2017 Softball Season Thread

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Mar 19, 2017 1:34 pm

Cats beat the Beavers 7-4 in eight innings and sweep the series to start conference play 3-0.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:41 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:42 pm

The conference season is going to be brutal.

PieceOfMeat · Post by **PieceOfMeat** » Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:01 am

azgreg wrote:The conference season is going to be brutal.

Yeah it will. was nice to see them sweep up at oregon state to start it off.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:05 pm

Washington @ Arizona on PAC-12 Network right now.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:13 pm

Cats up 2-0 top of 5.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:46 pm

O'Toole pitches a no-hitter against #6 Washington as the Cats win game one 3-0.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 6:52 pm

Irish27 wrote:O'Toole pitches a no-hitter against #6 Washington as the Cats win game one 3-0.

It's her first no hitter.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:31 pm

Cats off to a hot start as they plate 3 in the bottom of the first and still batting. Bases loaded with one out.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:39 pm

6-0 Cats and still hitting in the first.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 12:42 pm

8-0 and still hitting in the first against the #6 ranked Huskies.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:58 pm

Cats beat #6 Washington 12-0 in five as Taylor pitches the shutout.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 2:44 pm

What an ass kicking.

az91 · Post by **az91** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:06 pm

This year's team may be the best since the glory years.

MrMeow · Post by **MrMeow** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:09 pm

az91 wrote:This year's team may be the best since the glory years.

You may be right. We have pitching, we have the bats, and the defense is just precision. Very impressive!

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 2:04 pm

Cats beat the Huskies 5-2 and sweep the series. Mike Candrea earns his 1500 win.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 2:06 pm

az91 wrote:This year's team may be the best since the glory years.

Best team since the 2001 club.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:19 pm

shimdic · Post by **shimdic** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:50 am

Irish27 wrote:
az91 wrote:This year's team may be the best since the glory years.
Best team since the 2001 club.

I don't want to buy into the hype because of what happened with basketball this year.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:06 pm

Cats are now ranked 4th in the country and also received 2 first-place votes.
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/softball/d ... ca-coaches" target="_blank

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:07 pm

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/florida-so ... 48904.html

Do you really believe the coaches explanation???

Curious to see if SEC does anything

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:30 am

Cats take two from Grand Canyon yesterday, next up at Cal this weekend.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 6:33 am

Nice story on Danielle O'Toole and her brother Michael. It's nice to see how close they are and how she looked over him when growing up.
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/3502 ... connection" target="_blank

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:28 pm

After 4 Cats up 5-0 at Cal.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:42 pm

We are like 37-1 right.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:45 pm

azcat49 wrote:We are like 37-1 right.

34-1 and 6-0 in the PAC 12

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:53 pm

the home series against Oregon on the 21-23 of April will be big.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:38 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Fri Mar 31, 2017 10:02 pm

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:59 pm

Cats take game 2 against Cal 6-0 as McQuillin pitches a 2-hit shutout. Mauga went deep for her 12th homer of the year.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 3:28 pm

Cats beat Cal 6-1 and complete the sweep. O'Toole picked up the win and Jessie Harper hit her 12th homer to lead the team.

threenumberones · Post by **threenumberones** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:17 am

Steamrollin..love it.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:56 am

#1 in the RPI right now.

az91 · Post by **az91** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 10:34 pm

shimdic wrote:
Irish27 wrote:
az91 wrote:This year's team may be the best since the glory years.
Best team since the 2001 club.

I don't want to buy into the hype because of what happened with basketball this year.

The softball team is more deserving of hype than the basketball team was.

MrBug708 · Post by **MrBug708** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:41 pm

Oregon vs Arizona should be a good series, when it happens. I dont think they escape UCLA undefeated, but they should still beat the Bruins 2 outta 3

Frybry02 · Post by **Frybry02** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:43 pm

13-0 after 1. Cats hit 5 HRs in the first. Harper hit 2 blasts in the first

prh · Post by **prh** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:31 pm

Frybry02 wrote:13-0 after 1. Cats hit 5 HRs in the first. Harper hit 2 blasts in the first

18-0 after 3 wow

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:07 pm

PieceOfMeat · Post by **PieceOfMeat** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:12 pm

I almost felt bad for stanford.
almost.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 10:20 pm

Looking over the PAC 12 standings...And it just dawned on me for the first time ever that USC doesn't have a softball team. What gives? Every major college out west or in the south in warm areas has a softball team. It's weird.

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 11:43 pm

azgreg wrote:The conference season is going to be brutal.

I see what you did there. Clever. Good job!

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:08 am

I can't wait until Oregon comes to town on April 21st. Btw, the Ducks lost for the first time last night, as UCLA beat them 2-0.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:33 am

ASUHATER! wrote:Looking over the PAC 12 standings...And it just dawned on me for the first time ever that USC doesn't have a softball team. What gives? Every major college out west or in the south in warm areas has a softball team. It's weird.

