Bear Down Wildcats

The last couple of years has not been up to Arizona softball standards, but this year's team has a good chance to get back to the College World Series. The offense is going to be explosive, led by Chelsea Goodacre and Hallie Wilson. Would not be surprised if Chelsea leads the country in home runs. Kellie Fox, Mo Mercado and Katiyana Mauga will provide power in the line-up.

Pitching has been a disappointment the past 3-4 years but this year the Cats have depth. It will be interesting to see who becomes the #1 pitcher. I believe Nancy Bowling or Michelle Floyd have the best chance to become the ace. Waiting in the wings is freshman Trish Parks. A wild card could be San Diego State transfer Danielle O'Toole. She was the Mountain West Pitcher of the Year last year and I have not found anything if she has to redshirt this year or not. If she is eligible for this season, that just makes this team even better.

Here is the 2015 schedule:
http://www.arizonawildcats.com/pdf9/308 ... M_ID=30700

2015 Arizona Softball Schedule
Friday, Feb. 6 5:00 p.m. Oklahoma State Tucson
Saturday, Feb.7 2:00 p.m. Oklahoma State Tucson
Sunday, Feb. 8 12:00 p.m. Oklahoma State Tucson
Thursday, Feb. 12 5:00 p.m. Drake! Tucson
Friday, Feb. 13 4:00 p.m. Loyola Marymount! Tucson
Friday, Feb. 13 6:00 p.m. Wright State! Tucson
Saturday, Feb. 14 4:00 p.m. San Jose State! Tucson
Saturday, Feb. 14 6:00 p.m. Loyola Chicago! Tucson
Sunday, Feb. 15 1:00 p.m. Drake! Tucson
Thursday, Feb. 19 10:30 a.m. Kentucky# Cathedral City, Calif.
Thursday, Feb. 19 1:00 p.m. Oklahoma# Cathedral City, Calif.
Friday, Feb. 20 3:30 p.m. LSU# Cathedral City, Calif.
Friday, Feb. 20 6:00 p.m. Northwestern# Cathedral City, Calif.
Saturday, Feb. 21 2:30 p.m. Missouri# Cathedral City, Calif.
Thursday, Feb. 26 5:00 p.m. Bryant$ Tucson
Friday, Feb. 27 4:00 p.m. Colorado State$ Tucson
Friday, Feb. 27 6:00 p.m. UTEP$ Tucson
Saturday, Feb. 28 4:00 p.m. UC Riverside$ Tucson
Saturday, Feb. 28 6:00 p.m. UT Arlington$ Tucson
Sunday, Feb. 29 1:00 p.m. Bryant$ Tucson
Wednesday, March 4 12:00 p.m. UNLV Tucson
Wednesday, March 4 2:00 p.m. UNLV Tucson
Friday, March 6 10:00 a.m. Florida% Fullerton, Calif.
Friday, March 6 5:30 p.m. Auburn% Fullerton, Calif.
Saturday, March 7 7:30 p.m. Long Beach State% Fullerton, Calif.
Sunday, March 8 12:00 p.m. Baylor% Fullerton, Calif.
Sunday, March 8 2:30 p.m. Fresno State% Fullerton, Calif.
Friday, March 13 3:00 p.m. at California* Berkeley, Calif.
Saturday, March 14 12:00 p.m. at California* Berkeley, Calif. Pac-12 Networks
Sunday, March 15 4:00 p.m. at California* Berkeley, Calif. Pac-12 Networks
Wednesday, March 18 4:30 p.m. Connecticut^ San Diego, Calif.
Wednesday, March 18 7:00 p.m. at San Diego State^ San Diego, Calif.
Saturday, March 21 12:00 p.m. at New Mexico State Las Cruces, N.M.
Saturday, March 21 2:00 p.m. at New Mexico State Las Cruces, N.M.
Friday, March 27 5:00 p.m. Arizona State* Tucson Pac-12 Networks
Saturday, March 28 2:00 p.m. Arizona State* Tucson Pac-12 Networks
Sunday, March 29 6:00 p.m. Arizona State* Tucson Pac-12 Networks
Thursday, April 2 3:00 p.m. at Oregon State* Corvallis, Ore. Pac-12 Networks
Friday, April 3 3:00 p.m. at Oregon State* Corvallis, Ore. Pac-12 Networks
Saturday, April 4 12:00 p.m. at Oregon State* Corvallis, Ore. Pac-12 Networks
Friday, April 10 6:00 p.m. Washington* Tucson
Saturday, April 11 7:30 p.m. Washington* Tucson Pac-12 Networks
Sunday, April 12 2:00 p.m. Washington* Tucson Pac-12 Networks
Friday, April 17 4:00 p.m. at Utah* Salt Lake City, Utah Pac-12 Networks
Saturday, April 18 3:30 p.m. at Utah* Salt Lake City, Utah Pac-12 Networks
Sunday, April 19 11:00 a.m. at Utah* Salt Lake City, Utah Pac-12 Networks
Friday, April 24 6:00 p.m. Stanford* Tucson
Saturday, April 25 6:00 p.m. Stanford* Tucson
Sunday, April 26 12:00 p.m. Stanford* Tucson
Friday, May 1 5:00 p.m. at UCLA* Los Angeles, Calif. Pac-12 Networks
Saturday, May 2 2:00 p.m. at UCLA* Los Angeles, Calif. ESPNU
Sunday, May 3 7:00 p.m. at UCLA* Los Angeles, Calif. Pac-12 Networks
Thursday, May 7 7:00 p.m. Oregon* Tucson Pac-12 Networks
Friday, May 8 4:00 p.m. Oregon* Tucson Pac-12 Networks
Saturday, May 9 8:30 p.m. Oregon* Tucson ESPN
Saturday, May 16-Sunday, May 17 TBA NCAA Regionals TBA
Saturday, May 22-Sunday May 23 TBA NCAA Super Regionals TBA
Thursday, May 28-Wednesday, June 3 TBA
Women’s College World Series
Oklahoma City, Okla

