The Terrific Ten has you covered on all the best highlights from all the action across college softball on Friday!
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1. The impressive upset wins continued for Stetson on Friday night with the Hatters taking down Georgia in a 2-1 win in Athens. Lauren Hobbs was masterful yet-again in the circle and limited the Bulldogs to one run on four hits while striking out six. It’s the latest big win for the Hatters, who also walked-off UCF at home and beat South Carolina in Columbia earlier this season.
2. Central Arkansas vs. Omaha had the potential to be an instant classic, a game between two teams who look very good in the season’s early goings. The game was a true pitcher’s duel between UCA ace Kayla Beaver and Omaha ace Kamryn Meyer, and it was the hosting Bears who eeked out the 1-0 win. Meyer had nine strikeouts and gave up four hits in the affair, as well as the one unearned run, while Beaver allowed just two hits with fourteen strikeouts.
3. Stony Brook slugger Corinne Badger had a stellar weekend at the plate in Miami last season and she put together a perfect do-over with similar results on day one of her team’s trip to Miami on Friday. Badger clubbed three home runs in a game against Stonehill, knocking longballs in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th innings and notching four RBIs to her credit.
4. Stanford pitcher Nijaree Canady is a freshman, but hasn’t looked much like one this season. She put together another stellar performance on Friday, notching eighteen strikeouts in a no-hitter against Villanova. It was the second career no-hitter for Canady, a college career that is all of four-weeks-long at this point, and her highest single-game strikeout total thus far.
5. With a couple of big-name teams in town for a tournament, Utah Tech got things started on the right foot on Friday, with a single, 5th-inning run proving the difference in a win over Oregon State. A Tanya Windle RBI single scored Sadie Gardner and the Trailblazers emerged victorious over their PAC-12 foe.
