softball team. Last year, they were able to beat Wallace State Community College to claim their first NJCAA national title. But this year they couldn’t get past the Alabama squad, losing 8-4 in today’s semi-final. Wallace State will play for the national title while Yavapai returns [...] -
Pitching will rule in tonight’s 5A softball championships
Softball at any level is a game of pitching. The teams with a dominant pitcher go on, those without, go home. And that pretty much sums up what we expect to see tonight in the 5A-II championship games. But the 5A-I game will match up two of the state’s best pitchers, and then it comes [...] -
Yavapai softball wins NJCAA region; baseball in title game
The Yavapai College softball team wrapped up their third straight NJCAA Region I championship on Saturday. This will be the third straight national tournament appearance for the defending national champions from Prescott. They plodded through the regional tournament, opening with a 2-1 win over Central Arizona College and moving on to wins over Arizona Western, [...] -
UA coasting, but is ASU softball running out of gas?
The ASU softball team is like a stagecoach using just one horse to draw it. And that horse is getting tired. Over the weekend, the Sun Devils (40-13) lost two of three games to lowly Oregon State, making them just a .500 team in the Pac-10 standings at 9-9. The Beavers (24-28) had won just [...] -
Yavapai softball hits the road to defend national title
The top-seeded Yavapai College baseball team will hunker down on its own field and host No. 4 seed Cochise College tomorrow in the opener to Region I play. But the softball team, seeded second, will begin defense of its national title in Tucson for a Friday Region opener against No. 3 seed Central Arizona College. [...] -
Softball records, fleeting fame as HS season winds down
The high school softball season is winding down toward the state playoffs, but it’s going out with a flourish… lots of history being made. The Chandler Wolves set the new school mark for runs scored in a single inning when they piled up 16 against Marcos de Niza HS. And the amazing part of that [...] -
‘Lopes celebrate rise to No. 2 with 30-run doubleheader
The Grand Canyon University softball team climbed to No. 2 in the latest Pacific West Conference poll. And just in time, since the season is winding down this weekend. The No. 19 Antelopes began their season-ending series with a doubleheader today against visiting Notre Dame de Namur. And they did it in high style, scoring [...] -
ASU baseball, softball makin’ history… but not all good
There’s a first time for everything. That’s especially true in sports. And this past weekend was full of first-time opportunities for the Arizona State baseball and softball programs. Some good, some not so good. The ‘good’ included the softball team’s sweep of No. 5 UCLA at Westwood, the first time in the program’s history that [...] -
ACCAC softball heats up as 3 teams eye 2 playoff spots
Just a couple of weeks ago, things were pretty tight in the ACCAC softball race. Four teams were within a game of each other at the top of the standings. Since then, Pima CC and Yavapai College have been taking care of business. They are both 20-4, tied for first, and well ahead of the [...] -
ASU softball comes back with a vengeance for 11-1 win
What goes around comes around. It didn’t take the ASU softball team long to recover from the 12-6 beat-down it got in Thursday’s series opener with University of Arizona. The Sun Devils were almost run-ruled by the Cats in the opener before a Katelyn Boyd homer pushed them past the tipping point. Maybe that’s what [...]
