Softball: Injuries fail to break 'Cats top baserunner's streak
By Bart Logan | June 1, 2011If stealing bases were a crime, Jillian Van Wagnen would be locked up longer than Bernie Madoff.
If stealing bases were a crime, Jillian Van Wagnen would be locked up longer than Bernie Madoff.
John Mollica has never known what it feels like to glide across a sheet of ice on his own two feet. But at just 16 years old, he is one of the most accomplished athletes in the region.
Ohio’s softball season may be over, but for assistant coach Sharonda McDonald, the onset of summer marks a new beginning.
Injuries and record rainfall threatened to derail the expectations for a Bobcat team that came into the season with high expectations and one of the most experienced rosters in the conference.
After mounting one magical comeback after another throughout the weekend, there were no rabbits left for the Bobcats to pull out of their hats in the deciding games Sunday afternoon.
It should have been the proudest performance of Central Michigan pitcher Kari Seddon’s career.
Just before the first pitch of Wednesday’s first-round tournament match-up, Miami starter Jessica Simpson was named Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year. Apparently the Bobcats didn’t get the memo.
There was no liftoff in Toledo this weekend. Emily Wethington grounded more Rockets than NASA.
As a freshman, she took the Mid-American Conference by storm.
It seemed harmless enough when Bobcats catcher Jordan Paden was plunked in the hand in the second inning of a 4-2 loss to Central Michigan back on April 22. Paden took her base and finished out the second inning, but she has not played an inning since.