The season begins one week from today at home against Oklahoma State. Expectations are high for this year.

Season starts tonight as the #14 Wildcats host Oklahoma State for three games this weekend. Watch here.
http://pac-12.com/videos/university-arizona-2

Trish Parks first college at-bat hits a 2-run homer and the Cats are up 3-1 in the bottom of the 2nd.

Fox homers and the Cats are up 6-1 after two. I think this could be Candrea's best offensive team, even better than the 2001 team.

Cats up 12-1 after three.

Cats beat Oklahoma State 12-2 in 4.5 innings. Game 2 tomorrow.

Cats win again today:
Parks Tosses Two-Hit Shutout as Cats Win 5-0
http://www.arizonawildcats.com/ViewArti ... =209880259

Cats go dor the sweep today. Bowling starts and throws one inning and Phillips pitches the second. I wonder why Michelle Floyd has not pitched yet? Anyone know if she is hurt?

Cats were down 3-2 in the bottom of the 8th with two on and two outs when Ashleigh Hughes pinch hits and drives in both runners as the Cats win 4-3 and sweep Oklahoma State.

Cats beat Drake 6-1 as Parks gets the win. The one run was unearned.

Cats win 10-1 over Loyola Marymount and improve to 5-0 this year. They play Wright State later tonight.

Cats beat Wright State 22-1. Even though the competition has not been that great, the pitching is ahead of what it was last year. I knew this offense was going to be really good. Parks is off to a great start.

It would be excellent to return to the national scene in softball. I have always found it to be one of the most entertaining of the "minor" sports, along with soccer. Quite frankly, it is more exciting to watch than baseball, and I am a baseball fan.

Plus, it is really fun to have one last sport to follow into the early "summer" (not seasonally, but by temp and end of school year). I don't think Lopez has a CWS run in the BatCats this year, so Candrea's squad is the team to watch.

Plus, dudes dig the long ball...and we seem to have that covered

Any scores from todays games??

illcat wrote:Any scores from todays games??

Thanks UAEebs.

Cats beat Drake 8-0 behind the pitching of Nancy Bowling. The Wildcats are now 9-0 on the season.

Cats lose their first game of the year, falling 5-2 to Kentucky. Trish Parks took the loss. Cats then played #3 Oklahoma and won 5-4 on a Kellie Fox walk-off homer. Michelle Floyd pitched 5.1 innings of shutout ball and got the win. Nice to see the Cats beat former Cat Shelby Pendley.

Cats lose to #13 LSU 4-3 and then beat Northwestern 7-6.

Yesterday they lost to #1 Florida 10-0, and Auburn 20-2.

Ouch.

UAEebs86 wrote:Yesterday they lost to #1 Florida 10-0, and Auburn 20-2.

Ouch.

yeah, that wasn't a good day.

worst loss in school history I think is what I read.

I hate to say this, cause usually I'm the guy who thinks we always have a chance....but....this year, I don't think we have a chance.

Arizona lost to Baylor 9-1 today. Right now they are ahead of Fresno State 4-0 in the 4th.

Arizona beat Fresno State 7-1 today.

well this softball home game vs assu ..... let's just say I regret tuning in.

already given up 5 runs in the top of the 7th. we went into it with a 1 run lead, now down 4.

for fucks sake.

oh and it's on the pac12 network if anyone's interested.