I think they decided to invest the scholarships into women's water polo instead. What pisses me off is Colorado doesn't have baseball or softball (the only school to have neither). I know Boulder is not exactly known for having a very warm climate, but hell Utah has both sports and neither is Salt Lake City. I'm curious how Wazzu has baseball, but not softball as well.

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:40 am

ChooChooCat wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:Looking over the PAC 12 standings...And it just dawned on me for the first time ever that USC doesn't have a softball team. What gives? Every major college out west or in the south in warm areas has a softball team. It's weird.
I think they decided to invest the scholarships into women's water polo instead. What pisses me off is Colorado doesn't have baseball or softball (the only school to have neither). I know Boulder is not exactly known for having a very warm climate, but hell Utah has both sports and neither is Salt Lake City. I'm curious how Wazzu has baseball, but not softball as well.

The weather in Boulder is just fine for baseball and softball. No excuses there. There's a good chance they use the schollies for skiing.

ChooChooCat · Post by **ChooChooCat** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:46 am

Puerco wrote:
ChooChooCat wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:Looking over the PAC 12 standings...And it just dawned on me for the first time ever that USC doesn't have a softball team. What gives? Every major college out west or in the south in warm areas has a softball team. It's weird.
I think they decided to invest the scholarships into women's water polo instead. What pisses me off is Colorado doesn't have baseball or softball (the only school to have neither). I know Boulder is not exactly known for having a very warm climate, but hell Utah has both sports and neither is Salt Lake City. I'm curious how Wazzu has baseball, but not softball as well.
The weather in Boulder is just fine for baseball and softball. No excuses there. There's a good chance they use the schollies for skiing.

Ahhh that's right, I forgot their skiing dominance. Does anybody else participate in that sport outside of CU and Denver U? Serious question.

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:13 am

ChooChooCat wrote:
Puerco wrote:
ChooChooCat wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:Looking over the PAC 12 standings...And it just dawned on me for the first time ever that USC doesn't have a softball team. What gives? Every major college out west or in the south in warm areas has a softball team. It's weird.
I think they decided to invest the scholarships into women's water polo instead. What pisses me off is Colorado doesn't have baseball or softball (the only school to have neither). I know Boulder is not exactly known for having a very warm climate, but hell Utah has both sports and neither is Salt Lake City. I'm curious how Wazzu has baseball, but not softball as well.
The weather in Boulder is just fine for baseball and softball. No excuses there. There's a good chance they use the schollies for skiing.
Ahhh that's right, I forgot their skiing dominance. Does anybody else participate in that sport outside of CU and Denver U? Serious question.

Eh there's new Hampshire and Vermont and Boston college and Dartmouth and Wisconsin green bay and Alaska Fairbanks and northen michigan and Wyoming and New Mexico and Montana State do as well.

prh · Post by **prh** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:55 am

ChooChooCat wrote:
Puerco wrote:
ChooChooCat wrote:
ASUHATER! wrote:Looking over the PAC 12 standings...And it just dawned on me for the first time ever that USC doesn't have a softball team. What gives? Every major college out west or in the south in warm areas has a softball team. It's weird.
I think they decided to invest the scholarships into women's water polo instead. What pisses me off is Colorado doesn't have baseball or softball (the only school to have neither). I know Boulder is not exactly known for having a very warm climate, but hell Utah has both sports and neither is Salt Lake City. I'm curious how Wazzu has baseball, but not softball as well.
The weather in Boulder is just fine for baseball and softball. No excuses there. There's a good chance they use the schollies for skiing.
Ahhh that's right, I forgot their skiing dominance. Does anybody else participate in that sport outside of CU and Denver U? Serious question.

Utah is very serious about skiing too. And the weather here is decent enough for baseball and softball, although I think they have a lot of road trips prior to conference play (like northern baseball schools do). Baseball here is aided by playing in the minor league ballpark in town.

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:55 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:08 pm

They are a machine right now. Just destroying everyone.

qwertyus · Post by **qwertyus** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:28 pm

To be fair, I only started following UA softball a little bit 2 years ago when I caught a game on P12 network, but I have not seen a team this dominant. Softball seems to me to be very hit/miss, with teams sometimes getting on a roll, but nobody DOMINATING the space. But this year the Cats aren't just beating teams, they're CRUSHING them. We'll see what happens when Oregon comes to town, but I've got some high hopes for this team. When you've got so much power, it really frees up the rest of the team (at least from my baseball experiences, whenever we were raking, we all felt looser because we know that one run allowed won't kill us).

To be fair, I only played Little League and Seniors (LL, but 15-16 y.o, I wasn't good enough for HS ball, couldn't hit well), so take that suggestion with a grain of salt!

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