With the NCAA basketball tournament play-in games still taking place today, I thought it would be a good idea to cover a little bit of softball news before we become totally focused on basketball for the rest of the week. My niece who is playing on her high school varsity team has had a couple of scrimmages already this year. Unfortunately, they have lost both of the games they have played, but my nieces performance has been pretty solid.
They seem to be making a lot of errors behind the plate and their pitching is still a little shaky this year. I chalk it up to early season jitters. I think those will go away eventually and before too long we will see some real production from the ladies.
Things like this are temporary. Meanwhile, now that the Tiffin Dragons are back from their Spring Break trip to Florida, they seem to have turned things around a bit and find themselves on a four game winning streak. Last weekend they had a double header sweep of the university that I graduated from Saginaw Valley State University. If it had been a home game for the Cardinals we likely would have driven over to watch.
Then, on Monday the Dragons had another double header sweep over the Grand Valley State University squad that is just across the state from where I live. From what I can see of the scores for all four games, the Tiffin pitching was totally on point with three shut outs and only one run given up across those four games. That's pretty dang impressive.
The bats seem to be hot as well with an average of four and a half runs scored per game. They have a couple of double headers this weekend starting on Friday with local rival University of Findlay on Friday and Thomas More University on Sunday. I will be trying to watch the streams in between basketball games.
The Radford Highlanders also find themselves on a winning streak with two victories in a Friday game over Gardner-Webb University on Friday. The first game went into extra innings before the Highlanders broke the tie in the 8th.
On Saturday they faced Gardner-Webb two more times racking up a 5 to 0 win in the first game and a 2 to 1 win in the second game.
Just this past Tuesday they faced Charlotte at home and they won that game 6 to 1. They are in action again today against UNC Greensboro in North Carolina.
The niece I mentioned above also has two more high school games this week that @mrsbozz and I will likely be streaming from the comfort of our couch. I'm looking forward to seeing if the Shamrocks can turn things around.
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