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and we lose 8-5. sigh

Love those Devils!!!!

well cats lost yesterday too. so down 2 games in the 3 game series

playing tonight at 6pm tucson time on pac12 channel if anyone is interested to watch.

i might tune in (via stream of course) if I'm awake.

well I managed to sleep through the game, but the Cats got a small measure of revenge, thumping assu 11-1 today.

Kicked some butt in sweeping at oregon state this weekend.

After a 10 run first inning, Cats down UW 14-6 in 5 innings to start this weekend's series off the right way.

Pitching, Pitching, Pitching.

sigh

Cats lose to UW 9-8 tonight.

Cat's bounce back with a 18-10 win this afternoon.

azgreg wrote:Cat's bounce back with a 18-10 win this afternoon.

Yeah, not a whole lot of good pitching in this weekend's series

This team will go as far as the offense performs.

Irish27 wrote:This team will go as far as the offense performs.

Thinking regionals is the ceiling?

azgreg wrote:

Irish27 wrote:This team will go as far as the offense performs.

Thinking regionals is the ceiling?

I'd imagine we have a good shot at going to some team's hosted Super Regional and losing there. It all depends on who we match up with in the regionals of course.

PieceOfMeat wrote:

azgreg wrote:

Irish27 wrote:This team will go as far as the offense performs.

Thinking regionals is the ceiling?

I'd imagine we have a good shot at going to some team's hosted Super Regional and losing there. It all depends on who we match up with in the regionals of course.

They are not guaranteed a regional, need to win more series. Next year this team won't be as powerful on the offensive side, but they will have two new starting pitchers who should be an upgrade.

Irish27 wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:

azgreg wrote:

Irish27 wrote:This team will go as far as the offense performs.

Thinking regionals is the ceiling?

I'd imagine we have a good shot at going to some team's hosted Super Regional and losing there. It all depends on who we match up with in the regionals of course.

They are not guaranteed a regional, need to win more series. Next year this team won't be as powerful on the offensive side, but they will have two new starting pitchers who should be an upgrade.

Oh, I wasn't meaning to imply we're going to host a regional, was simply stating that I doubt we'll be hosting a Super, and thus would go on the road and most likely lose to a pretty good team. I think the team has enough to win in a Regional though, and even with sometimes streaky hitting, I'm sure there aren't too many teams out there who would love to see us as their regional opponent.

Lost 2 of 3 at Utah.

smh.

Destroyed Furd in 3 straight games this weekend.

ucla destroyed us in 3 straight (2 run ruled) games over the weekend.

PieceOfMeat wrote:ucla destroyed us in 3 straight (2 run ruled) games over the weekend.

Kellie Fox had 5 errors in the game and only 4 of the 15 runs were earned. Probably need a sweep this week to have a chance to host a regional.

Irish27 wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:ucla destroyed us in 3 straight (2 run ruled) games over the weekend.

Kellie Fox had 5 errors in the game and only 4 of the 15 runs were earned. Probably need a sweep this week to have a chance to host a regional.

Definitely need a sweep

PieceOfMeat wrote:ucla destroyed us in 3 straight (2 run ruled) games over the weekend.

I watched some of the games. I would love a pitcher like Ally Carda on the team.

Cats lose game one to #1 Oregon on Thursday but come back and beat them yesterday. Rubber match tonight and the game is on ESPNU at 8:30PM.

Irish27 wrote:Cats lose game one to #1 Oregon on Thursday but come back and beat them yesterday. Rubber match tonight and the game is on ESPNU at 8:30PM.

Oregon up 7-0 after the top of the first.

Yeesh.

PieceOfMeat wrote:

Irish27 wrote:Cats lose game one to #1 Oregon on Thursday but come back and beat them yesterday. Rubber match tonight and the game is on ESPNU at 8:30PM.

Oregon up 7-0 after the top of the first.

Yeesh.

Guess this will probably be the last home game for the seniors.

Irish27 wrote:

PieceOfMeat wrote:

Irish27 wrote:Cats lose game one to #1 Oregon on Thursday but come back and beat them yesterday. Rubber match tonight and the game is on ESPNU at 8:30PM.

Oregon up 7-0 after the top of the first.

Yeesh.

Guess this will probably be the last home game for the seniors.

Yeah, seems like it.

Hopefully next year Taylor McQuillin and Danielle O'Toole can bring some stability to the pitching staff. I wonder if Floyd will want to stay on the team and who knows if Bowling will be back, she took a leave from the team earlier due to personal reasons.